UNE in the News Archive
Bangor Daily News story draws on UNE's Interprofessional Education Symposium for story on chronic pain
The Bangor Daily News published an April 18, 2013 story on chronic pain, drawing in part on UNE's Spring Interprofessional Education Symposium, "The Science of Pain and the Art of Healing," that was held on April 4th.
The story quotes Paula Orecklin, 25, of Winnipeg, Canada, who spoke at the symposium about how she has suffered with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome since age 13, when a twisted ankle quickly devolved into a nightmare of agony and revolving doctor’s offices.
The story also mentions UNE's recent $10 million award from the National Institutes of Health to fund the UNE Center of Biomedical Research Excellence for the Study of Pain and Sensory Function.
Ed Bilsky, Ph.D., UNE associate provost for research and scholarship and director of the Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences, is also quoted, describing the symposium as only part of what UNE is doing to transform the nature of pain treatment education.
"We have created much of the content needed to highlight chronic pain as one of the most serious health issues facing the country," he said. "With fresh perspectives I think we are making huge progress in better educating future health professionals as well as making positive impacts on the communities we live in, and the state of Maine." Read the entire story.
The symposium was coordinated by the UNE Westbrook College of Health Professions' InterProfessional Education Collaborative: Shelley Cohen Konrad, Ph.D., director, and Kris Hall, program coordinator.
Posted on: 04/20/2013
Press Herald publishes Dean Gayle Brazeau's column on UNE's first graduating class of pharmacists
The Portland Press Herald on April 18, 2013 published a Maine Voices column by UNE College of Pharmacy Dean Gayle A. Brazeau, Ph.D., titled "New era in patient care coming with pharmacy class graduation."
In discussing UNE's first graduating class of pharmacists, Dean Brazeau writes: "The Class of 2013 has already provided over 80,000 hours of supervised care through their introductory pharmacy practice and advanced pharmacy practice experiences to patients in Maine and beyond.
"Our students in this class are innovative and creative leaders and entrepreneurs. They have started new professional and fraternal service organizations, raised $1,800 for the Make A Wish Foundation and taken key leadership roles in coordinating drug take-back programs in and around the greater Portland area, to name just a few of their many achievements."
She adds: "Pharmacists working closely with other members of a patient-centered health care team play a role in the three key elements we are striving for in the contemporary health care environment, specifically to improve patient care outcomes, increase patient access to health care and reduce health care costs." Read the entire column.
Posted on: 04/18/2013
Jim Cavanaugh discusses Parkinson's disease and exercise on the Dr. Lisa Radio Hour
Jim Cavanaugh, PT, Ph.D., assistant professor of physical therapy, was interviewed on the Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast for a program on Parkinson's disease that ran on Sunday April 14,2013 on WPEI and WLOB Portland.
Cavanaugh, a Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Neurologic Physical Therapy, joined Jaclyn Morrill, a clinical exercise physiologist with the Medically Oriented Gym, with whom Cavanaugh has been collaborating on a research program to measure the outcomes of exercise with people diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Listen to the podcast.
Posted on: 04/15/2013
Noah Perlut's bobolink research discussed in Burlington Free Press story
Research on bobolinks conducted by Noah Perlut, Ph.D., UNE assistant professor of environmental studies, was discussed in a story in the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press on April 13, 2013 titled "Experiment tests whether bobolink payment plan will fly: Researchers ask whether Champlain Valley residents are willing to pledge money to help the survival of grassland birds."
Perlut and his colleagues' research over the past decade tracked bobolink migration and nesting in the Champlain Valley. They found that bobolinks in the valley's hayfields will mate again if their May nests are destroyed. If a farmer delays the next cut 65 days, bobolinks will make the most of that second chance and successfully raise a new set of nestlings.
The trouble is, delaying that second cut reduces the value of the hay and might make a third hay harvest impossible. Most farmers can’t afford to take the loss.
Researchers from the University of Connecticut are conducting a new research project to determine whether people are willing to pledge money to reimburse farmers for allowing the bobolinks the time needed for successful nesting. Read the entire story. Also read an earlier Free Press story on Perlut's research.
Posted on: 04/15/2013
Portland Phoenix reviews Art Gallery's Maine Women Pioneers III - Worldview
The Portland Phoenix on April 4, 2013 reviewed the UNE Art Gallery's current exhibition "Maine Women Pioneers III - Worldview," the third in a four part series.
Reviewer Nicholas Schroeder writes that "the show's great pleasures come from tracking the real-world inquiries leading these artists far from the conventions of form."
"But of all these worldly explorations and several more," Schroeder says, "I was most fixated by the work of Judith Allen-Efstathiou. Through several stark lithographs and drawings on tracing paper, she delivers three harrowing biopsies of tree species whose habitats were decimated by blight: one in Portland, one in the Appalachians, and another in Greece, which she smartly ties to that country's economic crisis and ill-conceived austerity program. The work is simple and sleek, and its import is evenly weighted between the larger topic and the artist's investment in it. If you're going to tarry in the rarefied terrain of visual art, there seems no more ethical way to take on the world." Read the entire review.
Posted on: 04/11/2013
Anouar Majid interviewed by Moroccan media during visit
Anouar Majid, Ph.D.UNE associate provost for global initiatives and director of the Center for Global Humanities, was recently in Morocco during the two-day visit of France’s president, Francois Hollande. Majid participated in several radio programs and panel discussions about Islam and the West, with most of the discussion focused on France. Among those panels was a radio program titled "Is there an Islam or Muslims? by Luxe Radio. The program took place in Casablanca and participants included Tareq Oubrou, Grand Imam of the mosque in Bordeaux (France) and Rachid Id Yassine, Doctor of Social Sciences of Religion. Listen to the program in French.
Majid also discussed his book Islam and America: Building a Future without Prejudice in an program in Arabic, which is available on YouTube.
In Rabat, Majid invited his audience of students, faculty and members of the press to think about the difference between belief and critical thinking when making sense of Islam and its meaning. Two Moroccan diplomats who had served in the U.S. attended.
Majid is the author of five critically acclaimed books on Islam and the West 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: 04/11/2013
Globe and Patriot Ledger cover release of sea turtles rehabilitated at UNE
The Boston Globe and Patriot Ledger on April 7th ran stories on 28 sea turtles - including five from UNE's Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center - that were taken in a caravan from Maine to Florida, with pickup stops along the way in Boston and Baltimore.
The five turtles are the last of 14 loggerheads that spent up to four months recovering from severe hypothermia at UNE. Of the 14 that were brought to MARC, 13 survived.
The Globe interviewed Kristen Patchett, UNE MARC marine animal rehabilitation coordinator, who discussed the five loggerheads rehabilitated at UNE.
When one washes up, researchers have the opportunity to study a noncaptive sea turtle unusually closely, Patchett said.
“The strandings are pretty much the only way that students . . . can get experience working with them,” she said.
The Patriot Ledger also reported on the release of the turtles on Sunday, April 7th at Little Talbot Island in a state park in Jacksonville, Fla.
Read the Globe and Ledger stories. Watch two videos from earlier New England Cable News and Portland Press Herald stories. A number of other local and regional media outlets also ran stories on the turtles.
Posted on: 04/09/2013
WGME's 'Your Health' features UNE's Spring Symposium on chronic pain
WGME 13's Kim Block, who was a moderator for a panel discussion during UNE's Eleventh Annual Interprofessional Education Spring Symposium on "The Science of Pain and the Art of Healing" on April 4th, also featured the symposium on her news segment "Your Health."
In the segment, Block noted that "there are an estimated 100 million chronic pain patients around the country - many of them are wanting to be heard, let alone treated. Thursday, they were at least ‘heard’ at a symposium put on by the University of New England, hoping to remove some of the myths about chronic pain patients."
Among those interviewed for the story, Edward Bilsky, Ph.D., UNE associate provost for research and scholarship and director of the Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences, told Block that:"We're hoping to dispel these [myths] and educate the future physicians, the future pharmacists, the future physical therapists and social workers so they can better listen to the patient in pain and understand it as disease rather than symptoms."
Shelley Cohen Konrad, Ph.D., LCSW, associate professor, UNE School of Social Work, and director, UNE InterProfessional Education Collaborative, was also interviewed: "I think if we added science and compassion and the capacity to see this as a significant disease process rather than a secondary condition there would be a human savings in suffering and financial savings for all areas of life."
Watch the WGME video. Also read more about the symposium, watch videos about chronic pain and profiles of people who suffer from chronic pain.
Posted on: 04/06/2013
Regional and local media cover UNE preparations for release of loggerhead turtles
Regional and local media - including New England Cable News and the Portland Press Herald - on April 3, 2013 covered the UNE Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center's preparations for the transportation of five loggerhead turtles in a caravan down the East Coast from Maine to Florida, with pickup stops along the way in Boston and Baltimore. A total of 29 turtles will be released to the wild in Florida on Saturday.
The five turtles are the last of 14 loggerheads that spent up to four months recovering from severe hypothermia at UNE. Of the 14 that were brought to MARC, 13 survived.
NECN reported that on Wednesday, every turtle was weighed, measured and biopsied. Then they were outfitted with tags; two on the rear flippers and a third microchip ID tag that will tell each turtle's story if it's ever located again.
NECN's Amy Sinclair explained that it's a lot of work rescuing the turtles, but critical for this threatened species survival.
"Their numbers are dwindling due to pollution, climate change, being entangled in fishing gear and loss of nesting habitat," said Kristen Patchett, the Center's Rehabilitation Coordinator. Animal Lab Technician Asheley Simpson was also interviewed.
In addition to NECN and the Portland Press Herald, media coverage included the Kennebec Journal, WCSH6, WLBZ2, WGME13, and WPRI. View the NECN video and the Press Herald story and video.
Posted on: 04/04/2013
Journal Tribune covers Environmental Physiology students’ Atlantic plunge Iceland trip fundraiser
The April 2, 2013 Journal Tribune (Biddeford) ran a front-page story with photos of an April Fools Day Atlantic plunge by UNE Environmental Physiology students and faculty, along with staff from the UNE Global Education Program. The event was a fund-raiser for a class research trip to Iceland in the spring.
Lara Carlson, Ph.D., assistant professor of applied exercise science, came up with the idea of the plunge because it relates to the research the students will be conducting on their Iceland trip. The group will study how environmental stress affects the body, she told the Journal Tribune. Student Cara Fowler '14 is principal investigator for the research.
This is the second year environmental physiology students will have taken a research trip. In 2012, the class went to Colorado, where they investigated the effects of high altitude on athletic performance.
Posted on: 04/03/2013
'Journal Tribune' reports findings of study on economic impact of UNE
The April 2nd issue of the Journal Tribune featured an article about the release of a recent study of the economic impact of the University of New England on Maine, Southern Maine, York County, and Biddeford.
The study, which was conducted by Chuck Lawton of Planning Decisions Inc., found that UNE’s economic impact in Maine has grown 31 percent in the last three years to $738 million.
The study reported that UNE students spend $33 million in the State of Maine and that spending generated by the university creates over $22 million in state and local tax revenue.
UNE, an employer of over 425 people living in York County, is ranked seventh among the largest employers in the county. It spends $32 of its $69 million in non-personnel operating expenses at Maine businesses, the vast majority of which are in southern Maine.
UNE’s impact on the City of Biddeford is highlighted in the article. City Manager John Bubier told the Journal that there is a strong “town and gown” connection between Biddeford and University of New England, pointing out that approximately 10 percent of the city’s population is comprised of UNE students who shop at local stores, eat at local restaurants and patronize other local businesses. “UNE is a major part of the local economy and a major part of the community, no matter how you say it,” said Bubier.
Posted on: 04/03/2013
UNE’s graduate student trip to Washington County as part of new Cultural Competency in Health Care course makes front page of 'Quoddy Tides'
The March 22nd issue of The Quoddy Tides featured a front page article about a group of UNE graduate students who traveled to Washington County for an experiential/cultural immersion experience as part of a new course, Cultural Competency in Health Care. The aim of the course is to develop students’ awareness of cultural differences in specific communities in order to better serve them.
The article mentions that the graduate students were scheduled to meet with a group of Eastport seventh and eighth graders with the hope of sparking the children’s interest in the healthcare fields.
Posted on: 03/28/2013
WCSH 6 and MPBN cover Marilyn Gugliucci’s announcement of Maine GLBT Aging report results
WCSH 6 News and MPBN recently covered the announcement by Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., director of geriatrics education and research, at a press conference at the State House in Augusta on March 22, 2013, of the results of a statewide gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) aging report that was conducted by AARP Maine in 2012. Gugliucci spoke on behalf of AARP Maine and SAGE (Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders), of which she is a founding board member.
Coverage by WCSH 6 News, which included footage of an interview with Gugliucci, and the MPBN story about the report’s release aired the day of the press conference.
Gugliucci served as first author on the report. It details initial goals that would address the adversely affected health and happiness of older members of the GLBT population in Maine.
Posted on: 03/26/2013
Freshman Elizabeth Eddy featured in 'Biddeford-Saco-OOB Courier' and 'Bangor Daily News'
The Biddeford-Saco-OOB Courier and The Bangor Daily News featured articles on March 14th and 25th, respectively, about UNE student Elizabeth Eddy, a freshman medical biology major from Saco, who will be competing at the Irish Dancing World Championships March 28, 2013, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. Eddy is the only Maine female in her age category to qualify for the 2013 Worlds. She will compete against about 125 other dancers who qualified in competitions around the world.
Eddy was introduced to Irish dancing when she was 5 years old and began training more competitively at the age of 9. She now dances with the elite Murray Irish Dance Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire.
The World Irish Dancing Championship is the largest and most prestigious Feis in the world, attracting competitors from as far away as Ireland, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.
Read the Bangor Daily News article
Posted on: 03/25/2013
Add Verb Productions’ ‘You the Man’ featured on Futures Without Violence website
UNE’s Add Verb Productions’ play “You the Man” is featured on a new website for the national organization Futures Without Violence as a federally approved violence prevention program.
“You the Man” is an entertaining, results-based educational program that uses theater to address the bystander role in dating violence prevention. It was written by Add Verb Productions’ Executive Director Cathy Plourde.
Posted on: 03/22/2013
Maine Sunday Telegram reviews Art Gallery's 'Maine Women Pioneers III: Worldview'
Kany writes: "'Worldview' at the University of New England Art Gallery in Portland might be a philosophical mess, but it's an interesting and worthy exhibition. The third installment of the four-part exhibition "Maine Women Pioneers III" raises more questions than it answers.
"That mess, after all, is too important socially, culturally and philosophically for us to let it be whitewashed into oblivion. And yet someone will inevitably ask: "Why a show about women artists in 2013; haven't they caught up already?" Read the review.
Posted on: 03/20/2013
Anouar Majid interviewed for Journal Tribune story on McArthur Library's NEH Muslim Journeys Bookshelf grant
The Journal Tribune on March 16th published a story on McArthur Library's (Biddeford) award of a National Endowment for the Humanities Muslim Journeys Bookshelf grant, which is allowing the library to expand its selection of materials on Islamic culture.
The story interviews Anouar Majid, Ph.D., UNE director of the Center for Global Humanities and associate provost for global initiatives, who has assisted in the development of McArthur's materials on Islam and given talks at the library.
Majid told the Journal that he understands why many people have a lot of misconceptions about Muslims, especially after the terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001.
“It’s only normal for people to be suspicious of Islam since 9/11” and what they see and read in the news, he said.
Through his talks at the library, and around the state, Majid tries to explain how Islam affects believers and their culture and to make Muslim culture more relatable to Americans. Read the story.
The Biddeford-Saco-OOB Courier also published a short article on the grant and Majid's role with the library. Read the story.
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: 03/17/2013
UNE Add Verb Productions' 'You the Man' discussed in Christian Science Monitor and Boston Globe stories on teen dating violence.
The University of New England Add Verb Productions' "You the Man" theater production was discussed in a March 9, 2013 Boston Globe story and a March 13 Christian Science Monitor story both on teen dating violence.
“You the Man” is a internationally touring production empowering bystanders to help friends or family members dealing with abuse or violence.
The CSM story focused on a Steubenville, Ohio rape trial. In the trial, a judge will decide if two teenage boys raped a 16-year-old girl after a party. The case garnered international attention when accusations arose about the boys being protected as members of a popular football team. The Globe story focused on a Massachusetts murder conviction of a teen who killed a girl he had been dating.
The CSM story looks at a nationwide movement to include teen-dating violence prevention in school curriculums.
Both stories note that the Wayland, Mass. community had an opportunity to confront relationship violence Friday night during a discussion after a performance of “You the Man."
The CSM story explains that surveys of “You the Man” audiences in 2007-08 found that 83 percent learned how to identify the warning signs of dating abuse and sexual violence, and 87 percent learned where to go for help if they or someone they know is in danger or has been victimized. Read the Globe story and read the CSM story.
Posted on: 03/14/2013
WCSH6 covers opening of 'Your Brain on Art'
WCSH6 News covered the March 8th opening of "Your Brain on Art," a collaborative exhibition by the Biddeford arts organization Engine and the UNE's Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences (CEN).
The story reported that the exhibit coincides with national Brain Awareness Week March 11-17 and will involve other activities and events.
As part of the exhibition, which opened at the Engine Gallery in Biddeford, UNE art professor Sarah Gorham is exhibiting work portraying her and her father’s journey following his diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor and his ultimate passing because of the cancer. Gorham discusses the experience in the WCSH video.
The exhibition also features award-winning artists who have been impacted by brain injury, trauma or chronic pain, including Jon Sarkin, Nancy Andrews, Karen Musick, and Jenn Shifflett.
Commenting on the exhibition, Edward Bilsky, Ph.D., associate provost for research and scholarship and CEN founding director, explains in the video that "the brain makes us human - so even seemingly small changes in the brain chemistry and the re-wiring of the brain after an injury can change fundamentally who we are."
Cathy Plourde, director of of UNE's Add Verb Productions, Holly Haywood, UNE senior multi media specialist, and Mike Vickery, UNE simulation and technology specialist, also have works from the Portraits of Pain series, created for UNE's upcoming InterProfessional Education Collaborative 2013 Spring Symposium, titled "The Science of Pain and The Art of Healing."
Watch the WCSH video and find out more about events related to the exhibition.
Posted on: 03/11/2013
Christine Feurt receives national estuarine award
The March 7th edition of Seacoast Online featured an article about Christine Feurt, Ph.D., director of the Center for Sustainable Communities, co-director of the Saco River Estuary Project, and assistant lecturer in the Department of Environmental Science. Feurt recently received the National Estuarine Research Reserve System and National Estuarine Research Reserve Association Award, which is given annually to those who have made outstanding contributions to the reserve system.
Feurt won the award for designing and developing a highly effective Coastal Training Program at the Wells Reserve, where she serves as coordinator for the program.
Said Feurt: “I want people to be able to take their grandchildren to the same fishing hole they went to as a child with their grandparent and have the fish still be there. It’s important that the things I care about are taken care of so they are there for the next generation.”
Posted on: 03/07/2013
WCSH covers National Ocean Sciences Bowl competition at UNE
WCSH6 news featured the Nor'easter Bowl competition hosted by UNE on Feb. 23rd. The event was the regional round of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl.
Fifteen teams from Northern New England answered questions about marine science, until one team, from Windham, N.H., earned the top ranking and advanced to the nationals. Watch the video.
Posted on: 03/05/2013
Press Herald, WCSH6 feature UNE women's team as they head into NCAA tournament
As they head into the NCAA tournament tonight (Friday), the UNE women's basketball team garnered stories from the Portland Press Herald and WCSH6. The Commonwealth Coast Conference Champs play Bridgewater State, champion of the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference, in the first game of a doubleheader at Amherst College tonight at 5 p.m.
The Bangor Daily News also featured a story on the family of Whitney Moore '15, UNE forward. Whitney and her two brothers are all in tournament games at the same time tonight and scheduling is a problem.
The Press Herald interviewed Anthony Ewing, CCC Coach of the Year, and Beth Suggs '13, CCC Player of the Year; WCSH interviewed Suggs. Read the Press Herald story and watch the WCSH video. Also read the BDN story.
Posted on: 03/01/2013
Sun Chronicle features COM honor society's involvement with home for elderly
The Sun Chronicle on Feb. 27, 2013 published a feature story on the UNE College of Osteopathic Medicine's Sigma Sigma Phi student honor society's involvement with the elderly residents of the McArthur Home in Biddeford.
For the past six years members of Sigma Sigma Phi have put on ice cream socials, spaghetti dinners, Valentine’s Day dances and more for the residents at the low-income retirement and assisted living home on Elm Street.
But according to Dean Wolfarht, the director of the McArthur Home, “The residents love the interaction. They view the students as sort of a combination of their own children, their grandchildren and memories of themselves. I think they also think it's pretty cool to be involved with (these) very talented and smart students. It makes them feel special.”
Maia Martinez-Heath, president of the Sigma Sigma Phi honor society told the Chronicle: “I enjoy the time away from (studying) to interact with such special people,” she said. “I love holding hands with the residents, and exchanging hugs and kisses. I enjoy watching them indulge in the treats we bring.” Read the entire story.
Posted on: 02/27/2013
Bangor Daily News runs story on upcoming NURDS undergraduate research symposium
The symposium, originated with funding from the National Science Foundation and now supported by the UNE Provost’s Office, is the largest interdisciplinary undergraduate research conference in northern New England. It is created, organized and run each year by undergraduate students.
Markus Frederich, Ph.D., associate professor in marine sciences and founder and faculty coordinator of NURDS, and Caitlin Tetreau, a history/secondary education major at UNE and one of the NURDS student organizers, are quoted. Read the story.
Posted on: 02/27/2013
Cathy Plourde's talk in Lewiston covered by Sun Journal
The Sun Journal covered a talk by Cathy Plourde, director of UNE's Add Verb Productions, that she gave at the Great Falls Forum at the Lewiston Public Library on Feb. 21, 2013.
Plourde spoke on "Arts, Advocacy & Action: Acting as if Our Lives Depended on It", sharing some of Add Verb's work in public health and education.
She read parts from her play, "You the Man." Since the playwright founded Add Verb Productions in 2000, "You the Man," about dating violence, and "The Thin Line," about eating disorders, have been performed in schools around the country, seen by 150,000 people in 35 states. Read the story.
Posted on: 02/25/2013
The Forecaster interviews Jen Morton about the new community 'CHANNELS' project for improving immigrant health care
The Forecaster on Feb. 19th ran a story on a new federally-funded program aimed at preparing future health professionals to serve immigrants, refugees and other underserved populations that is a cooperative program between UNE and the Portland Community Health Center, in collaboration with the City of Portland, the Portland Housing Authority and Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services.
The project, titled 'CHANNELS,' is made possible by a $1.27 million grant to UNE and Portland Community Health Center from the Health Services Research Administration (HRSA).
“It really is a project that is designed to improve the health of immigrants and refugees in Portland and it could be translated to really any area that has a large number of that population,” Jen Morton, associate professor of nursing and director of Cross Cultural Health Initiatives at UNE, told the Forecaster. “It is doing that by increasing the capacity for students to be better equipped to take care of these patients and help existing health professionals.”
Morton said that while a lot of outside work has been done to prepare the program, it really begins in the classroom.
“We are starting in the classroom, providing better education (to nursing students) on cultural competence and immigrant and refugee health. Then we are taking students and providing experiential, clinical and preceptor-based experiences so they are able to use these skills in that setting,” said Morton. Read the story
Posted on: 02/25/2013
Local TV stations cover UNE Career Fair
UNE’s Westbrook College of Health Professions’ 11th annual Health Professions Career Fair on Feb. 20, 2013 was covered by three TV news stations: WCSH6, WMTW8 and WGME13. The news crews interviewed various participants, including Jeff Nevers, Career Services coordinator for the Portland Campus.
"Healthcare overall in relation to other industries in employment is pretty rosy," Nevers told WCSH6. "I get contacted by recruiters from literally all over the country looking for physician assistants, physical therapists. I can't keep up with them, quite honestly." Read the WCSH story.
Posted on: 02/21/2013
Ali Ahmida interviewed by HuffPost Live about Libya's future
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the UNE political science program, was interviewed on Feb. 17, 2013 by Huff Post Live in a program looking at Libya, two years after the start of the uprising that ousted Muammar Gaddafi from power. Ahmida joined three other experts on Libya,looking at how Libya can fulfill the goals of its revolution and what responsibility the international community has to assist Libya in reaching those goals. Watch to the 32-minute video.
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: 02/21/2013
Jerry Mullin profiled in Seacoastonline following his Ludcke Chair lecture
Jerome Mullin, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and the 2013 Ludcke Chair of Arts and Sciences, was profiled on Seacoastonline Feb. 14th. Mullin presented the annual Ludcke Chair Lecture on Feb.6th.
The lecture provided an overview of his continuing journey as a teacher/scholar with emphasis on the development of his research program in the applications of luminescence spectroscopy. He also discussed some of his earlier work in chemiluminescence and bioluminescence, and his current work involving the characterization of new compounds with unusual fluorescence characteristics and the potential for use in optoelectronic devices. Read the story.
Posted on: 02/14/2013
Anouar Majid interviewed by Moroccan newspaper on the future of the Muslim world
A major Moroccan newspaper, Al Massae, published a long interview with UNE Associate Provost for Global Initiatives Anouar Majid, Ph.D., on American-Muslim relations, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the Moroccan-Spanish relations.
The opening editorial describes Majid's work as controversial to set the ground for the answers he gives in the article. Majid says that the Muslim world has no option but to learn from the United States, revise its history and traditions, and approach the conflict in the Middle East with a sense of realism, not messianic visions.
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: 02/14/2013
MPBN radio covers new community 'CHANNELS' project for improving immigrant health care
MPBN radio on Feb. 12th and 13th ran stories on a new federally-funded program aimed at preparing future health professionals to serve immigrants, refugees and other underserved populations that is a cooperative program between UNE and the Portland Community Health Center, in collaboration with the City of Portland, the Portland Housing Authority and Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services.
The project, titled 'CHANNELS,' is made possible by a $1.27 million grant to UNE and Portland Community Health Center from the Health Services Research Administration (HRSA).
The story explains that the Portland Community Health Center will provide a clinical site for students to rotate through. The program will provide nurses and other current health care practitioners with training in leadership, community engagement and collaboration, and provide training for additional community health outreach workers. Listen to the MPBN radio story on this news report at 13.15 minutes into the report.
Posted on: 02/13/2013
Commercial Fisheries News highlights signifcance of James Sulikowski's research on movement patterns of spiny dogfish
UNE Associate Professor James Sulikowski’s research on movement patterns of the spiny dogfish, a small shark, was featured in the February 2013 issue of Commercial Fisheries News. The article cites his recent research studies that counter the long-held belief that spiny dogfish migrate south for the winter and return to New England each spring.
Using a combination of data on water temperature, depth, and geolocation estimates obtained from 43 dogfish that were tracked with satellite tags, Sulikowski found that 70 percent of these sharks stayed in the region where they were tagged over the course of a year, moving east-to-west in the water column – to cooler waters in the summer and warmer inshore waters in winter – rather than migrating up and down the U.S. coast.
The study has significant potential impacts on fisheries, catch quotas, and the ecosystem as Sulikowski's research into the trophic impacts of the movement data suggests that the pack-like schooling behavior (tens of thousands of individuals) and overall increasing population size, may result in this shark negatively affecting cod and other commercially important groundfish populations, further exacerbating the plight of the New England fishing industry and the ecosytem in which these fish live.
Posted on: 02/11/2013
Megan Grumbling to join presidential inaugural poet Richard Blanco on MPBN radio's 'Maine Calling' Thursday
Poet Megan Grumbling, UNE developmental writing specialist in the Student Academic Success Center; Richard Blanco, the Maine poet who read at Barack Obama's recent presidential inauguration; and Portland poet and teacher Gibson Fay-LeBlanc will participate in an MPBN radio "Maine Calling" program on "Poetry in Maine" Thursday, Feb. 14 from 12:15 to 1 p.m.
Grumbling's poetry 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: 02/11/2013
Joan Sandell interviewed by WMTW TV for story on health effects of energy drinks
Joan Sandell, DMD, UNE College of Dental Medicine interim director of clinical education & planning, was interviewed for a WMTW 8 News story on Thursday, Feb. 7th on the impact of energy drinks on teeth.
The story interviews local dental experts about a recent study by the Academy of General Dentistry that found that the high acidity of energy drinks can be bad for teeth.
Apart from destroying tooth enamel, Sandell tells viewers that "this high acidity level also has an effect on bone consumption - on bone mass. We know that acid leaches bone from the body." Watch the story.
Posted on: 02/07/2013
Research by UNE medical student Rob Zondervan on CT scan risks is covered by national media
A study by second-year UNE College of Osteopathic Medicine student Rob Zondervan and colleagues indicating that the benefits of CT scans may outweigh cancer risk for young adults was published Feb. 5th in the journal Radiology and covered by a number of media outlets, including U.S. News & World Report.
The new study of young people who underwent CT scans suggests that their risk of dying from a condition related to their radiation exposure is far less than dying from the original disease they faced. Co-investigators for the study are Susanna Lee M.D., Ph.D., and Peter Hahn M.D. Ph.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital.
In addition to U.S. News and World Report, Everyday Health, Medscape, DOTmed.com, Diagnostic Imaging, Science Codex and others also covered the publication of the study.
"From a radiologist's point of view, this actually helps me have a more informed discussion with my patients when we're talking about the risks and benefits of getting a scan," Lee told the media. "It gives me a better assessment as far as explaining what they're up against. It favors getting more information."
The study initially received national attention in May 2012 at the American Roentgen Ray Society annual meeting in Vancouver, when Zondervan and his colleagues first presented their research. At that time U.S. News & World Report, MSN Health, Health Day, MedPageToday.com, AuntMinnie.com and dozens of other online media outlets ran stories on research.
In May Zondervan told AuntMinnie.com (a news outlet for radiologists) that he hopes the study will affect thinking about CT in two ways.
"We now have a list of common CT indications where people interested in radiation reduction can focus their efforts to have maximal impact, and also we now provide mortality rates for these patients showing that, yes, radiation reduction is very important, but also that these patients are at higher risk than the average person, even someone receiving just one scan," he said.
"So it's OK to use CT scanning: These patients are at risk, and the risk of dying from the underlying morbidity is much higher than the risk of dying from radiation-induced cancer," Zondervan said.
"Lowering CT x-ray dose would proportionately decrease the predicted number of radiation- induced cancers, but dose reduction needs to occur in ways that do not result in greater radiologist uncertainty."
Before entering UNE's medical school, Zondervan, was an imaging analysis specialist at the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center: Tumor Imaging Metrics Core in Boston.
Posted on: 02/05/2013
UNE and Deering High's global initiatives partnership covered by the Forecaster
The Forecaster on Jan. 29th ran a story on the new partnership between Deering High School and UNE's Global Initiatives Program.
As a result of the new partnership, Deering students will be able to attend lectures by international experts at UNE’s Portland campus. UNE students who have travelled abroad will also share their experiences with Deering students. UNE faculty will provide professional development for Deering’s staff on topics such as the importance of developing a global outlook. UNE's Associate Provost for Global Initiatives, Anouar Majid, Ph.D., was quoted in the story. Read the story.
Posted on: 02/04/2013
David Smith interviewed about deception on the syndicated radio show The Scholars' Circle
David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., UNE associate professor of philosophy, was a guest on the syndicated radio show The Scholars' Circle, which was broadcast on KPFK Radio Pacifica on Sunday, Feb. 3 and various other stations at other times. Beginning with the news of famed cyclist Lance Armstrong's lies about performance enhancement drugs, Smith, along with philosopher Sissela Bok and the psychologist Charles Ford, discussed theories about deception and lying. Listen to the discussion (which begins at 31:20).
Smith is the author of Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind and Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others, which was winner of the 77th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction.
Posted on: 02/04/2013
Portland Daily Sun covers UNE lecture by James Webb on 'The Trouble with Malaria in Africa'
The Portland Daily Sun published a story on a Jan. 28th lecture by James L. A. Webb, Jr. who spoke on 'The Trouble with Malaria in Africa,' hosted at the UNE Portland Campus by the UNE Center for Global Humanities.
Webb, director of African Studies at Colby College, argued that one of the greatest challenges to health officials was a medical irony: concerted efforts of combining drugs for the affected population with insecticides aimed at malaria-carrying mosquitoes were extremely successful. But the disease has never been fully eradicated. Read the story.
Posted on: 01/31/2013
Nor'easters women's basketball team featured in Press Herald column
The UNE women's basketball team, which was 12-0 heading into Thursday night's game against Gordon College, was the focus of a column by the Portland Press Herald's Steve Solloway.
The column, titled "So young and yet so good for UNE," interviewed Coach Anthony Ewing and the players about their first-place team, which has eight freshmen.
"Last year, with three key seniors who knew it was their last go-round, our practices were more business-like. It was a let's-make-sure-we-get-this-done attitude," said Ewing. "This year I'd say there was a little more unbridled fun and excitement in practice. I'm there to tell them we need to get better."
The column quotes or mentions team members Meg Gribbin '16 (in photo), Lauren Hayden '16, Sadie DiPierro '16, Alanna Vose '16, and Beth Suggs '13. It also includes photos of Suggs and Gribbin. Read the column
Posted on: 01/31/2013
Lynne Rothney-Kozlak interviewed for news story on measuring patient experience
Lynne Rothney-Kozlak, MPH, adjunct faculty member with the MPH Program at UNE and president of Rothney-Kozlak Consulting, LLC was interviewed for a January 2013 Modern Healthcare article titled, "A satisfactory measure? Studies show focus on keeping patients happy can have unintended costs," by Rich Daly.
The article reflects the opinions of several individuals interviewed by the author, many of whom appear skeptical about whether measuring and holding providers accountable for their patients’ experience will improve the quality of care and stem the costs of healthcare.
The author refers to Rothney-Kozlak, as a leading adviser on patient satisfaction to the Premier healthcare alliance, and quotes her statement that “providers are more likely to avoid such patient-driven overtreatment by balancing improvements in population health, experience of care and per capita cost of healthcare.” However, she acknowledges that a comprehensive measurement system that captures the three-part health reform paradigm has not yet been developed. Rich Daly quotes Rothney-Kozlak’s statements that “There's no right answer, per se; it's really a balancing act, and sometimes it's at the patient level and sometimes it's at the population level,” and “To go so far as to say by doing these kinds of measures and holding providers accountable for them you will reduce costs and improve quality is widely accepted by many people, but more research has to be done” to demonstrate that.”
As our healthcare industry moves towards greater provider accountability for their patient populations’ health, experience and cost of care, discussions like this offer a healthy debate through which to consider the most meaningful and effective ways to incent important changes to evaluate that transformation. Having the patients’ voice at the center of that is foundational. Read the article.
Posted on: 01/30/2013
Media cover Lynne Rothney-Kozlak's co-authored paper on 'Measuring Progress Towards Accountable Care'
Lynne Rothney-Kozlak, MPH, adjunct faculty member with the MPH Program for Public Health at UNE and president of Rothney-Kozlak Consulting, co-authored with colleagues from her consulting client, Premier healthcare alliance, a Commonwealth Fund white paper that was published December 14, 2012. The paper, "Measuring Progress Towards Accountable Care" has since been picked up by numerous news outlets including: eWeek, Healthcare Financial Management Association, Healthcare Finance News, Healthcare IT News, and Becker’s Hospital Report.
Premier healthcare alliance analysis, based on data from 59 diverse health systems, suggests that some existing assumptions about needed accountable care organizations (ACO) capabilities may be misleading. Contrary to previous assumptions, dominant market share, employed physicians and financial strength are not essential requirements for a health system to successfully implement an ACO.
To address the lack of data evaluating the readiness of providers to implement ACOs, Premier developed a "capabilities framework" tool to assess health system progress toward meeting the requirements of this complex delivery and payment model. Rothney-Kozlak was instrumental in designing and evaluating data from Premier's framework. Read the paper.
Posted on: 01/30/2013
Josh Pahigian’s 'Strangers on the Beach' reviewed by Portland Phoenix; McArthur Library hosts book talk
Strangers on the Beach by Josh Pahigian, adjunct professor in the Department of English, was reviewed by the Portland Phoenix on Jan. 24, 2013.
Set in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, Strangers on the Beach is a mystery thriller that tells the story of how a small seaside community becomes swept up in the intrigue of character Ferdinand Sevigny, an adventurous millionaire, and all that ensues when he makes a failed attempt to sail blindfolded across the Atlantic.
The reviewer writes: "It's an impressive debut. This suspenseful thriller, imbued with local flavor (settings include Old Orchard Beach landmarks such as The Brunswick and Beach Bagels), is a page-turner with short, snappy chapters that often end in cliffhangers. It would make a great beach read, come to think of it." Read the review.
Pahigian's novel was also featured in The Portland Daily Sun on Jan. 22nd. Read the story.
In addition to those stories, McArthur Public Library in Biddeford will be hosting Pahigian for a book talk and reading Jan 30th at 6:30 p.m.
Pahigian is the author of several books, including The Seventh Inning Stretch, 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out and The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip. Strangers on the Beach is his first published novel.
Posted on: 01/24/2013
Anouar Majid's lecture on Islam and the American Civil Rights Movement covered by Seacoast Online
Seacoast Online published a story on a lecture given by Anouar Majid, Ph.D., associate provost for global initiatives and director of the Center for Global Humanities, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Jan. 21st at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Kennebunk. Majid reflected on the role Islam played in the Civil Rights movement and explored ways to improve American-Muslim relations and make the world a better and safer place for all people.
King, Majid said, expressed "what I would call the gospel of America.... He focused very brilliantly on one of the greatest gospels, if you will, in our age," Majid said referring to King's understanding of the Declaration of Independence. "Because of that seed that was planted in the 18th century, all of this has become possible." Read the story.
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: 01/24/2013
Biology major Paige Sawyer's ‘365 Random Acts of Kindness’ blog featured on Maine Today
Biology major Paige Sawyer '15 was featured in a MaineToday story about her blog, “365 Random Acts of Kindness for 2013.”
As the story explains: "On January 1, the University of New England student launched a blog called “365 Random Acts of Kindness.” The premise is simple: Do something kind for someone else. Every Day. For the entire year.
“There’s a lot of negative stuff in the media,” she said. All that news – from school tragedies to fiscal cliffs – can wear a person down. “People need a little glimmer of hope.” Read the story and the blog.
Posted on: 01/24/2013
James Sulikowski's sturgeon research to air on 'Ocean Mysteries' Jan. 26th
UNE's Associate Professor James Sulikowski's sturgeon research is featured in the upcoming TV program "Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin," scheduled to air this Saturday, January 26th on ABC. Titled "Gone Fishin'," the episode aims "to unravel the mysteries of this colossal ancient fish...the Atlantic Sturgeon."
Corwin and his 9-year-old daughter Maya traveled to Maine last October and boarded the UNE research vessel to observe the research Dr. Sulikowski and his team is conducting to conserve this endangered prehistoric species. They learned about the resurgence of the sturgeon in the Saco River and how UNE researchers obtain and measure their important data.
The episode is scheduled to air this Saturday at 9:30 a.m. For more info, check your local listings or visit the Ocean Mysteries website.
Posted on: 01/22/2013
'Health Affairs' announces UNE’s award of Bingham Program grant
The Bingham Program grant application was co-submitted by Shelley Cohen Konrad, Ph.D., IPEC director and associate professor in the School of Social Work, and Karen Pardue, MS, RN, CNE, ANEF, associate dean of the Westbrook College of Health Professions.
The Bingham Program is a charitable endowment that promotes health and advances medicine in Maine.
Read more about UNE’s Bingham Program grant award.
Read the Health Affairs announcement.
Posted on: 01/22/2013
Dora Anne Mills profiled by Maine magazine
Dora Anne Mills, M.D., M.P.H., UNE vice president for clinical affairs, is the subject of an in-depth profile, titled "With Love, Dr. Dora Anne Mills," in the January issue of Maine magazine. The online version includes 13 photographs.
The story highlights Mills’ volunteer experiences in India, where she worked with Mother Teresa, and in Africa; her career as a pediatrician in Los Angeles and Farmington, Maine; her accomplishments as public health director and director of the Maine Center for Disease Control for 14 years; and her current work and goals at UNE.
The story explains that "on the clinical front, UNE is leading a national movement in interprofessional education to teach students from a variety of disciplines how to work together by designing collaborative experiences both on campus and in clinical settings. Poor teamwork among health professionals leads to approximately 140,000 preventable deaths per year in the United States, a tragedy Mills and her colleagues are fighting one team-ready graduate at a time. They're also actively addressing issues such as obesity, rural health inequalities, and health literacy through a number of public health research and service programs. In the future, they plan to create a school of public health."
Posted on: 01/22/2013
David Smith quoted in Washington Post and other national media on Lance Armstrong's lies
David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., UNE associate professor of philosophy, was quoted in an Associated Press story on famed cyclist Lance Armstrong's lies about performance enhancement drugs.
The story was picked up by the Washington Post, Huffington Post, Sacramento Bee, the Denver Post and more than 40 other media outlets.
Smith, the author of Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind, explains in the AP story that lying "'is as automatic and unconscious as sweating.' He points out that parents teach children at an early age that 'it’s OK to lie, just not to me.' Kids are told to pretend to be grateful for a Christmas gift they don’t want. And they witness their parents lying — about the tooth fairy, and the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus."
Smith was recently named winner of the Cleveland Foundation's 77th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction for his book Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others.
Posted on: 01/19/2013
UNE Clinical Simulation Program mentioned in NATA News
Assistant Clinical Professor Christopher Rizzo, MS, ATC, LAT, CSCS, and the UNE Clinical Simulation Program were mentioned in the January issue of the NATA News, the newsletter for the National Athletic Trainers' Association, for the on-ice program involving local EMS and UNE athletic training staff and security personnel last November.
Rizzo and Assistant Clinical Professor Dawne-Marie Dunbar, MSN/Ed, RN, CNE, of the Department of Nursing, coordinated an interprofessional exercise in which one of UNE's 3G wireless mannequins was outfitted fully with hockey equipment and used to simulate a traumatic cervical spine injury on the ice of the new Harold Alfond Forum.
Kristen Bailey, MS, ATC, LAT, an assistant clinical professor in the Athletic Training Education Program, teamed up with athletic training students and local EMS personnel to provide care to the injured "athlete." A debriefing session involving dozens of local athletic trainers, students, and other healthcare providers followed. "This is the first in a series of events featuring UNE's Laerdal SimMan 3G Simulator," said Rizzo.
Posted on: 01/09/2013
Anouar Majid publishes column on the debate over Egypt’s new constitution
Anouar Majid, Ph.D., UNE associate provost for global initiatives and director of the Center for Global Humanities, contributed a Jan. 9, 2013 column on the debate over Egypt’s new constitution to the online publication Tabsir: Insight on Islam and the Middle East.
He writes: "the thing that concerns me the most is what the Western media is talking about, i.e., the clash between those who want a nation governed by divine law and those who don’t want religion to be the absolute reference in legislation. In November 2012, I had the opportunity to make the case for the separation of state and religion to people who participated or are actually participating in the drafting of constitutions in Morocco and Tunisia, a person who ran in the last presidential race in Egypt, members of the Tunisian parliament, a leader of a major Egyptian political party, and many others who are playing some role in the future of North Africa and the Middle East. I also explained why, at this crucial juncture in the region, Arabs and Muslims can’t do better than learn from the American constitutional process and especially the reasons for separating state and religion." Read the entire 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: 01/09/2013
Sunday Telegram, Art New England review Art Gallery's 'Maine Women Pioneers III'
The Maine Sunday Telegram on Jan. 6, 2012 and Art New England's January-February edition reviewed the UNE Art Gallery's Maine Women Pioneers III exhibitions.
Showcasing 50 living artists chosen for their trailblazing leadership, Maine Women Pioneers III builds upon two previous exhibitions mounted under the same “pioneers” banner during the 1980s. The current Maine Women Pioneers III project comprises four separate shows running consecutively until July 21, 2013.
The Sunday Telegram's Daniel Kany, reviewing "Homage," the second of the series of exhibitions, writes: "'Maine Women Pioneers III: Homage' is a fascinating show for myriad reasons.... The unassailable conclusion of 'Homage' is the triumph of active Maine women artists. It's not intended to be fully comprehensive; rather, it successfully posits a polemic about the critical density of the community of accomplished women in Maine art. It is a highly enjoyable and successful show."
Art New England's Christopher Volpe, reviewing the entire Maine Women Pioneers III project, writes: "The show’s curators wisely avoided a survey approach and so thought carefully about what constitutes pioneering innovation in contemporary art. A major testament unrivaled by its precedents, Maine Women Pioneers III is a monumental achievement and an important event in the history of art exhibitions in Maine."
Posted on: 01/07/2013
Tradeline reports on the rise of UNE’s research and scholarship programs
The rapid success of UNE’s research and scholarship programs was the focus of a January 2, 2013 report published on Tradeline Inc.’s online portal, TradelineInc.com, which provides information resources to corporate, institutional and government professionals for planning, design, construction and management of facility assets.
The report, based on a presentation made by Associate Provost for Research and Scholarship and Director of the Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences Ed Bilsky, Ph.D., at the Tradeline 2012 College and University Science Facilities conference, details the steps that the University has taken over the years to become a well-established research institution. From growing the biomedical research program to following recommendations made by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to expanding its infrastructure, UNE has worked toward a clear vision of being a student-centered institution with research and scholarship playing an integral role.
As the report notes, in just the past ten years alone, “UNE’s research and scholarship program has gone from just a handful of funded investigators to a vibrant educational and research group that is effectively competing for major federal and state grants.”
Posted on: 01/04/2013
Josh Pahigian's 'Strangers on the Beach' among the Maine Edge's best of the year
Strangers on the Beach, a mystery novel by Josh Pahigian, M.F.A., adjunct professor in the UNE Department of English, was listed as one of the best reads of 2012 by the Maine Edge.
"Pahigian has constructed a complex thriller, filled with engaging and eccentric characters. The story – set in Old Orchard Beach - is populated by fully-realized characters, people whose motivations never feel anything but honest.... A great read."
The book was also reviewed in Kennebec Journal on Jan. 3, 2013 and The Bangor Daily News on Jan. 7th.
Posted on: 01/03/2013
Marilyn Gugliucci appears on MPBN's Maine Watch to discuss 'Aging in Place'
Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., director of geriatric education & research, UNE College of Osteopathic Medicine, appears this evening, Jan. 3, 2013, on Maine Public Broadcasting's "Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks" television program. The episode is called "Aging in Place," and addresses how technology is enabling people to live in their homes as long as possible, and some of the challenges that presents - such as how to balance safety with independence, and cost with care.
The program will also air on Friday, Jan. 4 at 9:00 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 6 at 5:00 p.m.
Posted on: 01/03/2013
Segment of Swedish documentary featuring David Smith available on YouTube
A segment of the Swedish documentary Människans första krig (Mankind's First Wars) featuring David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., UNE associate professor of philosophy, is available on YouTube.
In 2011 a Swedish production company flew Smith, Ph.D., to Israel to be one of the experts in the TV documentary, which deals with the prehistoric origins of war. They filmed in Jerusalem and the West Bank for several days, including the ruins of the ancient fortified city of Jericho.
Other participants include the famous archaeologists Stephen Mithen and Ian Hodder, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, the Indian historian Romila Thapar and Chinese archaeologist An Jiayuan. The film premiered at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm and was shown on Sweden's SVT TV Nov. 5, 2012. View the YouTube segment. Smith is also featured in the film's trailer, which can be viewed on the station's website.
Posted on: 12/20/2012
Tom McLaughlin's research is noted in Bangor Daily News editorial on scapegoating the poor
Research by Thomas Chalmers McLaughlin, Ph.D., UNE professor of social work, was noted in a Dec. 19, 2012 Bangor Daily News editorial titled "Shame on Maine leaders for scapegoating the poor."
The editorial cites a number of studies to argue that there is no evidence that welfare recipients move to Maine from other states for better benefits or that recipients are on welfare because they are "lazy."
The editorial states: "In a report of preliminary findings from an analysis of long-term General Assistance recipients, University of New England researcher Tom McLaughlin, who also worked on the 2010 TANF survey, reported in September to the General Assistance working group that 80 percent of those surveyed had worked within the past five years. Both studies identified health problems, either suffered by recipients or their children, as major barriers to independence. The General Assistance study indicated that 90 percent of respondents suffered from adverse childhood experiences such as homelessness, hunger, abuse or lack of medical care." Read the editorial.
Posted on: 12/20/2012
David Smith's Less than Human named one of 10 Best Books for 2012 by Montreal Review
The Montreal Review has selected Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others by David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., UNE associate professor of philosophy, as one of it's 10 Best Books of 2012 in Social & Science.
Smith was recently named winner of the Cleveland Foundation's 77th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction for Less Than Human.
Smith is also the author of 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: 12/19/2012
Thomas McLaughlin's column on the needs of the mentally ill published by Press Herald
The Dec. 19, 2012 Portland Press Herald published a column by Thomas Chalmers McLaughlin, Ph.D., UNE associate professor and co-director for the Social Work Center for Research and Evaluation, who wrote about cuts in support access for the mentally ill and the issues of their unmet needs in Maine and the nation.
"In the wake of the horror of what occurred in Newtown, Conn., we, as a nation, have been forced to revisit the concept of mental illness and violence. ... While the national debate may focus on gun control and gun violence - all important issues - the larger issue is how we, as a nation, treat the concept of mental illness." Read the column
Posted on: 12/19/2012
Regional media cover James Sulikowski's research on skate bycatch mortality in the scallop industry
A number of media outlets - including the Boston Globe, Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel, Cape Cod Times, Gainesville Sun, WMTW, and WCSH - ran an Associated Press story on research by UNE marine biologist James Sulikowski, Ph.D., who is the co-investigator for a $1,092,642 NOAA grant to evaluate the mortality rates of skates inadvertently caught by scallop boats fishing on the Georges Bank fishing grounds east of Cape Cod.
Previous research from 2009-2011 on skate bycatch in the otter trawl fishery by Sulikowski and a colleague contributed to a November 2011 emergency action by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to revise an existing policy and increase the amount of skate that fishermen could land that year. Read more.
Posted on: 12/17/2012
James Sulikowski's latest skate research highlighted by national online media
A number of online media outlets, including the Boston Globe, Cincinnati Enquirer and Yahoo News, picked up a story on UNE marine biologist James Sulikowski's latest research as co-investigator for a $1,092,642 NOAA grant, "Evaluating the Condition and Discard Mortality of Skates Following Capture and Handling in the Sea Scallop Dredge Fishery."
The two-year collaborative study aims to determine the scallop industry bycatch mortality rates of four skate species and to identify those factors most influential on skate survival by species. It is being conducted out on Georges Bank in collaboration with the scallop fishery and will run through July 2014.
Funded by NOAA's Sea Scallop Research Set Aside Program for $1,092,642, Sulikowski, an associate professor in UNE Department of Marine Sciences, is collaborating with David Rudders of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and John Mandelman from the New England Aquarium, on this project.
Posted on: 12/11/2012
Eric Zuelow interviewed by BBC Magazine on the secessionist petitions in the U.S.
Eric Zuelow, Ph.D., UNE assistant professor of European history, was interviewed for a Dec. 9, 2012 BBC News Magazine story on "Secession petitions: Why Americans don't really want to break up."
The story looks at why secessionists who started petitions in their states to withdraw from the United States after the November elections don't stand a chance.
Zuelow told the magazine that it is significant that America is a place where waves of incomers have aspired to settle and assimilate. "That immigrant experience is built into the national mythology. It's about the mythology of the melting pot," he says.
He added that minority and ethnic groups tend to have spread out and intermixed sufficiently to prevent any linguistic or cultural equivalents of Quebec emerging. "Certainly the US has different regional cultures but they are not framed as national cultures - they are all under the heading 'America'," Zuelow said. Read the story.
Zuelow is co-editor of Nationalism in a Global Era: The Persistence of Nations, editor of Touring Beyond the Nation: A Transnational Approach to European Tourism History, and is author of Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity since the Irish Civil War.
Posted on: 12/11/2012
Loggerhead turtles recovering at UNE-MARC make a splash in the news
On December 6, 2012, multiple television channels, including WGME News 13, WCSH Newscenter 6, WLBZ TV, and WMTW News 8 aired coverage of the story of six loggerhead turtles, rescued in a hypothermic state from Cape Cod Bay, who received care at UNE’s Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center (MARC). The Journal Tribune also reported on the story in the December 7th issue.
The turtles were sent to UNE-MARC from the New England Aquarium, which had no room for them due to a record-breaking number of turtles in need of care during this year’s stranding season. Every year in November and December, hypothermic turtles are rescued from the waters of Cape Cod Bay, as the animals are not able to navigate around the hooked tip of Cape Cod to move southward to warmer water.
The six loggerheads who were cared for at MARC were flown via Coast Guard plane to a turtle facility in Florida for further recuperation in order to make room at MARC for more Cape Cod turtles in need of urgent care.
Posted on: 12/11/2012
George Young interviewed on Radio Ireland about his new book
On Dec. 5,2012 George M. Young, Ph.D., research fellow of the Center for Global Humanities, was interviewed about his new book, The Russian Cosmists, by Sean Moncrieff on the award winning Radio Ireland program Newstalk.
The Russian Cosmists examines the emergence in the nineteenth and early twentieth century of a controversial school of Russian thinkers, led by the philosopher Nikolai Fedorov and united in the conviction that humanity was entering a new stage of evolution in which it must assume a new, active, managerial role in the cosmos.
Posted on: 12/06/2012
Bangor Daily News features story on College of Pharmacy’s elective course on formulating medications for animal patients
The Bangor Daily News on Dec. 4, 2012 featured a story titled "University of New England pharmacy students blend custom meds for animal patients."
UNE College of Pharmacy doctoral students in the third year of the four-year program have the opportunity to take an elective class in veterinary pharmacy that includes training in the safe production of compounded veterinary drug prescriptions. A lab this year for the Class of 2014 was co-organized by Steve Hauke, RPh, veterinary pharmacist and owner of PetScripts in Yarmouth. Hauke provided valuable focus and guidance during two separate laboratory exercises in November where students learned how to safely and effectively fill orders for custom compounded veterinary prescriptions.“Many drugs do not come formulated for a certain species or a specific animal use, so veterinarians commonly order compounded drug prescriptions for their patients,” according to UNE assistant professor Cory Theberge.
Katelyn Richard, a student pharmacist at UNE, said she valued the elective class as the market becomes more competitive. “Pets are now considered another member of the family,” she said. “Taking this class has given me an advantage over other pharmacy students to provide another level of care to customers’ furry friends.” Read the story
Posted on: 12/04/2012
UNE's Saco River Ferry among National Wildlife Federation's Best Green Campus Projects
The National Wildlife Federation on Nov. 28, 2012 announced that UNE's Saco River Ferry project was one of the NWF Campus Ecology program's 112 Best Green Campus Projects of 2012.
A photograph of the ferry, which ran for three weeks in spring 2012 and seven weeks in fall 2012 from Camp Ellis in Saco to UNE's Biddeford Campus, was displayed on the homepage/introduction of the announcement.
In its seven weeks of operation fall 2012, the ferry averaged 73 one-way riders per week and eliminated a total of 483 vehicle trips from local roadways and 4,347 miles worth of carbon emissions.
The UNE river ferry is the first active ferry service on the Saco River since 1925.
The university-wide project was spearheaded by UNE Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Noah Perlut, his Introduction to Environmental Issues class, and Sustainability Coordinator Alethea Cariddi.
Funding for the project was provided by the UNE President’s Office and Undergraduate Student Government, evidence of the collaborative leadership and sense of value and importance shared by administration and students. Read the NWF introduction and the UNE case.
Posted on: 12/03/2012
Barry Costa-Pierce featured in Press Herald photo with 18-volume sustainability encyclopedia
Barry Costa-Pierce, Ph.D., UNE Doherty Professor and director of the UNE Marine Science Center, was featured in a photo in the Portland Press Herald on Dec. 1, 2012. The photo shows Costa-Pierce sitting behind two stacks of the 18-volume Springer Science’s Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, which Costa-Pierce worked on for the past three years.
The encyclopedia is a monumental work of 12,555 pages produced by approximately 1,000 scientists and peer reviewers, available in bound volumes and on a searchable web interface. Costa-Pierce wrote four chapters in the volume he edited on Ocean Farming and Sustainable Aquaculture Science and Technology. See the Press Herald photo and read more about encyclopedia.
Posted on: 12/03/2012
Anouar Majid's lecture on American-Muslim relations featured on MPBN radio
Maine Public Radio's "Speaking in Maine" program on Nov. 26, 2012 featured a lecture by Anouar Majid, Ph.D., associate provost for global initiatives and director of the UNE Center for Global Humanities, who spoke on "The Past and Future of American-Muslim Relations." The lecture was recorded at the Nov. 12 Center for Global Humanities' 2012-2013 Crosley Lecture.
Majid discussed what unites and divides the United States and the Muslim world, and the relationship between the two in the future. He is the author of a number of books, most recently Islam and America: Building a Future Without Prejudice. Listen to the MPBN podcast.
Posted on: 11/27/2012
Americantowns.com reports record-breaking food donations raised by Sodexo, UNE, and local high schools
News of the record amount of food donated to local pantries by Sodexo, UNE, and two local high schools has been reported by americantowns.com.
The joint effort in the “Helping Hands Across America” program by Sodexo staff; UNE students and faculty; and students and teachers from Old Orchard Beach High School and Kennebunk High School resulted in a donation of over 46,000 pounds of food to five area pantries. UNE’s hockey team joined the effort by conducting a bottle drive, which brought in 1,068 pounds of food.
Posted on: 11/27/2012
Press Herald features new men's basketball Coach Ed Silva
The Portland Press Herald on Nov. 21, 2012 featured a story on UNE's new men's basketball coach, Ed Silva, who comes to UNE from Elms College in Chicopee, Mass.
The story notes that "from his childhood in Lowell, Mass., to college stops in Manchester, N.H., and Willimantic, Conn., to his past 11 years as men's basketball coach at Elms College in Chicopee, Mass., New England's textile history has never been far away."
"I'm drawn to mill cities," Silva says. At Elms College, Silva won seven conference titles and went to the NCAA Division III tournament six times.
"I like to have themes for each season and the theme this year is 'Being comfortable being uncomfortable,' " Silva said. "For the players it means going just a little over that line each day, so you push out of your comfort zone." Read the story.
Posted on: 11/21/2012
Press Herald features women's basketball team's opening victory in the new Alfond Forum
"That is a positive way to open a building," said UNE Coach Anthony Ewing. "We really managed to bring a last-possession-type urgency to every possession, and that was good."
"This was a huge game, with the new building, and a big matchup against Bowdoin," said Meghan Gribbin '16, an elementary education major, who was the Maine Gatorade Player of the Year last season at Windham High. "We promised each other before the game that everyone was going to give it their all. And I think we showed that. The energy was just crazy."
The story also quoted Beth Suggs '13, an applied exercise science major, and ran photos of Liz LeBlanc '13, a psychology major, and Alanna Vose '16, an applied exercise science major. Read the story.
Posted on: 11/21/2012
Press Herald publishes President Danielle Ripich's column on universities' critical role in health care reform
The Portland Press Herald on Nov. 20, 2012 published a Maine Voices column by UNE President Danielle N. Ripich, Ph.D., titled "Universities have much to contribute to transformation of health care."
Citing examples from UNE, President Ripich explains that universities must respond to the demands of health care reform, which include the need for an expanded health care workforce, the evolving role of the health care work force, the importance of interprofessional education, and the necessity that primary health care providers have core competencies of public health. She also explains the importance of universities' role, as large employers, to commit to further improving health practices in the workplace.
"Whether we are producing health professionals to address work force shortages, leading the transformation of health care practices, or addressing the health of its students and employees, universities play a vital role in the changing complexion of health care in Maine and nationally." Read the column.
Posted on: 11/20/2012
Portland Phoenix gives Art Gallery's 'Maine Women Pioneers II: Vanguard' a rave review
The Portland Phoenix on Nov. 14, 2012 gave a rave review to the UNE Art Gallery's "Maine Women Pioneers II: Vanguard," which features avant-garde, experimental and innovative works by nine Maine artists who offer insights into the future using mixed media, conceptual installation, performance and video elements.
Vanguard is the first of a series of four exhibitions that is striving to define the national impact of leading Maine women art pioneers of our age.
Reviewer Nicholas Schroeder writes: "In the first exhibit of 'Maine Women Pioneers III,' UNE's third occasion devoting nine months of events to women in the arts, this 'Vanguard' of artists are worthy of any superlative one could throw at them, and, gender be damned, together comprise one of the most remarkable exhibits of the year." Read the review.
"Vanguard," the first of the four in the series, runs through Dec. 16th.
Posted on: 11/19/2012
Thomas McLaughlin's column on income inequality published by Press Herald
The Nov.19, 2012 Portland Press Herald published a column by Thomas Chalmers McLaughlin, Ph.D., UNE associate professor and co-director for the Social Work Center for Research and Evaluation, who wrote on the issue of the long-term aspects of income inequality in Maine and the nation.
McLaughlin concludes his column: "It is time that we, as a state, engage in open and frank discussions surrounding the long-term impact of what has happened and what the larger implications to our state and our nation are as we continue this trend.
"The debate should be free and open and include all aspects of the issue, from individual income and the concepts of 'how much is enough' to how we fund social service and social welfare programs for those 'who don't have enough.' In the end, we will not agree that we have become unequal, but we will begin the process of discussing our inequality and its longer-term impacts on all of our citizens." Read the column.
Posted on: 11/19/2012
Marilyn Gugliucci interviewed for Press Herald story on closing of assisted-living center
Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., director of geriatric education & research, UNE College of Osteopathic Medicine, was interviewed by the Portland Press Herald for a story on the closing of an assisted-living center in Scarborough that has separated one couple after 52 years of marriage.
Gugliucci, a board member of the Maine Council on Aging, said moving to a new home is stressful for anyone, but can be especially stressful for people who rely on help from staff members at assisted-living homes.
While little research has been done on the closure of facilities or the movement of older adults, a move - coupled with separation from spouses or trusted caregivers - is undoubtedly difficult for everyone involved, Gugliucci said.
"Each of these people go through that experience differently, will grieve differently and will adjust and adapt differently," she said. "That group would do better if they were moved together." Read the story.
Posted on: 11/19/2012
Sunday Telegram story features Art Gallery's 'Maine Women Pioneers II: Vanguard'
The Maine Sunday Telegram on Nov. 18, 2012 featured a story on the UNE Art Gallery's "Maine Women Pioneers II: Vanguard," which features avant-garde, experimental and innovative works by nine Maine artists who offer insights into the future using mixed media, conceptual installation, performance and video elements.
Vanguard is the first of a series of four exhibitions that is striving to define the national impact of leading Maine women art pioneers of our age.
Telegram writer Bob Keyes describes the show as "fresh, witty and probing. It is less about visual stimulation and more about connecting people with ideas and concepts."
Art Gallery Director Anne Zill tells the Telegram that "When this cycle of four shows is complete next summer, 50 women will have been featured ... These artists should stand the test of time. Fifty years from now, when we look back, we'll be celebrating 50 women artists who are working now, whose work has stood the test of time." Read the story.
"Vanguard," the first of the four in the series, runs through Dec. 16th.
Posted on: 11/19/2012
Bangor Daily News covers UNE's on-ice simulation exercise on spine injury management
The Bangor Daily News on Nov. 16, 2012 covered a UNE Department of Exercise and Sport Performance interactive on-ice simulation exercise, “Managing Traumatic Injury in Ice Hockey,” at UNE’s Harold Alfond Forum with a story and a video.
This event is the first in a series of exercises utilizing UNE’s Laerdal SimMan 3G simulator, a state-of-the-art human simulator. The SimMan 3G is a fully wireless lifelike mannequin that accurately mirrors human responses such as breathing, bleeding, blinking, speaking, and responds to procedures like CPR, intravenous medication, intubation, ventilation and catheterization.
The interdisciplinary exercise in spine injury management brought together local physicians, Biddeford firefighters and EMS, certified athletic trainers and UNE athletic training students to simulate an on-ice cervical spine injury and subsequent emergency services.
Read the story and watch the video.
Posted on: 11/19/2012
Diane Atwood blog features Parkinson's disease exercise program developed with Jim Cavanaugh
A program and research project on Parkinson's disease developed by Jim Cavanaugh PT, Ph.D, NCS, assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, and colleagues were featured on the blog "Catching Health with Diane Atwood" on Nov. 13, 2012.
Cavanaugh has been working with the owners of the Medically Oriented Gym (the M.O.G.) in South Portland to design an exercise program for people at all levels of Parkinson's disease, offering a wide variety of activities that focus on balance, flexibility, muscular strength and endurance.
They are also conducting an 8-week research project with the goal evaluating the program, with the goal of publishing their findings. The blog post has also been featured on the WCSH6 website. Read the blog.
Posted on: 11/15/2012
Sun Journal story features women's basketball co-captain Liz LeBlanc
UNE women's basketball co-captain Liz LeBlanc '13, a psychology major, was the subject of a feature story in the Nov. 14, 2012 Sun Journal (Lewiston).
The story explains that LeBlanc and fellow senior Beth Suggs '13, an applied exercise science major, were elected captains on an extremely young team.
“We have eight freshmen,” UNE coach Anthony Ewing said. “So half of our team are first-year kids. So their ability to lead off the court and on the court is going to be huge for us. They’ll be able to settle things down when they need to be settled down and give them a pep talk when they need a little pep talk.”
Read the story about LeBlanc's career at her home town high school in Jay and at UNE, as well as expectations for her this season.
Posted on: 11/14/2012
Art Gallery's 'Maine Women Pioneers III: Vanguard' featured in Artscope
Vanguard is the first of a four-part series that will include "Homage," "Worldview" and "Dirigo."
“Vanguard,” for its part, showcases younger artists who are “on a different plane entirely,” Art Gallery Director Anne Zill noted in the Artscope story.
The exhibit encompasses the work of nine women who grapple with concepts such as the future, the human mind, memory and existence through a medley of installations big and small incorporating mixed media, interactive exhibits, videos and performances. Read the first part of the article.
Posted on: 11/12/2012
Trailer for Swedish documentary on war features David Smith
A Swedish TV documentary entitled Människans första krig (Mankind's First Wars), which featured David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., UNE associate professor of philosophy, was shown on Sweden's SVT TV Nov. 5, 2012. Smith is also featured in the film's trailer, which can be viewed on the station's website.
In 2011 a Swedish production company flew Smith to Israel to shoot the scenes in which he is featured. Other participants in the documentary include the famous archaeologists Stephen Mithen and Ian Hodder, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, the Indian historian Romila Thapar and Chinese archaeologist An Jiayuan.
They filmed in Jerusalem and the West Bank for several days, including the ruins of the ancient fortified city of Jericho. The film had premiered earlier at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm and was very well received.
Smith is the author of Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others, The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War and Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception.
Posted on: 11/12/2012
Josh Pahigian discusses his new mystery novel with Worcester Telegram and WGAN
UNE Adjunct Faculty Member Josh Pahigian discussed his new mystery novel, Strangers on the Beach, in a Nov. 8, 2012 Worcester Telegram interview and on the John McDonald Show on WGAN radio, Nov. 11th.
Pahigian discusses his writing career and his new novel in the context of growing up in Charlton, Mass. in the Telegram story, and he explains the research behind the novel on WGAN. Read the Telegram story and listen to the WGAN interview.
Pahigian is the author of several books, including The Seventh Inning Stretch, 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out and The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip. Strangers on the Beach is his first published novel.
Posted on: 11/12/2012
David Smith is interviewed by New York Times on Twitter lies
David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy, was quoted at length in a Nov. 5, 2012 New York Times Bits column by Nick Bilton on the topic of lies posted on Twitter during and in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
Smith, the author of Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind, explained that “in the past, confirmation as well as disconfirmation took a long time to verify.' Now, just as information spreads quickly, inaccuracies are corrected with the same swiftness. There is also more accountability today, as a digital record can now be tied to the creator of falsehoods as they unfurl. Read the column.
Smith was recently named winner of the Cleveland Foundation's 77th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction for his book Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others. Smith has discussed Less than Human on NPR's Talk of the Nation and other media outlets. More
Posted on: 11/05/2012
Brian Duff interviewed by media on Maine's gay marriage referendum
Brian Duff, Ph.D., UNE associate professor of political science, was interviewed for a Nov. 1, 2012 Vermont Public Radio story and a Nov. 4 Seacoast.online story on Maine's gay marriage referendum.
The outcome is "incredibly hard to predict," Duff told Seacoast.online. "In terms of effectiveness, Yes on 1 has run a better campaign, but it's hard to say how effective church leaders are going to be in raising the opposition."
Duff told Vermont Public Radio that one of the more interesting aspects of the gay marriage debate has been the issue of children. "The question of what's good for the kids, what does it mean to love children, how do we protect kids, has seemed to be seized upon effectively by the pro-gay marriage side."
Duff is the author of The Parent as Citizen: A Democratic Dilemma. He has also published research on feminist theory, voting, and the politics of race and ethnicity.
Posted on: 11/05/2012
Media cover David Smith's keynote address at Mizzou Diversity Summit
David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., UNE associate professor of philosophy, delivered the keynote address at the University of Missouri's Mizzou Diversity Summit on Oct. 29, 2012. The address was covered by the Missourian and the student newspaper The Maneater.
In his presentation, Smith spoke about the concept of dehumanization from his book Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others.
Smith was recently named winner of the Cleveland Foundation's 77th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction for Less Than Human.
Smith is also the author of 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: 10/30/2012
Sustainablog features the UNE Saco River ferry
The influential Sustainablog on Oct. 26, 2012 featured a column on UNE's Saco River Ferry that runs from Camp Ellis in Saco to UNE's Biddeford Campus.
The story notes that after a three-week trial in April, UNE officially launched its ferry service in mid-September. Since then, the ferry has averaged 73, one-way riders per week and eliminated a total of 300 vehicle trips from local roadways and 2,920 miles worth of carbon emissions.
The blogger writes: "This strikes me as a great example of looking at the realities in place, and creating a more sustainable solution based upon them. Know of other schools going beyond the norm in terms of addressing parking congestion (and the environmental impact that goes with it)."
The story quotes Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Noah Perlut. Read the column.
Posted on: 10/30/2012
Media cover appointment of Douglas Wood as new dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine
The Associated Press ran a story on the University of New England's appointment of Douglas Wood, D.O., Ph.D., as the new dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine.
The story was picked up by a number of media outlets, including the Portland Press Herald, the Boston Globe and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Most recently Dean Wood served as senior vice president of academic affairs at A.T. Still University, where he also co-chaired the institution’s strategic planning initiatives. He was founding dean of ATSU’s School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona from 2005-2010.
Dean Wood served as president of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine from 1995 to 2005. More on Dean Wood.
Posted on: 10/29/2012
Brian Duff participates on MPBN's political ad analysis team
Brian Duff, Ph.D., UNE associate professor of political science, was asked by the Maine Public Broadcasting Network (MPBN) to be one of a team of two experts scrutinizing campaign ads for the network.
Duff, along with Ron Schmidt, professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Maine, are interviewed in a series of videos analyzing the flood of TV campaign ads appearing in the Maine media. Watch the videos.
Duff was also interviewed by MPBN radio for a story on changes in strategies by proponents and opponents of the referendum on gay marriage. Listen to the story.
In addition, Duff was interviewed by Seacoast.online for a story on the race for the U.S. Senate in Maine between independent Angus King, Democrat Cynthia Dill and Republican Charlie Summers. The story looks at why King has maintained his lead in the race. Read the story.
Duff is the author of The Parent as Citizen: A Democratic Dilemma. He has also published research on feminist theory, voting, and the politics of race and ethnicity.
Posted on: 10/29/2012
Ali Ahmida interviewed by Jadaliyya about Libya, past and future
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the UNE political science program, was interviewed by Jadaliyya, one of the most read on-line sites on the Arab Spring. In the interview, Ahmida discusses his new article in The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, titled "Libya, Social Origins of Dictatorship, and the Challenge for Democracy."
He explains that the "article was inspired by the democratic revolutionary uprising in the Arab World, especially Libya, the least known country. Also, I wanted to go beyond the orientalist and the colonial filtering and categories by bringing in the historical, comparative, and post-colonial context. For example, Libya’s colonial genocide under Italian Fascism is often ignored and is viewed through the category of tribalism, despite the fact the majority of the Libyan people live in urban areas, and it has the highest literacy rate in Africa. The New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and even the critical London Review of Books have published material on Libya conditioned by these conventional views. The category of tribalism is an easy and simplistic one, but ahistorical and misleading."
Read the interview and read the article in The Journal of the Middle East and Africa.
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: 10/26/2012
Sun Chronicle features the UNE Saco River ferry
The Sun Chronicle on Oct. 24, 2012 featured a story on UNE's Saco River Ferry that runs from Camp Ellis in Saco to UNE's Biddeford Campus.
The story notes that after a three-week trial in April, UNE officially launched its ferry service in mid-September. Since then, the ferry has averaged 73, one-way riders per week and eliminated a total of 300 vehicle trips from local roadways and 2,920 miles worth of carbon emissions.
Karl Carrigan, UNE AV technology production specialist, explained in the story that “when I travel across the river, I see herons, sea birds and other wildlife. The views are awesome and varied. I have texted many photos of my morning commute to my less-fortunate, landlocked peers in other parts of the country ... I’ve even learned new things about the area and the river from (the ferry captain) and the crew at the dock.”
The story also quotes UNE Sustainability Coordinator Alethea Cariddi, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Noah Perlut, and students Rose Jacobson '13, medical biology, and Caitlin Spaeth '13, environmental studies. Read the story
Posted on: 10/26/2012
Release of two seals treated at UNE MARC makes headlines
The October 23rd release of two seal pups who were treated at UNE’s Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center (MARC) received news coverage from various media outlets, including WLNE-6 News, WPRI, The Day, and the Narragansett-South Kingstown Patch.
Hershey (female) and Brunswick (male), two five-month old harbor seal pups were rescued in Maine on May 28, 2012, and July 2, 2012, respectively. After undergoing rehabilitation at MARC, the seals were transferred to Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut, and from there were released into the waters of Charlestown Breachway State Beach.
In attendance at the release were the winner of Seals on the Rocks fundraiser contest and students of Mystic Aquarium’s Sea School, the country’s only licensed aquarium-based preschool.
Posted on: 10/24/2012
Kenneth McCall interviewed by 'Bangor Daily News' for story on flu shots
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice Kenneth “Mac” McCall, BSPharm, Pharm.D., who serves as the president of the Maine Pharmacy Association, was quoted in the October 22, 2012 issue of the Bangor Daily News in a story regarding pharmacist-administered flu shots in Maine.
According to the article, titled “Pharmacies pick up slack in doling out flu shots,” the number of people nationally who received flu shots in the 2012-11 season increased by 14 million from 2006-07, thanks in part to a change in Maine law in 2009 that granted permission to pharmacists to administer the vaccine to adults and children over age nine.
“Most of the increase we’ve seen in the total number of flu shots given has been driven by pharmacies,” McCall notes.
Although Maine was one of the last states to pass such a law, it recently became a leader in the country during the last legislative session by passing LD 1715, which will enable pharmacists to expand the list of vaccines they can give to patients to include all vaccines recommenced for adults by the U.S. CDC.
Posted on: 10/23/2012
Ali Ahmida interviewed by the Voice of Russia on Libya's future
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the UNE political science program, was interviewed about Libya's future by the Voice of Russia: American Edition on Oct. 19, 2012.
On the eve of the first anniversary of the death of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Voice of Russia correspondent Stephen Schaber interviewed Ahmida on what needs to happen for Libya to regain stability.
Ahmida said that the post-Gadhafi "euphoria" has faded, and the people of Libya are now the most concerned about the slow pace of disarming militias and rebuilding the country. Listen to the entire 17-minute interview.
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: 10/23/2012
David Smith's presentaion at Innovative Tijuana picked up by news sites
Several Spanish online news sites picked up a summary of a talk that Associate Professor David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., of the Department of History & Philosophy, gave at the second annual Innovative Tijuana event, which was held October 11-21, 2012, in the Tijuana Cultural Center in Tijuana, Mexico.
The sites included TijuanaHoy, Frontera.info, El Mexicano.com and the official Tijuana Innovadora site.
Smith spoke on October 19th. His talk was 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 were 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: 10/22/2012
Josh Pahigian’s first novel receives glowing review
Josh Pahigian, M.F.A., adjunct professor in the Department of English, received a rave review of his newly released novel, Strangers on the Beach, in the October 17, 2012, issue of The Maine Edge, a weekly online cultural arts publication.
Set in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, Strangers on the Beach is a mystery thriller that tells the story of how a small seaside community becomes swept up in the intrigue of character Ferdinand Sevigny, an adventurous millionaire, and all that ensues when he makes a failed attempt to sail blindfolded across the Atlantic.
The review notes, “Pahigian has constructed a complex thriller, filled with engaging and eccentric characters. The story unfolds gradually, but it never feels slow-moving. His Old Orchard Beach is populated by fully-realized characters, people whose motivations never feel anything but honest. As we watch these people being enveloped by circumstances whose ramifications they don’t fully understand, Pahigian pulls us along with them, slowly building to a climax that is unexpected in the moment, yet seems almost inevitable after the fact.”
The review goes on to applaud Pahigian for his masterful development of the novel’s setting: “The author’s love of Old Orchard Beach is palpable—so much so that the town itself is very much a character in the this story, and a major one at that. A strong sense of place permeates the entire novel, creating a world in which the reader can fully invest. His rendering of the town is the solid foundation upon which the rest of his tale is built.”
Pahigian is the author of several books, including The Seventh Inning Stretch, 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out and The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip. Strangers on the Beach is his first published novel.
Posted on: 10/19/2012
Brian Duff interviewed by MPBN radio for an profile of Democratic Congresswoman Chellie Pingree
Brian Duff, Ph.D., UNE associate professor of political science, was interviewed for a Oct. 16, 2012 MPBN radio election story profiling Democratic Congresswoman Chellie Pingree.
Duff says unless Pingree commits a serious error in the next few weeks, she should be heading back to Washington next year.
"It would take a scandal; it would take saying something really unexpected at the debates," Duff says. And that, he says, would be a huge surprise. "Chellie Pingree seems to be a disciplined candidate, she's done well in her previous campaigns, and she doesn't seem prone to major slipups." Listen to the entire story.
Duff is the author of The Parent as Citizen: A Democratic Dilemma. He has also published research on feminist theory, voting, and the politics of race and ethnicity.
Posted on: 10/17/2012
Ali Ahmida interviewed by BBC radio on Libya's new prime minister
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the UNE political science program, was interviewed about Libya's National Congress election of former diplomat and lawmaker Ali Zaidan as the country's new prime minister on BBC Radio's Up All Night program on Oct. 15, 2012.
Ahmida gave his views on the challenges facing the newly appointed prime minister, including the disarming of the country's militias and mending ties with the U.S. in the wake of the killing of U.S. diplomats. Listen to the six-minute interview at 19:08 minutes into the program.
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: 10/17/2012
Video on drinking and driving wins two Best Shorts Awards
"Point of No Return," a DVD collaboration between the University of New England's Coastal Healthy Communities Coalition, the Healthy Maine Partnership at the UNE, Video Creations, and the Kennebunk Police Department, has won two prestigious Awards of Merit from the Best Shorts Competition, in the "Short Documentary" and the "Contemporary Issues/Awareness Raising" categories.
"Point of No Return" addresses the dangers of underage drinking and driving and was created as a community collaboration between students, residents, public safety officials, business owners, and community leaders in the town of Kennebunk, Maine.
The Best Shorts Competition recognizes film professionals who demonstrate exceptional achievement in craft and creativity, and those who produce standout entertainment or contribute to profound social change. Because of its profound impact, the video has been distributed to every high school in Maine, free of charge.
"Point of No Return" won two Telly Awards in June 2012.
Posted on: 10/15/2012
Josh Pahigian discusses his new mystery novel in a Sun Chronicle interview
UNE Adjunct Faculty Member Josh Pahigian discussed his new mystery novel, Strangers on the Beach, which is set in Old Orchard Beach, in an Oct. 11, 2012 Sun Chronicle interview.
Pahigian explains that "the best twists and turns came as surprises even to me. I would have a vision for where the story was going but then, at several points, I asked myself at the last moment, 'what if this happened instead?' I think that ability to surprise readers is what will make the book exciting to read." Read the interview.
Pahigian will also discuss the novel at noon, Tuesday, Oct. 16 in the St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library, UNE Biddeford Campus.
Posted on: 10/15/2012
Denise Bisaillon discusses Master of Public Health Program in an interview by MPHProgramsList.com
Denise Bisaillon, Ed.D., director and associate professor, UNE graduate programs in public health, was interviewed by MPHProgramsList.com
Bisaillon explained that the online Master of Public Health Program at UNE, the first in Maine to be accredited by Council on Education for Public Health, is "a quality-driven program with renowned faculty. Our faculty members are seasoned, expert public health practitioners, researchers and educators. Recently, UNE’s Public Health Program received a $3.5 million grant from U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education (SNAP-Ed) to provide nutrition education in Maine. In addition, our faculty frequently publish their research, speak internationally and are leaders in the public health industry." Read the entire interview.
Posted on: 10/15/2012
James Sulikowski's research on the Atlantic dogfish fishery cited in Fishermen's Voice
Research by James Sulikowski, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Marine Sciences, was cited in the October 2012 issue of Fishermen's Voice in connection with recent announcement that dogfish (a small coastal shark) had received Marine Stewardship Certification.
That certification means the stock is rebuilt and is being sustainably fished.
The story notes that Sulikowski has conducted various research projects on the species that suggest that unlike most bony fish that spawn annually dogfish produce eggs and pups continuously, and unlike some other female sharks that breed at the same time of year and all give birth synchronously, dogfish appear to carry pups at various states of development. This means they are giving birth to 8 inch bay sharks all year that immediately begin eating."
To conduct his research, Sulikowski since 2009 has been awarded $564,000 ($337,000 from the NOAA Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program and $227,000 from the Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation) to use satellite tags and tandem trawl surveys to examine the behavior and ecology of spiny dogfish in the Northwest Atlantic. The ultimate goals of this research are to provide new information on habitat, depth and movement patterns that can be used for the effective management of this species in US waters.
Posted on: 10/15/2012
David Smith publishes 6th of his Psychology Today blog post series on the question of 'free will'
David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., UNE associate professor of philosophy, who writes a blog for Psychology Today, posted the sixth column of a series on the question of "free will" on Aug. 2, 2012.
In this sixth part of the series, titled "Freedom in a Deterministic World," Smith writes: "Many people think that it’s a no-brainer that if our choices are determined then they can’t be free. However, the philosophical thesis known as compatibilism states that freedom can exist in a fully deterministic universe. If this sounds odd or even nonsensical to you, it’s probably because you assume that freedom and determinism are opposites and have never subjected this notion to critical scrutiny." Read the blog.
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
Swedish documentary and CiTR 101.9 FM radio interview David Smith about war and its origins
In 2011 a Swedish production company flew David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., UNE associate professor of philosophy, to Israel to be one of the experts featured a TV documentary entitled Människans första krig (Mankind's First Wars), which deals with the prehistoric origins of war.
Other participants include the famous archaeologists Stephen Mithen and Ian Hodder, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, the Indian historian Romila Thapar and Chinese archaeologist An Jiayuan. The film has recently premiered at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, and was very well received. More information.
They filmed in Jerusalem and the West Bank for several days, including the ruins of the ancient fortified city of Jericho. The film has just premiered at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, and was very well received. Here's a link to some information:
Smith, was also recently interviewed by CiTR 101.9 FM, University of British Columbia, for a program titled "The Art of War: A Visual History of Propaganda and Dissent since the Bombing of Guernica."
Smith discussed his book Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others. Listen to the podcast at the Terry Project. Smith's interview begins at 38:15.
Smith is also the author of The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War and Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception.
Posted on: 10/10/2012
Newspapers cover 2012 George and Barbara Bush Distinguished Lecture by Jenna Bush Hager
The Bangor Daily News and the Journal Tribune covered UNE's 2012 George and Barbara Bush Distinguished Lecture by NBC correspondent and author Jenna Bush Hager on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012 in the Harold Alfond Forum on UNE’s Biddeford Campus.
Hager's grandparents, former President George H.W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush, her Hager’s talk, entitled, “The Power of Compassion and How it Can Change Lives.” Read the Bangor Daily News and Journal Tribune stories or view some photos from the event.
Posted on: 10/10/2012
Bangor Daily News, Chicago Tribune cite Tom McLaughlin's research on Maine girls forced into sex trade
An Oct. 7, 2012 Bangor Daily News story on Maine women and girls being force into the sex trade cites a study by UNE Professor of Social Work Thomas Chalmers McLaughlin, Ph.D. The story was picked up nationally by several media outlets, including the Chicago Tribune and the Hartford Courant, and locally by the Sun Journal (Lewiston).
The story explains that McLaughlin was asked by the Portland homeless and hunger prevention group Preble Street to develop a statistical snapshot of how many of Preble Street’s clients are being targeted by sex traffickers.
In the story, Jon Bradley, associate director of Preble Street, said that of 80 women and girls from Preble Street’s Florence House and Teen Center facilities who agreed to answer McLaughlin's questions, more than a quarter had reported being offered money, drugs or food in exchange for sex with a stranger. And given the survey sample, Bradley noted, those numbers could be low.
Posted on: 10/07/2012
Portland Press Herald reports on College of Pharmacy’ grant award to expand community pharmacy opportunities
The Portland Press Herald on Oct. 1, 2012 covered the UNE College of Pharmacy's award of a $50,000 grant to expand community pharmacy opportunities for graduates.
The grant was awarded by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation. The College of Pharmacy will graduate its inaugural class next spring.
"This grant will allow for the expansion of community pharmacy practice services within the state of Maine and across the country. This is a unique opportunity to place a focus on the efforts and abilities of community pharmacists as the profession of pharmacy continues to grow,” said Assistant Professor Meghan Sullivan, Pharm.D., UNE's Community Pharmacy Residency Program director. Read the story.
Posted on: 10/03/2012
Portland task force cites Tom McLaughlin’s research on homeless prevention in Portland
A Bangor Daily News story on a Portland task force on homelessness that will present its findings to the Portland City Council on Oct. 3, 2012 quotes and references a three-year research study that UNE Professor of Social Work Thomas Chalmers McLaughlin, Ph.D., conducted, evaluating the Portland's Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing program.
McLaughlin also wrote the draft of the report that the task force is presenting to the Portland City Council.
The story notes that "McLaughlin’s team followed nearly 100 greater Portland homeless individuals with disabilities — receipt by receipt — and compared their draw on public money before being provided stable housing and after. In 2009, he reported that, in their second year in stable housing, the homeless people tracked cost taxpayers a total of $622,386 less than in the year prior to entering the housing."
The task force, according to the story, is urging local stakeholders to summon the political will to fund the construction of 105 more specialized housing units for the homeless, according to its draft report.
"By implementing the major steps recommended in the report, which include a renewed focus on an individualized case management system for homeless people, the task force argues it could save the community more than $3 million annually in emergency shelter and health care costs, among other things." Read the story.
Posted on: 10/03/2012
Anisfield-Wolf Awards Ceremony honoring David Smith to air on CSPAN2 Saturday and Sunday
C-SPAN2 will be airing the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf book award ceremony at which David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., UNE associate professor of philosophy, was honored in Cleveland on Sept. 13 for his 2011 book Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others.
The entire award ceremony is scheduled to be aired on C-SPAN2 (BookTV) on Saturday, Oct. 6th at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 7th at 4 p.m.
View some photos of Smith at the ceremony with poet Rita Dove and emcee Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University.
Posted on: 10/02/2012
Courier interviews Donna Gasper Jarvis about Sept. 28 Multicultural Music & Dance Festival
Donna Gaspar Jarvis, director of Multicultural Affairs & Diversity Services, was interviewed by the Biddeford-Saco-Old Orchard Beach Courier for a discussion about UNE's multicultural and diversity programs and the upcoming Multicultural Music & Dance Festival that will be held at the Biddeford City Theater on Sept. 28, 2012.
The Courier notes that the festival will feature two award-winning groups, featuring traditional Mexican music, a mariachi band, Cuban and Dominican meringue, Puerto Rican bomba, Columbian dance and salsa.
Gasper Jarvis explains that it will be "a very fun-filled, entertaining and educational show. The event is only $5. That is cheaper and more fun than any movie, concert or event around. The show is appropriate for all ages and we strongly urge everyone to bring their children. Expect one fantastic show." Read the interview.
Posted on: 09/27/2012
WCSH story on GrowSmart report cites UNE as successful public investment
The University of New England was cited as an example of the success of public investment in an innovation-focused economy in a WCSH6 news story on a new report released by GrowSmart Maine.
In the story GrowSmart Board member Bonita Pothier offers examples like the Jackson Laboratory and the University of New England, in which community investment has made a world of a difference. She says, "I look at the work they're doing and at how maine people supported their efforts and provided funding for them, and we lead internationally in some efforts, and it's happening here in Maine; to me that's extraordinary." View the video
Posted on: 09/27/2012
Bangor Daily News previews UNE lecture by Jenna Bush Hager
The Bangor Daily News on Sept. 24, 2012 previewed the University of New England’s 2012 George and Barbara Bush Distinguished Lecture, which will feature Jenna Bush Hager, an NBC News correspondent and bestselling author.
The lecture is scheduled for Oct. 8th at 5:30 p.m. at the Biddeford Campus's new Harold Alfond Forum. Hager's lecture is titled “The Power of Compassion and How It Can Change Lives.”
She is the author of Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope, a New York Times bestseller based on the life of a 17-year-old single mother living with HIV and determined to shield her child from the abuse and neglect that riddled her own childhood.” Hager met the woman during an internship with the children’s humanitarian organization UNICEF. Read the BDN story.
Posted on: 09/26/2012
Marilyn Gugliucci interviewed by MPBN radio on senior sex
Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., director of geriatrics education and research at the UNE College of Osteopathic Medicine, was interviewed in a Maine Things Considered story on MPBN Radio, Sept. 25, 2012, on the topic of senior sex. Reporter Patty Wight was covering the Southern Maine Senior Expo in Freeport.
Gugliucci said in the past year she's received more requests to speak nationally about aging and sexuality. She noted that it's important to remember that sexuality encompasses more than just sex: It also involves physical and emotional intimacy, which is sometimes even more important for older adults.
She added that health care workers and society as whole need to communicate more openly about sexuality in seniors. And that openness is increasingly important because the rate of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS in adults over 50 is increasing. Listen to the story.
Posted on: 09/26/2012
Tom McLaughlin's research is noted in news stories on the effects of state changes to TANF eligibility
Research by Thomas Chalmers McLaughlin, Ph.D., UNE professor of social work, was noted in a Sept. 22, 2012 Sun Journal (Lewiston) story on the effects of state changes to eligibility for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.
The story noted that the 2011 study by McLaughlin and Professor Sandra Butler of the University of Maine for the Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Equal Justice Partners and the Maine Children's Alliance, found a large percentage of families "who were getting TANF for 60 months or longer were managing a disability within the family, either the parent themselves had a work-limiting disability or a child or another family member had a disability."
The Sun Journal story also ran in the Bangor Daily News.
Posted on: 09/24/2012
James Sulikowski quoted in New York Times, CBS, ABC on spiny dogfish research
An Associated Press story on the fishing industry controversy over spiny dogfish populations was picked up by the online edition of the New York Times on Oct. 13, 2009. The story quoted James Sulikowski, Ph.D., UNE assistant professor of marine sciences, who has been awarded a $237,000 grant from the NOAA Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program to use satellite tags to examine the behavior of spiny dogfish in the Northwest Atlantic. The research will try to determine the habitat, depth and movement patterns of the spiny dogfish to better understand the inconsistencies in data collected by federal agencies and the commercial fishing industry. Sulikowski, the story notes, "theorizes dogfish don't spend as much time near the ocean bottom as regulators believe, meaning bottom-trawling federal survey boats aren't getting representative samples." The story has also been picked up by several other news venues, including the online editions of CBS News, ABC News, MSNBC.MSN, the Seattle Times, Boston Globe, Forbes.
Posted on: 10/13/2009
James Sulikowski's research on spiny dogfish profiled on WGME
Doug Rafferty of WGME13 news focused the Oct. 7, 2009 Doug's Discovery segment on research being conducted by James Sulikowski, Ph.D., UNE assistant professor of marine sciences, on spiny dogfish. Sulikowski has been awarded a $237,000 grant from the NOAA Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program to use satellite tags to examine the behavior of spiny dogfish in the Northwest Atlantic. The research will try to determine the habitat, depth and movement patterns of the spiny dogfish to better understand the inconsistencies in data collected by federal agencies and the commercial fishing industry. Watch the video.
Posted on: 10/09/2009
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