Danielle O’Neill

Danielle O’Neill received her MS degree in Ecological Teaching and Learning from Lesley University, Cambridge and a BS in Secondary Science Education from the University of Maine, Orono. Her career path has included over a decade as a formal high school science educator, informal environmental science educator and assistant education director at a Minnesota private non-profit organization, MN 4-H county program coordinator, adjunct professor at Concordia University, and education director with Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H Camp and Learning Centers. Through these experiences she developed grant writing and marketing skills that provided organizational support and increased public awareness, while building community engagement and fostering new partnerships to strengthen program depth and breadth. As Assistant Director of Research Development for Faculty Outreach and Education, she provides targeted outreach to build skills in identifying funding opportunities and grant proposal development, as well as cohort-based professional development programs designed to build transdisciplinary collaborative relationships across UMS.