UMaine’s Events & Hospitality Office was named the 2022 Planner’s Choice winner for Expos and Trade Shows in the United States by Unique Venues. Unique Venues is an industry leader in working with unique planners like universities, arboretums, museums and other unique spaces. Runners-up in this category were MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey […]
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Deborah Bouchard and Meggan Dwyer from the University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute (ARI) chaired a session about Maine’s aquaculture sector at Aquaculture America, the largest national aquaculture conference, Feb. 23–26 in New Orleans. Speakers from the University of Maine, Educate Maine, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Long Cove Sea Farms, Colby College, and […]
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Victor Ortega-Jimenez, assistant professor of integrative avian biology and biomechanics, presented at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting in Las Vegas, Nev., on March 6. Ortega-Jimenez’s presentation, “Fatal attraction: Electrostatic forces pull jumping nematodes directly to their charged prey,” was with former colleagues at Georgia Tech, Sunny Kumar and Saad Bhamla.
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Shane Moeykens has been nominated and accepted to serve on the EPSCoR/IDeA Foundation Board of Directors. The national nonprofit strives to increase the quality of research and research capacity within EPSCoR/IDeA jurisdictions like Maine. Moeykens will help grow science and technology enterprises across the United States through improvements to university research infrastructure and jurisdictions’ research […]
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Kayla Parsons, registered dietitian nutritionist, a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Maine, and Graduate Assistant on UMaine School of Nursing’s WellNurse research study, was invited to participate in the national Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) Well-Being Workshop Series on April 10 at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. Parson’s workshop, […]
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Caitlin Howell, associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Maine, was awarded a 2023 Gilbreth Lectureship from the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). NAE established the Gilbreth Lectures in 2001 in honor of Lillian Gilbreth, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1965. The lectureship recognizes outstanding young American […]
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Sandra Caron, professor of family relations and sexuality at the University of Maine, is the 2023 inductee into the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame. The Maine Women’s Hall of Fame recognizes those whose achievements have had a significant statewide impact, significantly improved the lives of women in Maine, and contributed an enduring value for women. […]
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Michael Socolow, associate professor at the University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism, won an essay contest sponsored by the academic journal Journalism History on the topic of the history and importance of television over the last 60 years, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of TV news coverage of the assassination of John […]
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Christopher Richards, director of undergraduate enrollment at the University of Maine, was invited to serve as a member of the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Selection Committee earlier this month. Richards served on a 14-member committee to select the finalists of 2023 National Merit Scholarships from an estimated 15,000 semifinalists. The UMaine alumnus and native of […]
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Tolu Esther Alaba, Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Biological Science and Engineering at the University of Maine, received the Junior Investigator Speaker Award and third place Poster Award at the Berry Health Benefits Symposium (BHBS) Ninth Biennial Conference in Tampa, Florida for her work entitled “Phenolic acids from wild blueberry facilitate wound healing […]
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