Faculty & Staff News Archive
Robert Lenox to serve as invited speaker at American Psychiatric Association annual meeting
Robert H. Lenox, M.D., professor of pharmacology and clinical neuroscience at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, has been invited to present a Distinguished Psychiatry Lecture titled “CNS Drug Discovery & Development: Problems, Promises & Partnering” at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in San Francisco in May, 2013.
Lenox has had a distinguished academic, drug discovery, research and teaching career for over 25 years as a respected psychiatrist and neuroscientist with continuous NIH grant funding and more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, as well as reviews and book chapters, in the fields of molecular neuropharmacology and clinical psychopharmacology. He is also the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and honors that recognize his contributions to medicine, including the NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award, Editor-in-Chief of Neuropsychopharmacology, Life Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Posted on: 4/08/2013
Anouar Majid invited to talk about his creative process at Yale conference
Scholar and novelist Anouar Majid, Ph.D., UNE associate provost for global initiatives and director of the Center for Global Humanities, was an invited participant in a conference at Yale University titled “Beyond French: New Languages for African Diasporic Literature" March 29-30, 2013.
“In recent years, Africans from former French colonies in both the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan regions have been settling in countries other than France and writing in languages other than French,” write the conference organizers. “This break with the colonial and postcolonial habits of la Françafrique — the familiar bind of metropole and colony — has been going on for years and is now ripe for analysis. Writing in German, Italian, Dutch, Catalan, Spanish, English, and other languages, these authors suggest new patterns of diasporic belonging and raise new questions about the postcolonial world."
Issues of immigration, language choice, cosmopolitanism, global citizenship, and world literature were among the topics explored at the conference.
Majid, who was originally from Morocco and now writes in English, participated in a roundtable held at the Whitney Humanities Center that culminated the two-day event. The two other novelists are Pap Khouma, who was originally from Senegal, and now lives in Italy and writes in Italian; and Rachida Lamrabet, who was originally from Morocco, and now lives in Belgium and writes in Dutch. All three novelists were asked to reflect on their itineraries and creative processes.
Majid is the author of five critically acclaimed books on Islam and the West, including Islam and America: Building a Future without Prejudice, and a novel, Si Yussef, which has been the focus of much scholarly and critical interest. He is the editor of the magazine TingisRedux.
Posted on: 4/02/2013
Megan Grumbling to read her poetry in York as part of the Maine Poetry Express
Poet Megan Grumbling, who is a developmental writing specialist in the UNE Student Academic Success Center, will be reading with Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair and Richard Foerster at the York Public Library at 7 p.m. Tuesday April 9, as part of the Maine Poetry Express. The Maine Poetry Express, an initiative of the Office of the Maine Poet Laureate, is a whistle-stop tour of community poetry readings conducted by McNair, who brings together Maine poets and townspeople for readings and discussions of poetry.
Grumbling's work has appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, The Southern Review, and other journals; and she has been awarded the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the Robert Frost Foundation’s Award for Poetry. She also conducts writing workshops with both youth and adults, serves as reviews editor for the poetry and arts journal The Café Review, and is the theater critic for the Portland Phoenix.
Posted on: 4/02/2013
Joe Habraken speaks at the 18th Annual Course Technology Conference in San Diego
Joe Habraken, M.A., associate professor of digital and new media in the Department of Arts and Communications, gave a presentation on Microsoft’s cloud computing strategy for end-user applications to over 300 higher education faculty and administrators attending the annual Course Technology Conference sponsored by Cengage Publishing.
Habraken’s presentation session explored Microsoft's cloud-based strategy for the newest release of the Microsoft Office application suite--Office 2013. An overview of how Office 2013 moves the end user into the cloud and the potential benefits, particularly cross-platform compatibility, were discussed.
The session included a look at how Microsoft's adoption of cloud computing affects the nuts and bolts of working in the different Office applications, including old standards such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and how this new cloud strategy leverages new application tools such as Lync and OneNote. The session included a look at Microsoft's new Office licensing strategy and how it affects end-user, including home, small business, educational and corporate users.
Posted on: 3/28/2013
Tim Ford meets with Senator Susan Collins on importance of various research programs to Maine’s economy
Tim Ford, Ph.D., dean of Graduate Studies and interim dean of the Westbrook College of Health Professions, recently met with Senator Susan Collins to discuss the importance of the Institutional Development Awards (IDeA) from NIH, and the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) awards from NSF, NASA, USDA, DOE, & DOD to the economy of Maine. The gathering was part of the annual general meeting of the EPSCoR/IDeA Coalition, of which Ford is Maine’s voting member, in Washington D.C.
The programs that were discussed translate into multiple millions of dollars in the Maine economy, hundreds of jobs, and a trained workforce that addresses many of the state’s most pressing societal needs.
Also meeting with Ford and Senator Collins were Pat Hand, vice chair of the Maine Innovation Economy Advisory Board, chair elect of the National EPSCoR/IDeA Foundation, PI of the Maine IDeA Networks of Biomedical Excellence, and administrative director of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory; and Vicki Nemeth, Maine EPSCoR director/ NSF EPSCoR associate project director and director of research administration and EPSCoR at the University of Maine.
Ford is the chair of the Maine Innovation Economy Advisory Board and past PI of the Montana IDeA Networks of Biomedical Excellence.
Posted on: 3/27/2013
Lara Carlson publishes in 'Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition'
Lara Carlson, Ph.D., FACSM, CSCS, assistant professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Performance, recently published her research in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition.
The publication, titled “Influence of carbohydrate ingestion on salivary immunoglobulin A following resistance exercise,” examined the impact of carbohydrate (CHO) supplementation on salivary immunoglobulin A (s-IgA) levels, interleukin 2 (IL-2), and interleukin 5 (IL-5) following acute resistance exercise (RE).
Heavy exercise stresses immune function and can temporarily impact components of both innate and adaptive immunity; however, CHO supplementation has been shown to attenuate the decline in some measures of immune function after exercise. One of the first lines of defense in the innate immune system against pathogens is s-IgA. The current study found that IL-5 decreases after RE, but s-IgA and IL-2 levels remain stable. CHO ingestion prior to, during or following RE did not appear to alter salivary immune responses.
Citation:
Carlson LA, Kenefick RW, & Koch AJ. Influence of carbohydrate ingestion on salivary immunoglobulin A following resistance exercise. J Int Soc Sports Nutr. 2013 Mar 20;10(1):14. [Epub ahead of print]
Posted on: 3/27/2013
Shelley Cohen Konrad and Karen Pardue to deliver keynote at interprofessional education summit in Minnesota
Shelley Cohen Konrad, Ph.D., LCSW, associate professor in the Department of Social Work, and Karen Pardue, MSN, RN, CNE, ANEF, associate dean for undergraduate education and associate professor of nursing, will co-present the keynote address, “Not Left to Chance: Building and Sustaining an Interprofessional Culture for Campus and Clinical Education” at the Interprofessional Education Summit at St. Catherine University’s Henrietta Schmoll School of Health in St. Paul, Minnesota , on May 1, 2013.
The event, titled “Harnessing the Forces for Change: Developing Interprofessional Teams,” is the second annual healthcare summit at St. Catherine University.
In addition to the keynote address by Cohen Konrad and Pardue, the summit will provide updates from HealthForce Minnesota and the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education at the University of Minnesota, a panel on implementing change, and an opportunity for participants to share best practices.
Posted on: 3/25/2013
Anouar Majid to speak at Yale conference on writers from former French colonies in the African diaspora
Anouar Majid, Ph.D., director of the Center for Global Humanities and associate provost for Global Initiatives, has been invited to participate in a Yale University conference titled "Beyond French: New Languages for African Diasporic Literature." The conference, to be held March 29-30, 2013, will focus on the literature produced by writers from former French colonies in both North and Sub-Saharan Africa who have settled in countries other than France and have been writing in languages other than French.
Composing their works in German, Italian, Dutch, Catalan, Spanish, English and other languages, these writers suggest new cultural patterns and questions. The organizers have invited several authors, and the conference will conclude with a conversation with Majid and two other writers.
Posted on: 3/25/2013
Barry Costa-Pierce selected as 2013 Distinguished Scholar in Global Aquaculture in LAFF Program at UC Santa Barbara
Barry Costa-Pierce, Ph.D., Doherty Professor and director of the Marine Science Center, has been selected as the 2013 Distinguished Scholar in Global Aquaculture in the Latin American Fisheries Fellowship (LAFF) Program of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB).
As the LAFF Scholar, Costa-Pierce will be giving a series of lectures to scientists, faculty and Fellows at UCSB the week of April 1-5, 2013.
Posted on: 3/25/2013
Cynthia Forrest serves as essay judge and presenter at ACE and NASPA
Cynthia Forrest, Ed.D., vice president for Student Affairs, has been involved in significant professional engagements over the past two months.
On February 7th, Forrest served on the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum's panel of judges for the national Profile in Courage Essay Contest, held at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts.
The contest invited high school students throughout the nation to “consider the concept of political courage by writing an essay on a U.S. elected official who has chosen to do what is right, rather than what is expedient.” A “Profile in Courage” is the retelling of a story of how an elected official risked his or her career to do what he or she felt was honorable rather than be swayed by public opinion or political pressure. The essay contest challenges students to research and write about of political courage that occurred after the 1956 publication Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy.
Forrest also attended the council board meeting for the American Council on Education (ACE) Women's Network Executive Council, on which she serves. The board meeting was held March 1-3 in Washington, D.C, at the ACE Annual Meeting as well as the ACE Women's Network State Coordinators' Conference, where she presented a session titled "Strategic Communication for the Network.”
In addition, Forrest was selected as a presenter at the March 20th National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) National Conference. The program that she and her co-presenters created, “Internationalization of US Campuses: Blending Cultures" was featured as the NASPA International Program Knowledge Community sponsored program.
Posted on: 3/25/2013
Chris Rizzo and Ryan Eling showcase UNE’s Clinical Simulation Program to Maine Athletic Trainers’ Association
Chris Rizzo, M.S., ATC, LAT, CSCS, associate clinical professor and clinical education coordinator in the Department of Athletic Training, and Ryan Eling, operations manager and clinical simulation specialist, presented the UNE Clinical Simulation Program to an audience of 80 students and professional athletic trainers on March 15, 2013, at the 10th annual Maine Athletic Trainers’ Association (MATA) Luncheon and Educational Session in Bangor.
Rizzo served as the keynote speaker and presented the on-ice simulation exercise, “Managing Traumatic Injury in Ice Hockey,” which was performed last semester with UNE’s state-of-the-art human simulator, the Laerdal SimMan 3G (nicknamed "Gene"). Gene's “accident” on the University’s ice rink resulted in the combined efforts of local physicians, Biddeford firefighters and EMS personnel, certified athletic trainers, and UNE athletic training students to attend to a cervical spine injury. The simulation exercise was supported by a grant that Rizzo received through MATA.
Eling introduced the audience members to Gene in order to give them an up-close and personal look a a fully life-like mannequin, which can accurately mirror human responses such as breathing, bleeding, blinking, and speaking. Gene also responds to medical procedures such as CPR, administration of IV medication, intubation, ventilization, and catheterization.
Posted on: 3/20/2013
Geoffrey Bove speaks in Vancouver on the logistical and philosophical challenges in clinical practice
On March 9, 2013, Geoffrey Bove, DC, Ph.D., associate research
professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, presented an
afternoon lecture and workshop titled “Hypothesis and Dogma in Clinical
Practice” to 150 members of the Massage Therapy Association of British
Columbia.
In his talk, Bove focused on a combination of fallacies
that inform and perpetuate clinical practices that have little or no
basis in science, but continue to be used. He followed this talk with a
two day continuing education session on the neurobiology of pain and
critical features of nerves.
Posted on: 3/14/2013
Noah Perlut publishes paper on songbird migration in biogeography journal
Noah Perlut, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of
Environmental Studies, co-authored a paper, “Phenological matching
across hemispheres in a long-distance migratory bird,” which was
recently published in Diversity and Distributions: A Journal of Conservation Biogeography.
The
study on which the paper is based was one of only a few to use
geolocators to track the annual migrations of individual songbirds. It
was the first to track a species migration across its entire breeding
distribution. Furthermore, the paper is the first to explain the
ecological processes influencing the timing and extent of migration
into the Southern Hemisphere.
Posted on: 3/14/2013
Karen Pardue to serve as invited keynote speaker at SUNY Farmingdale Nursing Education conference
Karen Pardue,MS, RN, CNE, ANEF, associate dean for undergraduate education and associate professor of nursing,will present the keynote address at the State University of New York (SUNY) Farmingdale Nursing Education conference on Friday, March 15, 2013.
The conference title is “Deconstructing Silos: Path to Successful Interprofessional Practice.” Pardue’s presentation is “Learning to Work Together: Concepts, Challenges and Rewards of Interprofessional Education and Practice.”
Pardue was invited to deliver this keynote in recognition of the innovative interprofessional education and clinical practice efforts that are occurring at UNE.
Posted on: 3/14/2013
Add Verb’s Cathy Plourde to bring ‘You the Man’ to Victoria, Australia
Cathy Plourde, adjunct assistant professor of integrated health sciences and director of Add Verb Productions, will bring the play “You the Man,” a piece about male violence, on tour in Victoria, Australia, in May of 2013.
Plourde will visit with women’s leadership organizations, city councils, and violence prevention agencies throughout Victoria, presenting the play as an innovation that could be implemented with recent funding for domestic/dating violence prevention from Victoria’s Department of Justice.
Dr. Ann Taket of Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, a world-known domestic violence and medical professions education resource, will arrange for Plourde to visit Deakin University’s four city campuses in Burwood, Melbourne, Geelong, and Warrnambool, where she will present the play and facilitate discussions about the potential use of theatrical approaches to prevent domestic/dating violence in Victoria.
“You the Man” is a 30 minute play that is professionally performed by one actor, featuring five male characters whose lives are impacted by violence committed by other men around them. Written by Plourde, it has been presented in U.S. high schools and colleges since 2002, and it has been the subject of a longitudinal study measuring both increase of awareness and likelihood to intervene as a bystander.
Add Verb Productions was founded in 2000 with a mission of using theater and story for health, wellness and activism.
Posted on: 3/13/2013
Anouar Majid speaks in Morocco on the doomed Arab Spring
Anouar Majid, Ph.D., director of the Center for Global Humanities and associate provost for Global Initiatives, gave a lecture to students on March 1, 2013, at Morocco's Institut Supérieur de l'Information et de la Communication (Higher Institute for Information and Communication) titled "Tradition and Cultural Change: Reflections on the Arab Spring."
In his talk, Majid explained why the Arab Spring is doomed to remain a failed experiment as long as Muslims do not acquire the courage to question the foundations of their cultural systems.
(Photo by Mohammed El Hamzaoui)
Posted on: 3/11/2013
Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour serves as co-editor and author for new book from Society for the Teaching of Psychology
Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour, Ph.D., has contributed to a new book titled So you landed a job – What’s next? Advice for early career psychologists from early career psychologists. Published by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, the book addresses many of the challenges confronting early career psychologists and offers best-practice advice for successfully navigating these obstacles.
Stiegler-Balfour’s chapter, which is titled “Maximize student- and peer-evaluations: Leveraging feedback to become a more effective teacher and improve student learning,” outlines how student- and peer-evaluations can be used not only to improve teaching techniques but also to drive student learning outcomes. The chapter further discusses how approaches to teaching often evolve over time and the importance instructors must place on ensuring continued professional growth throughout their careers.
The full citation is as follows:
Keeley, J., Afful., S. E., Stiegler-Balfour, J. J., Good, J. J., & Leder. S. (2013). So you landed a job – What’s next? Advice for early career psychologists from early career psychologists.
Read the book on the Society for the Teaching of Psychology web site:
Posted on: 3/11/2013
UNE’s Add Verb Production’s ‘You The Man’ to be performed at Engaging Men Program orientation
UNE’s Add Verb Productions will perform “You The Man,” a piece that addresses the bystander role in violence prevention, at a three-day program orientation for the Engaging Men Program—a federal program focusing on engaging men to prevent violence against women. The orientation will take place in Arlington, Virginia, March 11-13, 2013.
Convening at the orientation will be Futures Without Violence and the Office on Violence Against Women, both technical assistance providers for the program, as well as representatives from 12 sites across the country, selected to create public education campaigns and community organizing strategies to engage men and boys in their communities to prevent violence against women.
Cathy Plourde, executive director of Add Verb Productions, as well as “You The Man” actor Lloyd Watts, will share with orientation attendees how the play and accompanying program can be used in community, school, and organization settings to further the coordination of a response to violence.
Posted on: 3/07/2013
Marilyn Gugliucci to receive SOME Innovation in Medical Education Award
Marilyn R. Gugliucci, Ph.D., director of geriatrics education and research in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, is being awarded the 2013 Marguerite Elliott Innovation in Clinical Medical Education Award by the national Society of Osteopathic Medical Educators (SOME).
Award winners are selected on merit by peer-review. Gugliucci is being recognized for her "Learning by Living: Life Altering Medical Education" Program, a nursing home immersion program that she developed whereby medical students are "admitted" into nursing homes to live the life of an elder resident for two weeks (24 hour a day), complete with a diagnosis and standard procedures of care.
As a recipient of this prestigious award and in recognition of Gugliucci's achievement, she has been invited to present at the 2013 joint American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine/Association of Osteopathic Directors and Medical Educators Annual Meeting April 24-27, 2013, in Baltimore, Maryland, where she will also receive her award.
Posted on: 3/04/2013
Marilyn Gugliucci gives six presentations at annual meeting of Association for Gerontology in Higher Education
Marilyn R. Gugliucci, Ph.D., director of geriatrics education and research, co-delivered six presentations at the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) at the AGHE Annual Meeting in Florida, February 28-March 3, 2013.
Gugliucci and her co-presenters provided the opening plenary session of the meeting “Charting the Future: Assuring Relevance and Quality in Gerontology and Geriatrics Education While Higher Education is Under Siege.” Gugliucci, who previously served as AGHE president (2008-2010) participated in the Past Presidents’ Symposium, titled “Making Waves in Gerontology Education.” Gugliucci’s segment of the presentation was titled “At the Core of Gerontological and Geriatric Education.”
Gugliucci co-conducted two two-hour workshops: “Comprehensive Training for Program of Merit Pre-Approved Reviewers” and “Practical Assistance for AGHE Program of Merit Application Process.” These workshops addressed a quality assessment review program for gerontology programs. To date there is no accreditation body in place to conduct gerontology program reviews, although Gugliucci and a number of AGHE colleagues are in the process of designing such a body. Gugliucci designed and co-chairs the AGHE Consultation Program, which provides a range of evaluation and development services for gerontology/geriatrics programs.
Gugliucci also co-presented a “Student and AGHE Fellow Mentorship Session,” and participated in the symposium “The Effects of Aging on Faculty: Transformations of Pedagogical Approaches and Orientations.”
Posted on: 3/04/2013
Julie Longua Peterson presents at the annual conference of the Eastern Psychological Association
Julie Longua Peterson, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, gave a research talk at the annual conference for the Eastern Psychological Association in New York City. Her presentation focused on the potentially negative consequences of security primes for people who are anxiously attached.
Across two experiments, people high in attachment-related anxiety experience decreased implicit feelings of self-worth when thoughts of relationship security are activated. The results also suggest that high anxiety participants only experience implicit self-doubt when they are the receivers of security, rather than the providers of it.
As researchers begin to employ security-priming as a tool for enhancing feelings of safety in relationships, they should be aware of the potentially negative consequences for those who are anxiously attached. Ironically, it appears that the security that people who are high in attachment-related anxiety desire most from their close relationship partners has the potential to activate implicit vulnerabilities.
This work is part of Longua Peterson’s main research line, which focuses on the how explicit (conscious controlled) and implicit (unconscious, automatic) processes inform our understanding of relationship dynamics.
Posted on: 3/01/2013
Robert Ross evaluates two public health grants, launches spring faculty seminars, delivers presentation
Robert H. Ross, Ph.D., research associate professor in the College of Graduate Studies, is currently involved in several endeavors.
Ross is an evaluator on the new CHANNELS Project, HRSA-funded grant to advance interprofessional work to improve the health of immigrant and refugee communities in Portland, Maine. Jen Morton, DNP, MA, MPH, RN, assistant professor in the Westbrook College of Health Sciences, is the Principle Investigator.
Ross is also an evaluator on the SmilePartners Project, a DentaQuest Foundation grant to reduce oral health disparities in vulnerable immigrant and refugee populations in the Portland area.
Also, Ross recently launched the spring semester faculty seminars as part of the Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Initiative at UNE, with a lecture titled "CTS Research Project Sponsorship, Proposal preparation, Submission." Presenters were Ed Li, Pharm.D., BCOP, associate professor in the College of Pharmacy, and Peter Herrick, MSEd, assistant director of Sponsored Programs.
Finally, Ross presented, "What do Injury and Healing look like? A Reflection at the intersection of Family systems theory and Franciscan spirituality on one Photograph taken in late October of a ‘Communal triangle’” at the Bangor Theological Seminary in Portland.
Posted on: 3/01/2013
Kathleen Welch works on HIV/AIDS prevention in Louisiana
Kathleen Welch, Ph.D., MPH, adjunct faculty member in the Graduate Programs in Public Health, attended the International AIDS Conference this past July in Washington, D.C. and was asked by the Kaiser Family Foundation to present at its national headquarters on the "We are AIDS" campaign in Louisiana. Welch is also now directing evaluation efforts in Louisiana for HIV prevention as well as for the prevention of other STDs. (Louisiana ranks 4th highest in AIDS case rates and first for syphilis and gonorrhea.)
This past year, Welch worked with other key members in the Department of STD/HIV Program at the Louisiana Office of Public Health to help write a grant to address racial health disparities. Louisiana was one of eight grantees selected by the CDC Office of Minority Health and Health Equity to receive over $3 million for three years to help reduce the incidence of HIV among the African-American population in Louisiana, where African Americans account for 32% of the state's population but 67% of the HIV cases.
Posted on: 3/01/2013
UNE's Maine Area Health Education Center (AHEC) receives Veterans Mental Health Project grant
Karen O’Rourke, MPH, Director of UNE’s Maine AHEC (Area Health Education Center) Network, has secured UNE’s Maine AHEC as a site for an AHEC Veterans Mental Health Project. This is a national initiative to improve the quality of care that returning veterans receive in their communities.
The Maine AHEC Network will be hosting a continuing education session for health care providers on issues and resources for returning veterans and their families who may be dealing with post traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury and other mental health issues. The programs will be held later in 2013.
Posted on: 3/01/2013
Michele Polacsek co-leads health impact assessment training
Michele Polacsek, Ph.D., MHS, associate professor in the Graduate Programs in Public Health, co-led a training on February 5, 2013, on how to conduct a health impact assessment (HIA) with a focus on obesity prevention. The training was sponsored by UNE’s Center for Community and Public Health, New England Alliance for Public Health Workforce Development, the Maine Prevention Research Center and the Maine Public Health Association.
HIAs are used by policymakers to assess a particular policy or program by evaluating its possible impact, by estimating its effects, and by assessing its potential health impact. In addition, HIAs increase partnerships and communication, and improve the quality of public policy decision-making.
The 25 participants included individuals from state and local public health agencies, county government, community organizations, health systems, and Healthy Maine Partnerships.
The training is the first step in the development of an HIA that will be led by Polacsek.
Posted on: 2/28/2013
Ivan Most Coordinates occupational safety program in New England
Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health Ivan Most, Sc.D., P.E., is coordinating a National Machine Guarding program in New England. The program aims to prevent injuries from machines with moving parts.
Funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the project is led by David Parker of the Minnesota-based Park Nicolett Institute, which has created a partnership with Maine-based workers’ compensation insurer, MEMIC. The company will recruit customers in the precision machining industry to participate in the program.
The National Machine Guarding Program builds and expands upon previous work in the Minnesota Machine Guarding Study. In the current program, a machine safety intervention is delivered to metal fabrication businesses in various regions of the U.S. The purpose is to help small businesses prevent machine-related injuries through: 1) establishing and maintaining safety programs; 2) implementing applicable standards and guidelines for machine safety, and, 3) developing sustainable skills such as self-auditing to identify and control hazards.
The program is targeted to businesses with at least five but no more than 150 employees. If proven effective, these measures could form the basis for new practice guidelines with widespread applicability.
Posted on: 2/28/2013
Timothy Ford to deliver keynote at Maine Water Conference
Timothy Ford, Ph.D., dean of Graduate Studies and interim dean of the Westbrook College of Health Professions, has been chosen as a keynote speaker for the Annual Maine Water Conference at the Augusta Civic Center on March 19th, sponsored by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center’s Water Institute. Ford’s speech is titled “Global Studies in Water and Health: Implications for Maine.”
In his talk, Ford will discuss the difficulties of sustaining interventions to reduce the burden of waterborne disease, and examples will be used from studies in Russia and India. Key questions that Ford will address are: how are we so different in the U.S., and particularly in rural Maine?; does climate change place water supplies at significant risk?; and what opportunities are there to improve surveillance for waterborne disease?
Posted on: 2/28/2013
Alicia W. Peters publishes article in 'Anthropological Quarterly'
Alicia W. Peters, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Society, Culture, and Languages, recently published an article titled "'Things that involve sex are just different': US Anti-trafficking Law and Policy on the Books, in their Minds, and in Action" in the journal Anthropological Quarterly, 86(1), March 2013.
The article explores the ways in which cultural attitudes about sex, gender, and victimization intersect the drafting, interpretation, and implementation of U.S. human trafficking law and policy. Peters suggests that while the law provides protections for individuals trafficked into all labor sectors, the symbolic privileging of "sex trafficking" results in uneven treatment for victims as the law is put into action.
Posted on: 2/26/2013
Marilyn Gugliucci delivers keynote address for Organization of Maine Nurse Executives
Marilyn R. Gugliucci, Ph.D., director of geriatrics education and research, provided the keynote address for the Organization of Maine Nurse Executives (OMNE) last week in Augusta, Maine. Her lecture was titled “Aging and Reflective Practice.”
OMNE is a professional organization that directs the course for nursing by promoting sound health care policies for hospitals and other health care environments at the state, local and national level.
Posted on: 2/26/2013
Barry Costa-Pierce delivers keynote address at American Association for the Advancement of Science
Barry Costa-Pierce, Ph.D., FAAAS, professor and chair of the Department of Marine Sciences and director of the Marine science Center, presented a keynote talk at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston on February 18, 2013, in the scientific symposium "What is Science's Role in Developing Aquaculture as a Sustainable Use of the Ocean?”
Costa-Pierce’s talk was titled "Sustainability Science of Ocean Food Ecosystems.” It addressed the following topics: The Types of Science We Need, The Types of People We Need, Ecological Aquaculture and the Ecosystem Approach to Aquaculture, Sustainability Science of Ocean Foods, and The New Social Contract for Aquaculture.
Posted on: 2/22/2013
Noah Perlut to present on grassland birds at Audubon event
Noah Perlut, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies, will present “Grassland Birds” on February 26, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. in the Morrell Room of the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick. His presentation is sponsored by Merrymeeting Audubon.
Perlut’s talk will discuss how human-managed habitats, such as hayfields, affect the life histories of rare sparrows, bobolinks, and meadowlarks.
Posted on: 2/21/2013
Amy Deveau elected to term as councilor in the Chemistry Division of the Council of Undergraduate Research
Amy Deveau, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, was elected to a three-year term (June 2013-June 2016) as a councilor in the Chemistry Division of the Council of Undergraduate Research (CUR). Founded in 1978, CUR is a national organization of individual and institutional members representing over 900 colleges and universities, whose mission is "to support and promote high-quality undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship.”
CUR is governed by a Council, which is elected by the members of each of its eight disciplinary divisions, one at-large division, and a division for undergraduate research program directors. Councilors are involved in creating policies to advance CUR's mission, among other responsibilities. CUR hosts an undergraduate research poster session on Capitol Hill, produces a quarterly journal, and provides special institutes on undergraduate research and faculty development as well as a bi-annual national conference.
Posted on: 2/21/2013
Susan Jarmuz-Smith receives National Association of School Psychology’s Presidential Award
Jarmuz-Smith received the award for her service to the organization and discipline of school psychology. Her involvement included: membership on the Operations Team of the international School Psychology Futures conference, web-site creation and management for the School Psychology Futures conference, service as contributing editor for the Mobile Apps Review column for the organization's Communique publication, editing and authorship of several chapters in the profession's Best Practices in School Psychology IV, serving as workgroup chair for the Student Development Workgroup, acting as reviewer for conference submissions, and service on several other of the organization's workgroups.
Also at the conference, Jarmuz-Smith gave a presentation on her research titled, "Establishing Collaborative Activity Scheduling Across School and Home with Mobile Applications.” This area of research focuses on the use of mobile applications to improve communication between school and home. The aim is to increase communication and collaboration between teachers and families and increase independence for children with special needs.
For questions about her award or ongoing research, contact Jarmuz-Smith.
Posted on: 2/19/2013
Anouar Majid publishes Tabsir column on the role of paper in early Islam
Anouar Majid, Ph.D., UNE associate provost for global initiatives and director of the Center for Global Humanities, contributed a column on Jan. 31, 2013 to the online publication Tabsir: Insight on Islam and the Middle East on the role of paper in the early development of Islam.
In the column Majid contemplates the implications of Jonathan Bloom’s book Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World and comes to the conclusion that "Islam would not have been what it is today. That’s because everything we know about Islam and its Prophet from Muslim sources date more or less to this Abbasid period [in the 8th century]. Read the column.
Majid is the author of five critically acclaimed books on Islam and the West, including Islam and America: Building a Future without Prejudice, and a novel, Si Yussef, which has been the focus of much scholarly and critical interest.
Posted on: 2/18/2013
Teresa Dzieweczynski publishes article in 'Acta Ethologica' journal
Teresa Dzieweczynski, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Psychology, published an article in the current issue of the journal Acta Ethologica. The article, "Reproductive state but not recent aggressive experience influences behavioral consistency in male Siamese fighting fish," has a student co-author, Lindsay Forrette (’13), an animal behavior major.
The article is a component of Dzieweczynski's main research line addressing the causes, mechanisms and consequences of individual variation in behavior in male Siamese fighting fish. The current study found that recent, short-term aggressive altercations did not affect behavioral consistency and demonstrates that these behavioral differences may be innate in this species.
Posted on: 2/18/2013
Edward Li co-authors annual forecast of national drug expenditures
Edward Li, Pharm. D., BCOP, associate professor in the College of Pharmacy, co-authored a special feature article that was been published online in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.
The article provides this year’s annual forecast of national drug expenditures. Previous years’ forecasts have been frequently cited in professional journals, news media, and legislative reports.
Li’s article is scheduled to appear in the upcoming print version of the publication.
Citation:
Hoffman JM, Li E, Doloresco F, et al. Projecting Future Drug Expenditures in U.S. Nonfederal Hospitals and Clinics—2013. Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2013; 70:e1-e15.
Posted on: 2/15/2013
Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences partners with Island Institute for Trauma Recovery to provide continuing medical education series
Organized by licensed clinical social workers, Deborah Dana, Rudy Skowronski, Phil Deveau and Jen West, from the Island Institute for Trauma Recovery, sessions are being delivered by UNE professors including: Frank Willard, Ph.D., professor of anatomy; David Mokler, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology; Michael Burman, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology; and Glenn Stevenson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology.
The five part series includes sessions on neuroanatomy, neurotransmitters, trauma, addiction and pain. Approximately 35 people have attended each session thus far.
For more information or to attend future sessions, please contact Deborah Dana, LCSW.
Posted on: 2/13/2013
Ali Ahmida serves as keynote speaker at Cairo International Book Fair
Ali Ahmida, professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, was the invited keynote speaker at the 44th Cairo International Book Fair on January 29, 2013. His talk was titled, “State Building in Libya: Historical Traditions and Current Challenges."
Libya was selected as the guest of honor at this year’s book fair. A delegation of 250 Libyans erected a wing of book displays at the fair, held seminars, and presented Libyan theater and arts.
As the largest and oldest book fair in the Arab world, the annual Cairo International Book Fair attracts hundreds of book sellers from around the world and up to two million visitors. The event took place from January 23rd to February 5th at Cairo International Fair Grounds in Nasr City, near Al-Azhar University.
Posted on: 2/13/2013
Christian Teter contributes chapter to Pharmacotherapy textbook
Christian Teter, Pharm. D., BCPP, assistant professor of psychopharmacology in the College of Pharmacy, has published a chapter, "Substance-Related Disorders,” in the third edition of Pharmacotherapy: Principles and Practice, one of the most frequently required and essential textbooks in pharmacy curriculums.
Chapters in this text are authored by nationally recognized experts in their fields.
Citation:
Teter CJ. Chapter 36 Substance-Related Disorders. Pharmacotherapy: Principles and Practice, 3rd edition. Editors: Chisholm-Burns MA, Wells BG, Schwinghammer TL, Malone MP, Kolesar JM, DiPiro JT. The McGraw-Hill Companies (2013).
Posted on: 2/13/2013
Meghan Sullivan and UNE Academy of Student Pharmacists receive monetary award for community health fairs
Meghan Sullivan, Pharm. D., assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy, and the UNE Academy of Student Pharmacists have been awarded $1,000 for "Heart to Heart Community Health Fairs" by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation in partnership with the Million Hearts initiative, which was created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The health fairs are community events that aim to educate people about heart health issues. The fairs include blood pressure screening, cholesterol education, and smoking cessation information. These events enable student pharmacists at UNE to provide preventative care to members of the community.
The College of Pharmacy was among fifteen award recipients that were selected from nearly 70 applicants.
Posted on: 2/12/2013
John Lemons publishes in literary magazine 'Aeon'
John Lemons, Ph.D., emeritus professor of biology and environmental science in the Department of Environmental Studies, recently published an article in the literary magazine Aeon. Titled "Yosemite Reverie," it concerns the role of memory and moments of fleeting beauty in Yosemite National Park.
Lemons also has an article titled "Science, Policy, and Climate Change and Biodiversity Ethics" in print in the United Nations Journal of Social Science Research sponsored by UNESCO.
Posted on: 2/12/2013
Teresa Dzieweczynski publishes in 'Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology'
Teresa Dzieweczynski, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Psychology, published an article in the most recent issue of the peer-reviewed journal Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. The article, "The effects of short-term exposure to an endocrine disrupter on behavioral consistency in juvenile and adult male Siamese fighting fish," features a student co-author, Olivia Hebert ('13), a medical biology major.
The research examined the effects of the estrogen mimic, ethinyl-estradiol (EE2) on decision-making behavior when males encounter models of male and female conspecifics simultaneously. EE2 affected both overall level of response to both models as well as individual consistency of response. Most importantly, juveniles and adults were differentially impacted, with juveniles experiencing more severe effects of short-term exposure.
This study stresses the importance of examining endocrine disrupter exposure on multiple time scales and at different life span points and suggests that individuals may vary in their sensitivity to exposure.
Posted on: 2/12/2013
Steev Sutton publishes in 'Molecular Pharmaceutics' journal
Steev Sutton, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, recently co-authored an article titled, "Solid Nanocrystalline Dispersions of Ziprasidone with Enhanced Bioavailability in the Fasted State" in the journal Molecular Pharmaceutics.
Ziprasidone [Geodon (c) is an atypical antipsychotic that requires the patient to take this medicine with at least 500 calories for optimal absorption and, therefore, efficacy. This publication outlined the research and development that went into creating a reduced food effect formulation, which is expected to result in an optimal efficacy without regard to meals.
Citation:
Aarde, S. M.; Angrish, D.; Barlow, D. J.; Wright, M. J.; Vanderwater, S. A.; Creehan, K. M.; Houseknecht, K. L.; Dickerson, T. J.; Taffe, M. A. Mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone) supports intravenous self-administration in Sprague-Dawley and Wistar rats. Addict. Biol., 2013, in press.
Posted on: 2/12/2013
Edward Bilsky's Keynote Address at the Maine Osteopathic Association's Winter Symposium
Edward Bilsky, Ph.D., associate provost for research and scholarship, gave a keynote address this past weekend at the Maine Osteopathic Association's 2013 Winter Symposium in Portland. The title of the talk was "Tangled Up In Blue: The Complexity of Chronic Pain From a Neuroscientist's Perspective."
The presentation featured some of the recent work UNE faculty and students are conducting in areas of inter-professional education and community awareness of chronic pain and its impact on patients, families, communities and the health care system. Some recent advances in preclinical and clinical pain research were also highlighted in the keynote, along with implications for preventing or better managing chronic pain.
Dr. Bilsky also serves as the professor of biomedical sciences in the College of Osteopathic Medicine. The Maine Chapter of the American Colleges of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) was established in February of 2004 to assist Maine physician's in strengthening relationships between students, residents and physicians as well as giving formal input to the ACOFP. The mission of the Maine Chapter of the ACOFP is to promote excellence in osteopathic family medicine through quality education, visionary leadership and responsible advocacy.
Posted on: 2/12/2013
Michael Beaudoin contributes chapter to book on distance education
Michael Beaudoin, professor emeritus of education, recently contributed a book chapter to the following publication: Institutional Leadership: Transformative Change or Disruptive Technology. In: Moore, M. (ed.) Handbook of Distance Education (3rd edition). (2012). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Posted on: 2/04/2013
National public health expert Georges Benjamin proposes healthy communities as pathway to health equity
Georges Benjamin, M.D., executive director of the American Public Health Association, on January 30, 2013 addressed students, faculty and staff at the Ludcke Auditorium on UNE's Portland Campus on “Building Healthy Communities: A Pathway to Health Equity.”
The event was part of UNE’s annual celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. who at one time said, “Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.”
The event was hosted by UNE's Office of Multicultural Affairs & Diversity and InterProfessional Education Collaborative.
Posted on: 1/31/2013
Add Verb's Cathy Plourde speaking in Brunswick and Lewiston
Cathy Plourde, director of UNE's Add Verb Productions, has been asked to speak at Bowdoin College in Brunswick on a theater careers panel in early February for the college's Masque & Gown and Career Planning Center. This panel aims to give students interested in the arts a chance to explore opportunities in theater, tech, management, and education. Plourde's unique background and health and wellness education work provides a look at educational and nontraditional approaches to theater careers.
On Feb. 21 at the Lewiston Public Library as a part of the Great Falls Forum season, Plourde will be speaking on "Arts, Advocacy & Action: Acting as if Our Lives Depended on It", sharing some of Add Verb's work in public health and education.
Great Falls Forum programs take place from 12 noon to 1 pm in the Library’s Callahan Hall. The programs are free and no advance registration is required. More information on the series and lunch options.
Posted on: 1/30/2013
Josh Pahigian publishes Writer's Digest column
Josh Pahigian, an adjunct faculty member in UNE’s Department of English, recently wrote an invited guest column for Writer's Digest on tips for aspiring fiction writers titled “5 Reasons to Set Your Novel in a Famous Place.” Read the column.
Pahigian's first novel, Strangers of the Beach, was published in 2012. He is also author of several books about baseball, including The Seventh Inning Stretch, 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out and The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip.
Posted on: 1/29/2013
David Smith to present at MIT and UCLA
Associate Professor of Philosophy David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., on Feb. 16, 2013 will be speaking at a closed workshop on dehumanization at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Mass., sponsored by the Saxelab, DARPA, and the Project on Justice in Times of Transition as part of the Neuroscience and Social Conflict Initiative. Smith will discuss "why do we dehumanize others?"
In June, Smith will be speaking at a closed workshop on Security and Human Behavior at UCLA. This annual meeting is primarily attended by experts on cyber-security and anti-terrorism.
Smith is the author of Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others, Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind and The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War.
Posted on: 1/29/2013
Ali Ahmida gives lecture in Libya
Ali Ahmida, Ph.D., chair and professor in the Department of Political Science, was the invited lecturer at the Center for Libyan Archives and Historical Studies in Tripoli, Libya, on December 19, 2012.
Ahmida’s lecture, titled “The Libyan February 17 Revolution and American Mass Media,” was announced on Libyan national television and was attended by over 200 people.
Posted on: 1/23/2013
Article co-authored by Geoffrey Bove reviewed in 'Journal of the American Osteopathic Association'
Associate Research Professor Geoffrey Bove, DC, Ph.D., along with co-author Susan L. Chapelle, RMT, owner of Squamish Therapeutic Massage in Squamish, British Columbia, published an article last year in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, which recently received a focus review in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.
The majority of surgeries lead to postoperative adhesions, and are the leading cause of pathologies such as bowel obstruction and infertility. Moreover, up to 35% of operated people undergo reoperation for postoperative adhesions.
Bove’s and Chapelle’s paper, “Visceral mobilization can lyse and prevent peritoneal adhesions in a rat model,” presented the investigators’ experiments in which three groups of rats underwent intestinal and abdominal abrasions to induce postsurgical abdominal adhesions similar to those suffered by humans. One group of rats received abdominal visceral manipulation on post-operative day seven; one group received no manipulation; and the third received it once daily beginning on post-operative day one.
After the rats were euthanized and abdominal incisions were made, photographs of the adhesions were given to two blinded investigators who rated the extensiveness of the adhesions in all groups. It was concluded that visceral manipulation has a positive effect not only on lysing adhesions, but also of preventing them.
“Abdominal Visceral Manipulation Prevents and Reduces Peritoneal Adhesions,” the review of Bove’s and Chapelle’s article, can be viewed on the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association’s website.
This month, Bove and Chapelle published a related paper, also in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, titled “Visceral massage reduces postoperative ileus in a rat model.” (JBMT 2013, v 17, 83-88).
Posted on: 1/22/2013
Michael Beaudoin publishes review article in 'Educational Technology Research and Development'
Michael Beaudoin, Ed.D., professor emeritus of education, recently published a review of the article “Quality assurance and accreditation in distance education and e-learning: models, policies and research.” (I. Jung, C. Latchem (eds): (2012). New York: Routledge.)
Beaudoin’s review appeared in the August 14, 2012, issue of Educational Technology Research and Development.
Posted on: 1/22/2013
Julie Longua Peterson presents at annual meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Julie Longua Peterson, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, presented her research on January 17, 2013, at the 14th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).
Peterson’s work, titled “(De)Valuing the Roommate Relationship,” reveals how conflict in the roommate relationship effects implicit (automatic, unconscious) evaluations of roommates and future negative behavior. Her results highlight the potential for negative implicit evaluations to bias more conscious relationship expectations and behaviors.
Posted on: 1/18/2013
Article co-authored by Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour appears in 'Language and Cognitive Processes' Journal
Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, has co-authored an article titled “The role of relevance in the activation and instantiation of predictive inferences” in the peer-reviewed journal Language and Cognitive Processes.
The article outlines whether predictive inference activation is contingent upon the prior context being currently relevant to--or consistent with--the on-going discourse, an issue which is critical with respect to theories about updating of discourse representations.
In three experiments the authors showed that readers name inference concepts faster following an inference-evoking sentence than following a baseline sentence, regardless of whether the inference was consistent or inconsistent with the prior context. These results have implications for the process via which inferences are activated as well as the process governing inference instantiation.
Posted on: 1/18/2013
Amy Keirstead publishes in Chemical Physics Letters
Amy Keirstead, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Physics, recently published an article titled “Direct Observation of Spiropyran Phosphorescence in Imidazolium Ionic Liquids” in the journal Chemical Physics Letters. The article includes work done by undergraduate student co-authors Sean Naughton (Biochemistry and Medical Biology ’13), Robyn Gaudet (Chemistry ’11) and Annie Leslie (Neuroscience ’13).
The study describes the luminescence behavior of a novel “on-off” molecular switch (the spiropyran) in a series of ionic liquids, which are thought to be “green” alternatives to conventional solvents. Specifically, the spiropyran was shown to emit both red fluorescence and blue-green phosphorescence in the ionic liquids compared to only fluorescence in molecular solvents, and it is the first reported example of spiropyran phosphorescence in ionic liquids. This type of system could be used to form a robust two-state-two-color emitting “switch” device for future nanotechnology applications.
(Complete citation: Sean P. Naughton, Robyn M. Gaudet, Anne A. Leslie, Amy E. Keirstead. Chemical Physics Letters 556 (2013) 102-107.)
Posted on: 1/15/2013
Julie Longua Peterson publishes in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Julie Longua Peterson, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, recently published an article titled “Regulating connection: Implicit self-esteem predicts positive non-verbal behavior during romantic relationship-threat” in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol.49, Jan., 2013.
Her research suggests that, in response to relationship-threat, implicit self-esteem regulates connection promoting behavior such as smiling, touching, forward leans, and increased eye contact.
Posted on: 1/14/2013
Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour presents at Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning’s 2013 Workshops on College Teaching
Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour, Ph.D., presented a talk titled “Why You Should be Making Things Harder for Your Students: Enhancing Classroom Learning Through the Introduction of Desirable Difficulties" at the 2013 Workshops on College Teaching, organized by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of New Hampshire.
Her presentation, which examined methods and strategies for effectively introducing desirable difficulties in the classroom, included a discussion of different cognitive principles as they apply to learning and the ways in which standard teaching methods can be modified to encourage a deeper and more meaningful processing of material.
The 2013 Workshops on College Teaching are designed to provide attendees with a best-practice “toolkit” for creating learning conditions that fuel deeper processing and, thus, long-term retention.
Posted on: 1/11/2013
David Smith presents on self-deception at Eastern Division of American Philosophical Association
Associate Professor of Philosophy David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., presented a paper titled "Self-deception and self-misleading" on December 29, 2012, at the annual meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Atlanta, Georgia.
The paper presents a biologically-inspired alternative to the existing philosophical theories of self-deception.
Posted on: 1/07/2013
Gayle Brazeau elected secretary to AACP Council of Deans
College of Pharmacy Dean Gayle A. Brazeau, Ph.D., has been elected by her peers to serve as secretary of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Council of Deans.
Brazeau has served as dean at UNE since September 2010.
Prior to arriving at UNE, she was professor of Pharmacy Practice and the associate dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Previously, she was a faculty member at the University of Florida and the University of Houston. Brazeau is an associate editor for the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and serves on several editorial advisory boards for other scientific journals.
The mission of AACP is to lead and partner with members in advancing pharmacy education, research, scholarship, practice and service to improve societal health.
Posted on: 1/03/2013
Judith Metcalf presents at Annual Scientific Meeting of Gerontological Society of America
Judith A. Metcalf, APRN, BC, M.S., director of the UNE Maine Geriatric Education Center, and two other geriatric education directors presented at the 66th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in San Diego, California, on November 18, 2012.
The symposium was titled “Humanities and Arts Charting a New Frontier in Geriatric Education.” Metcalf’s presentation, “Art in Aging – Living Art Living Well Studio, A Model for Geriatric Education,” focused on the Living Art Living Well Studio model for building partnerships, strengthening program development and creating awareness among health professionals regarding the impact of Art in Aging and how creativity matters to the health of the body, mind and spirit of older adults.
Posted on: 1/03/2013
Barry Costa-Pierce to speak at AAAS annual meeting on sustainability of marine aquaculture operations
Barry Costa-Pierce, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Marine Sciences, director of the Marine Science Education and Research Center, and director of the Center for Land-Sea Interactions, has been invited to speak at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting, which will be held February 14-18, 2013, in Boston.
Costa-Pierce’s talk, "A Framework for Assessing Sustainability of Marine Aquaculture Operations," will be part of the session titled “What is Science’s Role in Developing Aquaculture as a Sustainable Use of the Ocean?”
Costa-Pierce is a Fellow of the AAAS.
Posted on: 1/03/2013
Steven Sutton wins $40,000 NIH sub-award
Steven (Steev) C. Sutton, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the College of Pharmacy's Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, has been awarded an NIH sub-award from the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education (NIPTE) for the Development of the FDA Reviewer Training Module "Biophysical Foundation of Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics.”
This $40,000 award will run from January through June, 2013.
Posted on: 12/20/2012
Nicole Bergeron receives WCHP Employee Recognition Award
UNE's Westbrook College of Health Professions Associate Dean Karen Pardue presented Nicole Bergeron, a staff assistant in the Department of Nursing, with the WCHP Employeee Recognition Award at the annual Holly Luncheon, held December 18, 2012, on the Portland Campus.
Pictured are Karen Pardue, left, and Nicole Bergeron
Posted on: 12/20/2012
Steven Sutton contributes chapter to new book
Steven (Steev) C. Sutton, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the College of Pharmacy's Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, has contributed the chapter “Biopharmaceutics and Veterinary Drug Delivery” to the ebook Long Acting Animal Health Drug Products Advances in Delivery Science and Technology.
Posted on: 12/20/2012
Biddeford Free Clinic’s Annual Report acknowledges contributions from College of Pharmacy
The Biddeford Free Clinic relies on a team of dedicated volunteer healthcare workers to provide medical care to the uninsured in Southern Maine. It is the only free clinic in Maine with a licensed pharmacy.
Additionally, Assistant Professor Matt Lacroix is highlighted in the annual report for his workshops on medications for patients with pulmonary and diabetic diseases. Lacroix works with the Sugarbusters staff by helping to introduce to them diabetes medications, so they can improve care for patients. He says the most rewarding part of the work is how much patients appreciate the care they receive.
Members of the UNE College of Pharmacy faculty have been volunteering at the Biddeford Free Clinic every month since October, 2009.
Posted on: 12/20/2012
Marilyn Gugliucci speaks at two events
Director of Geriatric Education and Research Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., was the invited speaker at two events recently.
First she traveled to Medstar Montgomery Medical Center in Olney, Maryland, to provide two lectures for hospital staff, physicians and administrators. These lectures were: “Aging and the Reflective Practitioner” and “Care for the Hospitalized Older Adult.”
Gugliucci then traveled to San Diego, California, for the 66th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America to present in a session titled “Mentorship for Health Sciences Emerging Scholars and Students.”
Gugliucci also assumed the elected position of chair for the Gerontological Society of America Health Sciences Section, which has over 1,600 members. The society is the nation's oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to research, education and practice in the field of aging.
Posted on: 12/19/2012
Marilyn Gugliucci publishes in 'Journal for Gerontology & Geriatrics Education'
Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., principal investigator for Learning by Living Research in the Department of Geriatric Medicine of the College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Audrey Weiner, Ph.D., CEO for Jewish Home Lifecare in New York, were informed that their article on the Learning by Living Project, “Life Altering Medical Education through Nursing Home Based Experiential Learning,” was published online on December 14, 2012, and will be in print in the February 2013 issue of the Journal for Gerontology & Geriatrics Education.
The article citation is:
Marilyn R. Gugliucci & Audrey Weiner (2012): Life Altering Medical Education through Nursing Home Based
Experiential Learning, Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, DOI:10.1080/02701960.2013.749254
Posted on: 12/19/2012
Joseph Kunkel presents at US-Canada Science Symposium
Last month, Research Professor of Marine Sciences Joseph Kunkel and two co-researchers presented at a U.S.-Canada Science Symposium, which was held in Portland, Maine. The symposium was titled “The American Lobster in a Changing Ecosystem," and Kunkel presented “The Role of Apatite in Lobster Health.”
Kunkel’s presentation discussed the debate over the form and role of calcium carbonate and phosphate in the American lobster (Homarus americanus) cuticle and their possible functions.
In 2005, Kunkel and his co-researchers began a series of studies to examine the mineral properties of the lobster shell in normal and shell diseased individuals. In addition to calcium carbonate mineral forms, they identified four focal locations of minerals with carbonate apatite consistent chemistry.
The locations and potential roles of these mineral deposits are consistent with the cuticle's role in protecting the lobster from physical and microbial attack, and they represent potential targets for shell disease strategies. The erosion of mineral may be the first step in lesion formation, which likely starts at imperfections of the cuticle, which the researchers argue, may be mineral based.
Posted on: 12/19/2012
Charles Ford gives presentation on Israel
Charles W. Ford, Ph.D., professor of health sciences, presented “Israel: From the Past to the Present, from the Holy to the Secular” at a community gathering at Crowder’s Creek School, Lake Wylie, South Carolina, December 9, 2012.
Ford developed a Power Point presentation based on a recent tour to the Middle East that he and his wife, Barbara, hosted. They were asked to host the tour and prepare the presentation as a result of their many years working in the UNE Israel Nursing Program.
Posted on: 12/11/2012
Meghan Sullivan leads recruitment effort for community pharmacy resident
Assistant Professor in the College of Pharmacy, Meghan Sullivan, PharmD, led the recruitment effort for a PGY1 (post-graduate year one) community pharmacy resident at the 47th American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting, held earlier this month in Las Vegas.
This new post-graduate residency program is the direct result of a $50,000 educational grant that the UNE College of Pharmacy and Martin's Point Health Care were awarded from the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation.
The UNE College of Pharmacy will now have a sustained presence at regional and national residency showcases.
Posted on: 12/11/2012
Barry Costa-Pierce wins National Sea Grant Award, speaks on ‘Ecological Aquaculture,’ and publishes global declaration
Chair of Marine Sciences and Director of the Marine Science Education and Research Center Barry Costa-Pierce, Ph.D. FAAAS, recently received the National Sea Grant Association President’s Award for 2012 “for his leadership of the Rhode Island Sea Grant College Program and his pioneering work in the fields of fisheries, aquaculture and healthy coastal ecosystems for the Sea Grant network.”
On December 7th, Costa-Pierce was the invited speaker at the School of Marine Science, University of Maine, Orono, where he gave a lecture titled “Ecological Aquaculture: The Evolution of the Blue Revolution.” The lecture was delivered on site, and by Polycom to University of Maine marine science sites in Walpole, Franklin and Portland.
Costa-Pierce, along with three co-authors, recently published their global declaration on the future of offshore aquaculture, which was endorsed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at a recent meeting in Turkey.
Posted on: 12/10/2012
Sarah Smith and Ed Li earn Board of Pharmacy Specialties certifications
Board Certification through the Board of Pharmacy Specialties recognizes the highest specialized training, knowledge and skills in pharmacy. The Board Certification credentials distinguish a pharmacist as an expert in his or her field.
With this new cohort of Board Certified faculty, the Department of Pharmacy Practice at UNE now has 15 faculty Board Certifications in total including the disciplines of oncology, pharmacotherapy, nutrition, ambulatory care, and psychiatric pharmacotherapy.
Andrea Deschambeault, PharmD, BCPS
Emily Dornblaser, PharmD, BCPS
Erin Koepf, PharmD, BCACP
Matthew Lacroix, PharmD, BCPS
Edward Li, PharmD, BCOP
Leslie Ochs, BSPharm, MS, PhD, PharmD, BCPS
Lisa Pagnucco, BSPharm, PharmD, BCACP
Paige Parsons, PharmD, BCACP
Stephen Rolfe, PharmD, BCPS
David Romerill, PharmD, BCPS, BCNSP
Devon Sherwood, BSPharm, PharmD, BCPP
Sarah Smith, PharmD, BCACP
Christian Teter, PharmD, BCPP
Wesley Zemrak, PharmD, BCPS
Posted on: 12/10/2012
Ada and Don Olins’ research cited as landmark discovery
The discovery of nucleosomes by Don Olins, Ph.D., and Ada Olins, Ph.D., both research professors in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, was recently cited in a review article and timeline compilation of landmark discoveries and concepts on molecular and cellular aspects of chromatin that was published online.
In 1974, the Olins, by employing the electron microscope, discovered the nucleosome, the primal chromatin packaging structure. They found that when visualized by this technique, chromatin appears to be a “string of beads,” where each bead is one nucleosome containing eight histone molecules, around which two coils of DNA are wrapped. The nucleosome is fundamental to higher levels of chromatin packaging, and is the site of chemical modifications that possess genetic regulatory functions.
The Olins currently are engaged in research that is concerned with the higher levels of chromatin packaging, specifically focusing on the mechanisms that place genetically silent chromosomal regions (“heterochromatin”) at the periphery of the cell nucleus.
Read the review article and timeline.
Posted on: 12/10/2012
Lei Lei speaks at University of Southern Maine on gene regulation and neural development
Lei Lei, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology and a member of the Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences, was invited to give a seminar at University of Southern Maine on December 6, 2012. His seminar was titled “Function of the transcription factor Sox11 in neural development.”
Lei discussed his research on the roles of the Sox11 protein in the development of sensory neurons and the brain. This research contributes to our understanding of gene regulation and developmental neurobiology in mammals and may lead to identification of novel therapeutic targets for treatment of chronic pain and neurological disorders.
Posted on: 12/10/2012
Anouar Majid contributes chapter to book on history of Jewish-Muslim relations
Anouar Majid, Ph.D, associate provost for Global Initiatives and director of the Center for Global Humanities, contributed a chapter titled “The Semitic Solution: Renewing the Natural Alliance Between Jews and Muslims” to the book Trialogue and Terror: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam after 9/11, edited by Alan L. Berger and published by Cascade Books.
The book explores relations between Jews and Muslims in the last millennium and argues for a rediscovery of the common destiny of Jews and Muslims.
The chapter is an abridged form of Majid's discussion of the same issue in his book We Are All Moors, published in 2009.
Posted on: 12/07/2012
College of Pharmacy’s Lambda Sigma National Pharmacy Leadership Society holds initiation dinner
The College of Pharmacy’s Phi Lambda Sigma National Pharmacy Leadership Society held its initiation dinner on November 16, 2012, at the Portland Regency Hotel.
Five new honorary members were inducted into the chapter: Professor Karen Houseknecht, Ph.D.; Lynn Kopack, Coordinator of Experiential Education; Lori McKeown; Associate Dean and Associate Professor Glenn Rosenthal; and Denali Wright.
Posted on: 12/06/2012
Anouar Majid gives lecture and presides over panel at conference in Morocco
Anouar Majid, Ph.D., associate provost for Global Initiatives and director of the Center for Global Humanities, recently gave a plenary lecture titled "America and the Arabs' Lost Heritage" at a conference in Marrakesh, Morocco.
In his lecture, Majid made the case that, in many ways, the revolutionary and democratic traditions of the United States are a painful reminder of the opportunities lost by Arabs in the modern period and that Arabs need to rethink their own history to better understand the meaning of the American Revolution.
Majid also presided over a panel on "The United States and the Politics of the Arab Spring."
The conference was sponsored by Hassan II Mohammedia/Casablanca University.
Posted on: 12/06/2012
Noah Perlut speaks at Bowdoin College on impacts of agricultural management on songbirds
Noah Perlut, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies, gave a talk at Bowdoin College on December 6, 2012, titled “The ecological and evolutionary impacts of agricultural management on songbirds.”
Perlut discussed his research, which began in 2002, on how hayfield and pasture management affects the life-histories of grassland songbirds. His work has expanded to create and explore federal policies that balance landowners’ economic and birds’ life-history needs.
Posted on: 12/06/2012
Colin Willis presented at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Conference on the Blood-Brain Barrier
Colin Willis, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology in the College of Osteopathic Medicine and a member of the Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences, is preparing to travel to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Conference on the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB). This meeting will be held in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, December 5-8, 2012.
The purpose of the conference is to explore several aspects of the BBB including: molecular control of BBB development and function, cellular and acellular elements, retinal and other tissue barriers and the role of BBB in inflammation and disease.
Willis will be giving a presentation titled "Signaling at the neurovascular unit following transitory focal astrocyte loss and post-translational occludin modification." In this study, Willis will show that a number of coordinated cell-cell interactions come together at the neurovascular unit to limit the leak of cerebral vessels following injury and explores the role of extracellular matrix receptors to mediate these events. Undergraduate students have participated in this project.
Posted on: 12/06/2012
Stephan Zeeman co-edits and Timothy Ford co-authors book chapter on water quality and health
Timothy Ford, Ph.D., dean of Graduate Studies, and interim dean of the Westbrook College of Health Professions, was a co-author of the chapter.
The book brings together research and application developments that link satellite observations and environmental data with various diseases as a means of producing early warnings of epidemics. Earth observation satellites can monitor changes in the environment that provide clues indicating conditions favorable to outbreaks. Melding those observations with models of disease transmission pathways can help public health officials potentially stop or minimize the spread of disease.
The chapter on water-related disease combines knowledge of the hydrological cycle and links to exposure and transmission pathways as ways to avert human suffering from enteric infections, malaria, schistosomiasis, Legionaires’ disease, amoebic encephalitis, and many others. This chapter brings together information and techniques from global sources on the status of monitoring and developments in predictive algorithms.
Posted on: 12/04/2012
Susan McHugh presents paper at Cosmopolitan Animals Conference in London
Susan McHugh, Ph.D., professor in the Department of English, delivered a paper titled “Let Penguins be Penguins: The Cosmopolitics of Birds as Wildlife Film Characters” at the Cosmopolitan Animals Conference, which convened in October in London.
The paper explores how critically and popularly successful nature films like March of the Penguins and Winged Migration both reflect and influence the growing significance of bird flocks to representing endangered populations of human as well as animal life at the turn of the twenty-first century. It is an excerpt of McHugh's contribution to the essay collection Animals and the Moving Image, presently under review at Columbia University Press, and it is part of her ongoing investigation into the convergences of contemporary representations of genocide and extinction.
Posted on: 12/03/2012
Joshua Pahigian in the spotlight for his novel ‘Strangers on the Beach’
Joshua Pahigian, adjunct faculty member in the Department of English, has recently experienced significant media interest, publicity, and recognition for his latest book, Strangers on the Beach, a mystery thriller that takes place in Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
Pahigian was interviewed on the Coast Morning Show (93.1 FM) on Wednesday, November 28, 2012. He also presented a reading and lecture at the Libby Memorial Library in Old Orchard on Friday, November 30th at 6:00 p.m. and conducted a book signing at Books-A-Million near the Maine Mall in South Portland on Saturday, December 1st.
Additionally, Strangers on the Beach was the focus of an article published Sunday, December 2nd in the Maine Sunday Telegram. He was also interviewed as an alumni spotlight in the College of the Holy Cross's The Crusader.
Pahigian was recently asked to write a guest column on the craft of suspense writing for the Omni Mystery News website. Visit the site.
While Strangers on the Beach is his first published fiction novel, Pahigian is a veteran author with seven baseball-related books to his credit, including 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out and The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip. He is also a contributing writer to ESPN.com.
Posted on: 11/27/2012
Frank Porreca and Tamara King are co-investigators on a PNAS paper on pain relief
Relief of pain is rewarding, according to lead investigator Frank Porreca, Ph.D., of the University of Arizona College of Medicine, who is a part-time faculty member in the UNE College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences. The study demonstrated that treatments that relieve the unpleasant feeling of pain also activate reward circuits and reinforce behaviors that result in relief of pain. Read the PNAS paper online.
Posted on: 11/27/2012
Elizabeth De Wolfe publishes article in ‘Historic New England’ magazine
Elizabeth De Wolfe, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of History & Philosophy, has published an invited essay in the magazine Historic New England.
The article, "Jane Armstrong Tucker, Girl Spy," reveals Tucker's previously unknown involvement with an 1890s political scandal. Tucker's home, Castle Tucker, in Wiscasset, Maine, is one of the thirty-six historic properties maintained by Historic New England, a New England-wide preservation organization.
Posted on: 11/27/2012
Edward Li to speak at American Society of Health System Pharmacists Midyear Meeting
Edward Li, Pharm.D., BCOP, associate professor in the College of Pharmacy, has been invited to speak at the 47th American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear Clinical Meeting on December 3, 2012, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The title of Li's presentation is "The Role of Biologics in Patient Care and an Overview of Biosimilar Science." The talk will be broadcast live via webcast.
Li is a nationally recognized expert on the clinical and policy issues regarding biologics and FDA approved versions of innovator biopharmaceutical products. His recent publication, "Projecting future drug expenditures 2012," was a feature article in the American Journal of Health-Systems Pharmacists.
The ASHP Midyear Meeting is the largest annual meeting of pharmacists in the world, with more than 20,000 attendees from over 80 countries.
Posted on: 11/27/2012
Ali Ahmida participates as discussant on panel at MESA conference
Ali Ahmida, professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, served as a discussant on a panel titled “Colonial, Revolutionary, and Contemporary Libya: Emerging Research” at the 2012 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference, which was held November 17-20, 2012, in Denver, Colorado.
The purpose of the panel was to present samples of new scholarship that has been developing on 20th century and contemporary Libya. The papers presented as part of this panel focused on Italian colonial rule (1911-1943), Qadhafi’s regime (1969-2011) and contemporary developments (2011-present).
Posted on: 11/26/2012
Anouar Majid publishes article on Muslim Salafists
Anouar Majid, Ph.D., director of the Center for Global Humanities and associate provost for Global Initiatives, recently published an article on tabsir.net, an online publication devoted to insight on Islam and the Middle East.
“Muslim Salafists and Moderates: What’s the Difference?” discusses how the Muslim attachment to the past is exemplified by the Salafists, a loose confederation of Muslim literalists who champion the return to seventh century beliefs and behaviors.
Majid makes the argument that Westerners do the Islamic world no favors by giving a “free pass” to Muslims who promote injustice due to their religious extremism and that Westerners would do more good by encouraging Muslim reformers than by looking the other way from Islamic extremism.
Posted on: 11/26/2012
Staff changes at UNE/CCPH’s Maine Area Health Education Center Network
The Maine Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Network, a part of UNE’s Center for Community and Public Health, works to alleviate health workforce shortages in rural and underserved areas of Maine. It has recently experienced several important changes in staffing.
Karen O’Rourke, MPH, deputy director of the UNE’s Center for Community and Public Health (CCPH) has been named the new director of the Maine Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Network, a part of CCPH, as of September 1, 2012.
O’Rourke will also continue to be the outreach coordinator for Practical Experiences Course with the Graduate Program in Public Health (also a part of CCPH) as well as with other public health workforce training programs.
O’Rourke will lead the Network in continuing to develop and implement strategies to recruit individuals from under-represented minority populations and from disadvantaged or rural backgrounds into the health professions.
Gail Dana-Sacco, Ph.D., will continue to be involved with the AHEC Network as the executive director and principal investigator (PI). Dana-Sacco also holds a tenure track position as assistant professor with the Graduate Program in Public Health.
Maryfrances Smith, the former coordinator of the Maine AHEC Network’s Program Office, has been promoted to program manager of the Model Leadership Program with the Maine AHEC Network.
Joining the Maine AHEC Network’s Program Office is Arielle Feger, who serves as administrative assistant. Her time and talents are shared with the Healthy Maine Partnership program under the CCPH department.
Posted on: 11/26/2012
Anouar Majid presents at conference on The Arab Spring and Constitutionalism in the Middle East
Majid's presentation was part of a panel titled Controversial Subjects that a Constitution Needs to Address. Other presenters on the panel included Abdallah Alashaal, a candidate for president in the last election, and Nestor Davidson, a professor of law. The panel was moderated by Elizabeth Defeis, a professor of law and Advisor to the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations.
Majid also moderated a panel on Constitutional Design, which featured Ruti Teitel, a distinguished law professor; Driss El Yazami, Morocco’s chairman of the Human Rights Council; Ghazi Gherairi, a prominent Tunisian jurist; and Farida Abidi, a member of the Tunisian Ennahda Movement and president of the Drafting Commission on Rights and Liberties of the future Tunisian Constitution.
In addition to Majid's contributions, the event was partly co-sponsored by the Center for Global Humanities.
Posted on: 11/19/2012
Charles Ford leads tour in Israel and Jordan
Charles W. Ford, Ph.D., professor of health sciences in the Westbrook College of Health Professions, and his wife, Barbara, recently returned from Israel and Jordan as leaders in a two-week tour. The Fords had participants from four states and locally from Kennebunk, Maine.
Since the Fords spent about three years (total) living and working in Israel during the UNE Israel Nursing Degree Completion Program from 1998 until 2010, they are quite familiar with the country and the various sites, both secular and religious. The Nursing Program had active teaching sites in Jerusalem, Haifa, and Tel Aviv where UNE faculty taught Israeli nurses in English.
During the tour, Ford was able to bring together individuals associated with the UNE program including students and staff as well as family members whom they visited in Israel. Included in the tour group of 31 were two former students at UNE. This was the second group that Ford led to Israel; the first one occurred during a winter term and was comprised of all UNE students and parents as well as several faculty members.
The program included instruction by Ford in seminar on cross-cultural issues of living and working in Israel with particular attention to the health care system. A Palestinian Christian living in Bethlehem was the licensed tour guide, and he provided both a political and historical perspective of ancient and modern Israel. The tour included most of the northern half of Israel extending to the Syrian border in the Golan Heights. The Jordan portion included the ancient city of Gerash and Petra as well as modern Amman.
Posted on: 11/15/2012
James Sulikowski to speak at Spiny Dogfish Research Session
James Sulikowski, Ph.D., associate professor of marine science, will speak on December 17, 2012, at the Spiny Dogfish Research Session, which will be held at the Hampton Inn in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Along with a team of fellow researchers, he will present “Temporal Aspects of Habitat Utilization and Interspecies Competition: Defining the Ecological Impacts of Spiny Dogfish in Structuring the Ecosystem Dynamics of Southern New England.”
The research session presents an opportunity to review research results and discuss fishermen observations. It is being sponsored by the Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation.
Posted on: 11/15/2012
Dora Anne Mills receives Distinguished Public Service Award from Harvard Pilgrim Foundation
The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation has awarded the Distinguished Public Service Award to Dora Anne Mills, MD, vice president of clinical affairs and director of public health programs.
The award, which was presented at the Foundation’s 5th anniversary celebration of its Growing Up Healthy initiative, was created to honor leaders from public service who have been instrumental in helping children live healthier lives. A leader in each of the three states the Foundation serves was awarded. The other award recipients are John Auerbach in Massachusetts and State Senator Nancy Stiles in New Hampshire.
“These current and former public sector leaders have been instrumental in the success of our efforts to create healthier environments for kids,” said Karen Voci, executive director, Harvard Pilgrim Foundation. “The solution to the growing epidemic of childhood obesity is creating environments at home and in communities that make the healthy choices the easier options. From creating new policies to implementing changes in the classrooms, these leaders have broken new ground in their states and are truly the heroes of this movement.”
Prior to Mills’ current role at UNE, she served as director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention for 15 years. She is widely recognized for her public health accomplishments including reducing Maine’s rate of tobacco use, teen pregnancy and childhood obesity. In particular, she is credited with creating the Healthy Maine Partnerships that provide an infrastructure for health programming around the state.
The Foundation’s Growing Up Healthy initiative works to combat childhood obesity through grants to evidence-based programs in schools and afterschool programs, support for policy development and advocacy, and publishing information on the epidemic and its solutions. This month, the Foundation published Gaining Traction, a look back at some of the initiative's successes and lessons, and suggests some next steps on this road to healthier kids and a healthier nation.
About The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation
Created in 1980, The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation supports Harvard Pilgrim's mission to improve the quality and value of health care for the people and communities we serve. The Harvard Pilgrim Foundation provides the tools, training and leadership to help build healthy communities throughout New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine. In 2011, the Harvard Pilgrim Foundation awarded more than $1.3 million in grants to almost 1,000 nonprofit organizations within the three states.
Posted on: 11/15/2012
Noel Genova receives Drew Travers Award
Adjunct Assistant Professor Noel Genova, PA-C, received UNE’s Physician Assistant graduate program’s annual Drew Travers Award on November 9, 2012.
Genova serves as a member of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants Education Council and is on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants.
Drew Travers, PA-C was the first physician assistant licensed in the State of Maine and was committed to improving the health of all Mainers through both his clinical practice and promotion of the PA profession across the state. He was one of the co-architects and founding advocates responsible for the establishment of the UNE’s physician assistant program.
Posted on: 11/13/2012
Keith Matassa, Alethea Cariddi, and Richard Burgess publish composting article
Marine Mammal Rehab Coordinator Keith Matassa, Sustainability Coordinator Alethea Cariddi, and Grounds Lead Richard Burgess, along with two other co-authors, published an article in the October 2012 issue of Biocycle magazine, a publication dedicated to the study of composting, renewable energy and sustainability.
The article, “Overcoming Challenges of Winter Composting,” describes an experiment carried out at UNE that tested whether or not ambient temperature affects compostability.
In the experiment, four composting bins were filled with materials. Bins one and two contained alternating layers of leaves collected from campus clean-up and food scraps (a total of approximately 400 pounds) from the dining hall. Bin four also contained layers of leaves and food scraps, but 38% more food material was used than in bins one and two (approximately 550 pounds). Finally, bin three, the control bin, contained only leaves.
Ambient temperatures as well as bin temperatures were monitored throughout four winter months (December 2011 through March of 2012). All three bins that contained food scraps were able to maintain temperatures adequate for the decomposition process to take place. The control bin did not.
Furthermore, bin number four, upon excavation at the experiment’s conclusion, revealed that it contained a dense, foul-smelling saturated core that, while in a state of decomposition, was not in as advanced a state of decomposition as the contents of bins one and two.
The authors conclude that ambient temperature is not an independent factor in determining the success of composting, as bins containing the optimal “recipe” were able to successfully decompose throughout the Maine winter.
Posted on: 11/08/2012
Susan Jarmuz-Smith participates in planning committee for Futures of School Psychology Conference
Susan Jarmuz-Smith, M.S., visiting assistant lecturer in the Psychology Department, is a member of an international planning committee for the Futures of School Psychology Conference. The goal of the conference is to engage faculty and practitioners across the globe in planning the direction of the profession of school psychology for the next ten years.
The conference is entirely online and is split into three main themes: Leadership, Critical Skills, and Advocacy. Each theme is addressed in an online, interactive webinar with intensive follow-up through the completion of an action planning handbook.
The conference has received over 4,000 individual and group registrations and began on October 8, 2012, with the Leadership session. The Critical Skills session was held on October 26, and the final session, Advocacy, will occur November 10, 2012.
More information can be found on the conference website.
Posted on: 11/05/2012
Ali Ahmida publishes article on the post colonial state of Libya
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair in the Department of Political Science, published in Arabic a new article in the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies Online and its main scholarly journal, Tabayyan.
Ahmida’s article is titled "The Post Colonial State and Social Transformation in Libya."
Posted on: 11/05/2012
Karen Pardue speaks at Transforming Nursing Education Conference
Karen Pardue, associate dean in the Westbrook College of Health Professions, was invited to deliver a plenary presentation at the Transforming Nursing Education Conference held in Durham, North Carolina on November 2-3, 2012, at the Duke University School of Nursing.
The title of Pardue’s presentation was "Learning to Collaborate: Concepts, Challenges and Rewards of Interprofessional Education."
Posted on: 11/02/2012
Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour presents latest research at 2012 New England Psychological Association Conference
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour, Ph.D., presented her most recent research on the correlation between reading skill and academic success at the 2012 New England Psychological Association Conference in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Her talk, titled, “What they can’t comprehend may hurt them: The effect of reading skill on academic success” outlined why students who are able to focus on the most relevant aspects of text and frequently employ reading strategies perform better in an academic setting.
Stiegler-Balfour presented results that indicated that less-skilled students often overestimate their own abilities and, as a result, lack the metacognitive awareness to employ successful reading strategies. Further, the results of her study showed that less-skilled readers’ performance could be enhanced by providing them with guiding questions that help them focus on the most relevant parts of expository text.
Posted on: 10/31/2012
UNE has strong presence at Maine Public Health Association annual conference
More than 400 health care professionals from around the state attended the annual conference of the Maine Public Health Association on October 17 at the Augusta Civic Center. UNE participated in many ways:
Keynote Address
Director of the Maine CDC Sheila Pinette, DO, UNECOM Class of 2000, and UNE Vice President of Clinical Affairs and Director of UNE’s Public Health Programs (and former Director of Maine CDC, 1996-2011), Dora Anne Mills, MD, MPH, FAAP co-presented the keynote address on partnerships. Pinette gave an update on the upcoming budget challenges such as federal sequestration. She made the case for the need for a variety of public health partnerships, given the economic challenges to public health funding.
Mills followed by talking about three emerging public health partnerships: patient-centered or population-centered initiatives (partnering with people to ensure stated needs are met); making deals with organizations based on complementary strengths and needs; and shooting for the stars with other organizations, i.e. setting far-reaching goals. They both noted that although they come from different backgrounds, they are able to work together on issues in common, and hope others do as well.
Health Literacy
Director of the UNE-Maine Geriatric Education Center Judith Metcalf, APRN, BC, MS and UNE Health Literacy Center Director Sue Stableford, MPH, MSB gave a presentation on, “Addressing Health Literacy Challenges for Maine’s Older Adults.” Maine, one of the oldest states in the nation, faces a serious barrier to achieving public health and health care improvements – low health literacy. Just 12 percent of working age adults and only one percent of adults age 75 or older have proficient health literacy skills.
The presentation shared how the UNE-Maine Geriatric Education Center is using a Geriatric Health Literacy Learning Collaborative team training model to address this issue, as well as how these efforts prepare health organizations and academic programs to address national policy goals and meet professional accreditation requirements.
Add Verb Productions
UNE’s Add Verb Productions Director Cathy Plourde presented, “The Thin Line” with actor Emily Dennis to a standing room only crowd. They were accompanied by Mainely Girls – an independent program complementary to Add Verb in their efforts to help the state’s efforts to combat eating disorders. The Thin Line is a one-woman show addressing coping with eating disorders which is presented to schools and universities, as well as to health care professionals. The play serves as an intervention tool, providing knowledge and awareness with a call to action, recognizing that the sooner a person struggling with the illness can get help the better and sooner recovery can occur.
Mary Orear, the Executive Director of Mainely Girls has been organizing “treatment teams” in rural areas throughout Maine to work together to help girls, boys, men and women in their region, and maintains a listing of professionals on their website. Additionally, Mainely Girls helps direct individuals, whether family or professionals, to other resources and options for resources and presents to students as well as faculty in schools about prevention and early intervention. Add Verb and Mainely Girls are planning a tour of Aroostook County with both the play and the Mainely Girls presentation, and have received partial funding from the Sadie & Harry Davis Foundation to do so.
MPHA Board President
UNE Director and Associate Professor in the Graduate Programs in Public Health Denise Bisaillion, Ed.D., was elected as the president of MPHA Board of Directors for the upcoming coming year. The MPHA has approximately 400 members and is the oldest and most diverse organization of public health professionals in Maine. The association aims to protect all Mainers, their families and their communities from preventable, serious health threats and strives to ensure that community-based health promotion and disease prevention activities and preventive health services are universally accessible in Maine.
MPHA represents a broad array of health professionals and others who care about their own health and the health of their communities. MPHA builds a collective voice for public health, working to ensure access to health care, protecting funding for core public health services and eliminating health disparities. Through its e-newsletters, advocacy alerts, annual conference and networking meetings, the MPHA communicates the latest public health science and practice to members, opinion leaders and the public.
Posted on: 10/29/2012
Amy Deveau’s laboratory publishes paper in 'Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters'
The laboratory of Amy Deveau, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, recently published a paper in the journal Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters (2012, 22, 6801-6805).
Students David Martin (COM, 12’) and Paul FitzMorris (CAS, Biochem/MedBio, 10’) developed a new synthetic approach to synthesize Ring C bridged derivatives of naltrexol. This new synthetic method, in conjunction with data from ongoing research, is being applied to understand conformational preferences in naltrexol and how the accessible conformations of Ring C relate to trends in in vitro functional binding for the G-protein coupled mu and kappa opioid receptors.
In the course of the research, the team discovered a novel derivative that functions as a dual kappa opioid agonist / mu opioid receptor antagonist. The team confirmed the compound’s structure by NMR Spectroscopy, mass spec, and X-Ray Crystallography.
The X-Ray structure was solved in collaboration with Bo Li, Ph.D., director of X-Ray Crystallography Center at Boston College. In vitro assays were completed in the lab of Richard Rothman, M.D., Ph.D., from the National Institutes of Health by coauthors Mario Ayestas, Ellicott J. Sally, and Christina M. Dersch. Overall, the potent compound has interesting chemical and biological properties and could be used therapeutically or as a biochemical probe.
Deveau’s paper was an invited contribution for a special journal issue in BMCL that was dedicated to the numerous contributions of Timothy L. Macdonald, Ph.D., in the field of medicinal chemistry. Macdonald, of the University of Virginia, was Deveau’s Ph.D. advisor. Contributions for the special journal issue were selected in part from invited presentations given at a Research Symposium held in April 2012 in Macdonald’s honor.
Posted on: 10/25/2012
Barbara Swartzlander and Elizabeth Dyer present to medical librarians at Maine Health Science Libraries & Information Consortium fall meeting.
Their presentation, titled “Finding Evidence-based Medicine Resources and Best Practices,” focused on the librarians’ role in aiding clinicians with finding evidence to support practice. Basics of evidence-based medicine were presented along with specific examples of high quality free resources, as well as various subscription resources.
Also discussed were ways to stay current with the evidence using customized email alerts and rss feeds. The audience included many librarians from clinical sites that support UNE students and preceptors. Clinical affiliates are offered access to the excellent UNE Library Services’ resources, and the process by which to request access was explained.
During the business meeting prior to the educational program, Elizabeth Dyer was elected Area 1 Representative to the HSLIC Board of Directors for 2012-13.
Posted on: 10/24/2012
Ali Ahmida to speak at World Affairs Council of Maine
Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science Ali Ahmida, Ph.D., will speak at The World Affairs Council of Maine on Nov. 6, 2012, at noon. His presentation is titled “The Libyan Situation Now.”
The World Affairs Council of Maine is a nonprofit and nonpartisan educational organization. It is Maine's preeminent public forum and resource for understanding, analyzing, and debating international issues.
Ahmida is the author of The Making of Modern Libya: State Formation, Colonialization and Resistance and several other books about Libya and North Africa.
Posted on: 10/24/2012
Denise Bisaillon elected president of MPHA’s Board of Directors
Denise Bisaillon, Ed.D., director and associate professor in the Graduate Programs in Public Health, was elected president of the Board of Directors of the Maine Public Health Association (MPHA) at its annual conference, held October 17, 2012, in Augusta.
The MPHA has approximately 400 members and is the oldest and most diverse organization of public health professionals in Maine. The association aims to protect all Mainers, their families and their communities from preventable, serious health threats and strives to ensure that community-based health promotion and disease prevention activities and preventive health services are universally accessible in Maine. MPHA represents a broad array of health professionals and others who care about their own health and the health of their communities.
MPHA builds a collective voice for public health, working to ensure access to health care, protecting funding for core public health services and eliminating health disparities. Through its e-newsletters, advocacy alerts, annual conference and networking meetings, the MPHA communicates the latest public health science and practice to members, opinion leaders and the public.
Posted on: 10/22/2012
John Streicher gives research talk at Jackson Laboratories
John Streicher, Ph.D., research assistant professor in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, travelled to Jackson Laboratories (JAX) in Bar Harbor, Maine, Friday, October 19, 2012, to speak at the Genetics Interest Group meeting.
Streicher presented a talk titled “Novel Strategies for Drug Discovery and Development,” which explored new strategies for forming molecular signaling profiles of diseases or conditions and discussed a drug discovery approach to fit the profile, yielding potentially better therapeutic results with fewer side effects. He spoke on the search for a kappa opioid receptor functionally selective agonist as well as designing a novel bivalent molecule with dual selectivity for mu opioid receptor and cholecystokinin receptor antagonism.
Streicher met with faculty members of JAX to discuss mutual interests, capabilities of UNE, and collaboration on future research. He also met with the director of Core Services, which could be particularly helpful to researchers at UNE using mouse models.
Posted on: 10/22/2012
Edward Bilsky presents at the AOA Public Health Seminar
Associate Provost for Research and Scholarship Edward Bilsky, PhD. presented at the American Osteopathic Association's Annual Meeting in part of a larger Seminar on Public Health.
The title of the entire seminar was “Multi-Dimensional Aspects of Pain,” and Dr. Bilsky’s talk was entitled “Tangled up in the blue: How neuroscience research is providing new insights into the treatment of pain, addiction and their comorbidities.” Dr. Bilsky, who is also professor of biomedical sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, and director of the Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences, focused his talk on the transition from acute pain to chronic pain in patients. Utilizing an anecdote about an ankle sprain, he discussed the interest in figuring out the bridge between acute and chronic pain, keeping in mind that when chronic pain patients are enabled, they can become very powerful.
Dr. Bilsky’s presentation also focused on up and coming research on chronic pain that looked at brain images of fibromyalgia patients which has shown linkage between glutamate and the neurobiology of pain. There has also been a focus on the association between pain and inflammation via examination of the rate-limiting enzyme in tryptophan metabolism known as indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase. More research is being performed to determine if this would be a viable enzyme to inhibit in pain management.
Dr. Bilsky's presentation was highlighted in the OMED Daily News. Read the story.
Posted on: 10/22/2012
Edward Bilsky speaks at Tradeline’s College and University Science Facilities Conference
Edward Bilsky, Ph.D., associate provost for research and scholarship, professor of biomedical sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, and director of the Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences, travelled to San Diego, Calif. to speak at Tradeline’s College and University Science Facilities Conference.
Dr. Bilsky discussed phased growth models for biomedical research facilities. With recent concerns about finances, Dr. Bilsky addressed new priorities, capital budget trends, equipment investment strategies, and project delivery models. Among these models, Dr. Bilsky discussed UNE’s ‘plan-A’ infrastructure while allowing for ‘plan-B’ adaptability. Dr. Bilsky also weighed pros and cons of phased construction with the current economic climate in mind.
Posted on: 10/22/2012
Elizabeth De Wolfe serves on panel at New England Historical Association annual conference
Elizabeth De Wolfe, Ph.D., professor and chair, Department of History & Philosophy, participated in the Fall New England Historical Association (NEHA) annual conference on October 13, 2012, at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts.
She served as chair and commentator for a panel exploring women's lives in nineteenth-century America.
De Wolfe is the President of the New England Historical Association.
Posted on: 10/19/2012
Andrew Rotondo gives talk at Clark University
Andrew Rotondo, assistant lecturer in philosophy in the Department of History & Philosophy, gave a lecture titled “Disagreement and Skepticism” at Clark University on October 16, 2012.
Rotondo explained the motivation for the position that we are epistemically unjustified in holding opinions on controversial topics when we know that other intelligent and informed people disagree with those positions. Rotondo ultimately argued against this belief.
Posted on: 10/19/2012
Jennifer Tuttle presents at Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference
Jennifer Tuttle, Ph.D., Dorothy M. Healy Professor of Literature and Health, Department of English, presented twice recently at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Conference in Denver, Colorado.
Delivering a paper on her own research, she spoke on “Belonging and Exclusion in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s California Writing,” as part of a panel of presentations on new work in Gilman studies. Tuttle’s paper presented new archival findings that challenge prevailing interpretations of Gilman as a New England writer, illuminating both Gilman’s relationship to the American West and the importance of the West to turn-of-the-century feminist philosophy.
Tuttle’s second presentation was offered as part of a panel about publishing in scholarly journals. Tuttle has recently been named Editor-in-Chief of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, the official journal of the SSAWW. On this panel she provided guidelines and suggestions for those interested in publishing in Legacy as well as more general advice for those submitting their work to a scholarly journal.
Posted on: 10/16/2012
Lara Carlson tours Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein and Germany as an invited consultant
Assistant Professor in the Applied Exercise Science program Lara Carlson, Ph.D., CSCS, FACSM, of the Westbrook College of Health Professions, was invited to participate as a consultant for Men’s Ice Hockey Coaches and Athletic Trainers on topics which included hydration and strength and conditioning periodization.
Carlson visited Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, and Germany and traveled with the Castleton Men’s Ice Hockey Team while it played in various divisions in towns such as Feldkirch, Kufstein, Zell am See, and Kitzbühel during the week of October 5-13, 2012.
Carlson, a four time qualifier for the United States Track and Field Nationals and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), was also the former Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Castleton State College Men’s Ice Hockey team.
“It was great to get back into the trenches again and work with the coaching staff and athletes,” noted Carlson.
She was also joined by Jim Tibbets, head coach of the Irish Men’s National Ice Hockey Team and former general manager of the French National Ice Hockey Team.
Posted on: 10/16/2012
UNE President Danielle Ripich publishes column on women in higher education leadership roles
UNE President Danielle Ripich, Ph.D., wrote a column titled "Invest in Yourself: Women in Higher Education Leadership Roles," which was printed in the American Council on Education (ACE) Women's Network newsletter.
She writes: "Women make up the majority of undergraduate students in America today. But women don’t even approach that proportion when it comes to top leadership positions in higher education. So it’s vital that women step up to leadership roles—whether as part of a grand career strategy or as a result of being thrust into the position." Read the entire column.
Posted on: 10/15/2012
Karen Pardue appointed U.S. representative on IANA Advisory Council
Karen Pardue, MS, CNE, ANEF, associate dean, Westbrook College of Health Professions, has been appointed by Sigma Theta Tau, International, the international nursing honor society, to serve as a United States representative on the International Academic Nursing Alliance (IANA) Advisory Council for a two year term.
IANA advances nursing education across the globe to promote scholarship and excellence in nursing education and practice.
Pardue was recognized for her international nursing education expertise through a decade of teaching and administration in the baccalaureate nursing completion program partnership between the University of New England and Israel College in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Posted on: 10/11/2012
David Smith to speak at Innovative Tijuana
Associate Professor David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., of the Department of History & Philosophy, will speak at the second annual Innovative Tijuana event, which will be held October 11-21, 2012, in the Tijuana Cultural Center in Tijuana, Mexico.
Smith will speak on October 19th. His talk is titled “Less than human; understanding the psychological roots of war, genocide and atrocity.”
Innovative Tijuana, or Tijuana Innovadora, is a gathering of experts in such areas as sustainable development, conservation of resources, automobile technology, medical technology, art, and philosophy to showcase work and share experiences. More than 70 free workshops are open to the community, many of them focusing on filmmaking, marketing, ecology, technology, journalism, culinary arts, and television.
Smith is the author of Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others, as well as Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind and The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War.
Posted on: 10/11/2012
George Allen and Andrea Deschambeault author chapter in 'Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy'
Associate Professor George Allen, Pharm.D., and Assistant Professor Andrea Deschambeault, Pharm.D., BCPS, of the UNE College of Pharmacy have authored a new chapter "Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Practice" in Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy, 22nd Edition.
Their chapter highlights the role of pharmacists in infectious diseases management including antimicrobial stewardship, immunization advocacy, and the care of patients infected with HIV.
For more than 100 years, Remington has been the definitive reference for the profession of pharmacy. Joseph P. Remington published the first edition in 1885 and established a foundation for American pharmaceutical literature. Authorship in this preeminent pharmacy textbook is a distinguishing honor and a national recognition of expertise.
Posted on: 10/10/2012
Michael Lawrence, Erin Hartigan, and Chunhao Tu publish in 'Sports Biomechanics'
Michael Lawrence, M.S., biomechanics lab manager and adjunct lecturer, recently published “Lower limb moments differ when towing a weighted sled with different attachment points” in the October issue of Sports Biomechanics. It is Lawrence’s first publication.
The article was co-authored with Erin Hartigan, PT, DPT, PhD, OCS, ATC, assistant professor for the Department of Physical Therapy, and Chunhao Tu, Ph.D., assistant professor from the College of Pharmacy.
Posted on: 10/09/2012
Elizabeth De Wolfe presents at Communal Studies Association annual meeting
Elizabeth De Wolfe, professor and chair of the Department of History & Philosophy, participated in a panel discussion at the recent Communal Studies Association annual meeting. The invited panel of authors and scholars addressed the challenge of "How Communal Studies Scholars Get Their Scholarly Work Done."
De Wolfe's presentation, "Teaching Ongoing Research to Keep Research Ongoing," addressed opportunities for connecting research and scholarship in the classroom. The conference was held in Oneida, New York, at the site of the 19th-century communal group known as the Oneida Perfectionists.
Posted on: 10/08/2012
Jennifer Tuttle publishes review essay on archives-based research
Jennifer Tuttle, Ph.D., Dorothy M. Healy Professor of Literature and Health, Department of English, recently published a review essay titled "Out of the Archives: New Biographical Studies of Charlotte Perkins Gilman."
The review both evaluates major new biographical works on author and social reformer Gilman and addresses debates among scholars on the uses of archival material and the implications of its use for literary analysis. It appeared in Resources for American Literary Study.
Posted on: 10/08/2012
Michael J. Cripps publishes video review of 'Xtranormal for Educators' and its use in the writing classroom
Michael J. Cripps, Ph.D., associate professor and director of composition, Department of English, recently published a review of Xtranormal for Educators, a cloud-based, text-to-speech animation tool used in both K-12 and higher education classrooms.
The review, an animated video that uses Xtranormal to examine the instructional technology's potential for the writing classroom, appears in the Tool Tips section of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.
Posted on: 10/05/2012
Matthew Anderson and Cathrine Frank's book 'Options for Teaching Law and Literature' reviewed in 'Law and the Humanities'
Posted on: 10/05/2012
Matthew Anderson publishes article in 'Studies in Law, Politics, and Society'
Matthew Anderson, Ph.D., associate professor and chair, Department of English, has published an article, "Nomos and Form: reading A Jury of Her Peers and 'The Problem of Judgment' in Procedure," in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Volume 58, Special Issue: The Discourse of Judging.
Posted on: 10/05/2012
Matthew Anderson presents paper at Critical Legal Conference 2012, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Matthew Anderson, Ph.D., associate professor and chair, Department of English, presented a paper, "After Eden: Law and Literature in a Secular Age," at the Critical Legal Conference 2012, September 14-16, hosted by the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Posted on: 10/05/2012
Denise Giuvelis, Nicholas McGlinchey and Ed Bilsky publish research article in ‘Journal of Medicinal Chemistry’
Three members of the Bilsky laboratory are co-authors on a recent article published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. The paper, titled “14-Alkoxy- and 14-Acyloxypyridomophinans: Mixed Mu Agonist/Delta Antagonist Opioid Analgesics with Diminished Tolerance and Dependence Side Effects” investigated novel compounds for the treatment of acute and chronic pain.
The team that carried out the project included UNE staff member Denise Giuvelis (’07), current COP student and CAS alum Nicholas McGlinchey and Edward Bilsky, Ph.D., associate provost for research and scholarship and professor of biomedical sciences in COM. The work was done in collaboration with long-time colleagues at Southern Research Institute and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Citation: Ananthan, S., Saini, S.K., Dersch, C.M., Xu, H., McGlinchey, N., Giuvelis, D., Bilsky, E.J. and Rothman, R.B. 14-Alkoxy- and 14-Acyloxypyridomophinans: Mixed Mu Agonist/Delta Antagonist Opioid Analgesics with Diminished Tolerance and Dependence Side Effects. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. E-pub, September 2012.
Posted on: 10/04/2012
Ali Ahmida interviewed in documentary on Gaddafi's Libya
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the UNE political science program, appears in a documentary video that was taped in June 2011 while Ahmida was at the United Nations in New York, where he spoke to the UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA) and the Department of Peace Keeping Missions.
The talk was attended by 40 top UN advisors from around the world and chaired by Aracelli Santana from the DPA's Africa Division. Ahmida discussed "After Qaddafi: The Challenges of Building a Civil Democratic System."
At the time Ahmida was interviewed by UN correspondent Nizar Abboud for a documentary on "Gaddafi's Libya," which is available on YouTube in English and Arabic.
Ahmida is the author of The Making of Modern Libya: State Formation, Colonialization and Resistance, and several other books on Libya and North Africa. Find out more about Ahmida and read and listen to a number of his other recent interviews.
Posted on: 10/04/2012
Susan McHugh to give lecture at Bowdoin College Museum of Art
On October 4, 2012, Professor of English Susan McHugh, Ph.D., will give a lecture titled "Wegman's Weimaraners and Other Animals in Contemporary Art" as part of the exhibition "William Wegman: Hello, Nature" at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art:
McHugh is the author of Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines, 2011, in the University of Minnesota Press’s Posthumanities series, as well as Dog, 2004, a volume in Reaktion Books’ groundbreaking Animal series.
Through comparisons with trends in representing and theorizing animals in art, her talk will help to illuminate why this prolific contemporary artist finds enthusiastic audiences in such diverse venues as the Whitney Museum of American Art and Sesame Street.
Posted on: 10/03/2012
Ali Ahmida publishes in ‘Journal of the Middle East and Africa’
Professor Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Political Science, recently published an article titled "Libya, Social Origin of Dictatorship and the Challenge for Democracy" in the Journal of the Middle East and Africa.
The article examines the social bases of the Qadhdafi regime and why it lost its support. It also examines the rise of a coalition of middle class and regional opposition forces that generated regional and international support, which succeeded in toppling the regime. Also, it identifies a number of security, social, institutional and economic challenges essential for building a democratic system.
Posted on: 10/02/2012
Susan McHugh’s ‘Animal Stories’ awarded Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize
Professor of English Susan McHugh’s book Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines was awarded the 2012 Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize for the best academic book at Nonhuman, the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, hosted September 27-30, by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
As part of the conference, McHugh worked with Tora Holmberg, Ph.D., of Uppsala University, Sweden, to co-organize a two-panel sequence on the theme “Taking Place: HumAnimal Relations, Space, and Affect,” as part of which McHugh delivered the paper, “Service Animals as Urban Technologies.”
Additionally, McHugh was a participant at the opening roundtable, “Animality Studies and Its Discontents,” and a respondent on the book panel devoted to Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now, an academic book recently published by Kari Weil, Ph.D., university professor of letters at Wesleyan University.
Posted on: 10/01/2012
Heather Dwyer Sadlier presents at the Twelfth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations
Associate Professor of education Heather Dwyer Sadlier presented at the Twelfth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations in Vancouver, BC. In her workshop titled, “Standing Up for the 'Other': Who, Why, and How,” Sadlier shared information from research conducted during her spring 2012 sabbatical.
Sadlier's scholarship focuses on bias, harassment, and hate prevention. Her current research project involves interviewing subjects who choose to humanize “others” and to stand up and/or speak out for these individuals or groups who would not be seen as members of their own “tribe.”
Sadlier probes for the impactful factors that lead to these decisions to make a difference in the lives of others. One of the narratives in Sadlier’s growing collection features Jane Starke, a UNE education major, class of 2013, who started “making a difference” as a high school junior by founding a non-profit to fund water filters for people living in Haiti. At UNE, Starke created opportunities for students to spend their spring break in the Dominican Republic tutoring English language learners.
Another of Sadlier’s interview subjects was Steve Wessler, former Maine Assistant Attorney General and founder of the Center for Preventing Hate in Portland, Maine. Although the Center closed in 2011, Wessler continues his diversity consulting work, both nationally and internationally.
Posted on: 9/28/2012
Lara Carlson organizes UNE’s first Wicked Good Sports Medicine Symposium
Assistant Professor in the Applied Exercise Science Program Lara Carlson, Ph.D., FACSM, CSCS, recently served as program director for the Wicked Good Sports Medicine Symposium, hosted by the University of New England. The symposium featured a panel of six internationally renowned speakers in the field of sports medicine.
The event, held in the newly opened Alfond Forum of the Biddeford Campus on September 14, 2012, was a tremendous success, drawing a crowd of over 400 people who attended or gathered at the Harold Alfond Center for Health Sciences to watch the live streamed version of the presentations.
Students from Westfield State College in Westfield, Massachusetts, and Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont, traveled to the symposium, as well as military personnel from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Massachusetts.
The success of the symposium was noted by speaker J. Timothy Lightfoot Ph.D., RCEP, CES, FACSM, of Texas A&M University in a congratulatory comment to Carlson: “The symposium was well organized, the speakers were fantastic and you had an engaged audience. These are all characteristics of a great event. From a speaker standpoint, I was impressed with the logistics and how you got the community involved in the event. I'm sure that through your outreach, this event further heightened the awareness of UNE in your region. I was honored to be a part of it!”
Carlson, too, was pleased with the symposium. She states, "I was impressed by how many professionals, faculty and students traveled from several hours away from other states to attend this event. I think that reflects the quality of speakers we had present. It was also exciting to host the first annual "Wicked Good Sports Medicine Symposium" in the newly completed Alfond Forum. Several attendees remarked about how beautiful the venue was and that you could still smell the fresh paint!"
In addition to Lightfoot, the panel of speakers included Daniel Lieberman, Ph.D., Harvard University; Samuel Headley, Ph.D., RCEP, CSCS, FACSM, Springfield College; Stella Lucia Volpe, Ph.D., RD, LDN, FACSM, Drexel University; Samuel N. Cheuvront, Ph.D., RD, FACSM, United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine; and David Epstein, M.A., M.S., Sports Illustrated.
The event was made possible by the sponsorship of various local businesses, including: AV Technik, The Breakwater Inn & Spa, CareFusion, Goodall Hospital, iworx, King’s Port Inn, The M.O.G. Medically Oriented Gym, The Nonantum Resort, ParvoMedics, PartyPlus, Quest Fitness, Saco Bay Physical Therapy, Shipyard Brewing Co., and Wun-Jo.
Posted on: 9/25/2012
Anouar Majid gives lecture in Morocco to American students; urges them to engage Moroccans in dialogue
On September 20, 2012, Director of the Center for Global Humanities and Associate Provost for Global Initiatives Anouar Majid gave a lecture titled "Fall of the Arab Spring" at the Cross Cultural Center for Learning in Rabat, Morocco to about 60 American students who are doing research in the country.
The lecture, which was also attended by Moroccans, took place in the midst of the recent YouTube controversy (over a movie trailer that mocked Islam’s prophet Muhammad) that captured world attention.
Majid urged the American students to be more than researchers in Morocco, to engage Moroccans as Americans and to contribute to the dialogue between the U.S. and the world of Islam. He asked them to transcend their disciplines and not to be afraid to uphold American values if and when warranted.
Posted on: 9/24/2012
Noah Perlut to speak about gray squirrels
Assistant Professor Noah Perlut, Ph.D., of the Department of Environmental Studies, will speak on September 25, 2012, at 6:30 p.m. at the Topsham Public Library as part of the monthly naturalist seminar series held by the Cathance River Education Alliance. His talk is titled “Common but totally unknown: Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) habitat use in southern Maine.”
According to Perlut, little research has been done on the gray squirrel, despite its common presence. Two years ago, his students began tracking squirrels with ear tags and radio collars. Perlut hopes his students will be the first to determine the average size of gray squirrels.
Posted on: 9/24/2012
John Stubbs publishes article in ‘Theoretical Chemistry Accounts’
John Stubbs, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, recently published an article titled "The influence of carbon dioxide cosolvent on solubility in poly(ethylene glycol)" in the journal Theoretical Chemistry Accounts.
This work investigated how carbon dioxide changes the solvent properties of the polymer poly(ethylene glycol). While non-polar molecules were not affected, polar ones were found to have increased solubility. The results can be applied to environmentally-friendly reaction and separation systems that replace volatile organic compounds.
The work included research carried out with student researcher Michael Huber (Biochemistry '13).
Posted on: 9/24/2012
Christine Feurt presents at Maine Water Utilities Association Drinking Water Protection Seminar
Christine Feurt, Ph.D., in the Department of Environmental Studies and director of the Center for Sustainable Communities at UNE, presented a talk on collaborative watershed management at the Maine Water Utilities Association Drinking Water Protection Seminar in Augusta on September 18, 2012.
“Common Interests, Shared Solutions” was the theme for the 6th annual seminar. Feurt’s talk, “The Salmon Falls Watershed Collaborative: Working Together to Get Things Done,” shared lessons learned from formation and work of the award winning Salmon Falls Watershed Collaborative.
The Collaborative, whose partnership is facilitated by Feurt, received the 2012 U.S. Water Prize from the Clean Water America Alliance. The Prize recognized two years of focused effort to build a collaborative partnership among municipalities, drinking water providers, watershed groups, land trusts, and state and federal partners to protect drinking water in the communities of the Salmon Falls Watershed, which encompasses portions of Maine and New Hampshire and which drains to the Piscataqua River.
Feurt reported on important lessons learned about the challenges and benefits of forming and sustaining the partnership and elements of successful collaboration discovered as a result of this work.
Posted on: 9/20/2012
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