UMaine News

The Journal of Extension’s Special Issue on Innovation 2018 (Sept. 2018, Vol. 56, No. 5) published an article by University of Maine Cooperative Extension staff members Laura Wilson and Gregory Kranich, 4-H science youth development professionals, and Jennifer Lobley, an Extension professor of volunteer development and 4-H. The title of the article is “Follow a […]

Amber Tierney, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maine, was interviewed for a Vanderbilt Television News Archive video as part of their 50th anniversary celebration. Tierney spoke about using data from the Archive for her research, which focuses on social and criminal justice and how activists leverage the media to press for […]

Steve Barkan, professor and interim chair of the Department of Sociology, will serve on the Advisory Board of the American Sociological Association Honors Program, which accepts outstanding students nationwide to participate in several activities at the ASA national conference in August.

Karyn Sporer, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maine, had a book chapter published in the Criminalization of Mental Illness Reader (K. Frailing and R. Slate, Eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2018, pp. 85–106). Her chapter is titled “Family Violence and Mental Illness.” The chapter’s focus is the experiences of families in getting […]

Pankaj Agrrawal, an associate professor of finance at the University of Maine, was a co-author on the paper “Is the ‘sell in May and go away’ adage the result of an election-year effect?” published in Managerial Finance, 44 (9): May 2018. The paper shows there is a certain repetition of the effect of summer doldrums […]

Kevin Birch, an organ player and instructor of organ and harpsichord at the University of Maine, will perform in an organ recital titled “The George Stevens Organ (1848) at The First Church in Belfast, A Guided Tour and Demonstration Recital.” The recital, part of the church’s continuing celebration of its 200th anniversary, will be held […]

University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator Tori Jackson recently received the 2018 Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents at its annual meeting and conference held July 29–Aug. 2 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The award is given to Extension educators with more than 10 years of service in Extension who have exhibited […]

University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator Lakesh Sharma received the 2018 Achievement Award from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents at its annual meeting and conference held July 29–Aug. 2 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The award is given to Extension educators with fewer than 10 years of service who have exhibited excellence in the field […]