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UNE to be honored by
Newcomen Society May 5th
UNE will be honored as a successful, innovative enterprise at a special reception and luncheon hosted by the Newcomen Society on May 5th at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland. President Featherman will be the featured speaker. Her address will chronicle the entrepreneurial histories of Westbrook College, St. Francis College and the University. She'll be introduced by UNE trustee and former board chair P.D. Merrill. The event, coordinated by the University Relations Office, is expected to attract 300 or more guests.
The Newcomen Society originated in Great Britain and is named after the British inventor Thomas Newcomen, frequently called the "father of the industrial revolution" for his improved steam engine that dramatically increased mining productivity. The U.S. sister organization was founded in 1923 for the study and recognition of achievement in American business and the society it serves. Most Newcomen events honor business organizations, but occasionally a college or university is selected for this special recognition.
Every Newcomen Address begins with toasts to the President of the United States and to the Queen of England. Cheers to UNE!
UNE Awarded Civic Reflection Grant
The Project on Civic Reflection has approved an award of $3,000 to the University of New England through the department of Sociology and Citizenship program. This grant award will support a civic reflection series entitled “Community Conversations: Connecting College Students & Community Members in Citizens Service.” The series will facilitate the thoughtful reading and conversation about civic activity and thus enhance the quality of our common life. UNE students engaged in service to the community and the community members with and for whom they work will dine and dialogue together in a series of four conversations throughout the coming year. More information
Pre-health Advisors In Town this Weekend and On Campus Friday
Pre-health/pre-med advisors from around the northeast are in Portland this weekend for the Northeast Association of Advisors to the Health Professions regional conference. The conference is being held at the Holiday Inn By the Bay and includes approximately 120 pre-health/pre-med advisors as well as representatives from medical and allied health schools.
COM (Recruitment, Student and Alumni Services office) is hosting a reception for conference attendees at the Portland Museum of Art tonight, Thursday. COM faculty and administration will have an opportunity to meet and socialize with pre-health advisors at this occasion.
CHP and Graduate Admissions offering advisors the opportunity to visit the Westbrook College Campus for lunch tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. There will be a showing of the METI Human Patient Simulators and Laerdal SimMan simulators.
More than 75 advisors will visit the University Campus tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. The program will feature the gross anatomy course and lab, osteopathic medicine around the world, and the geriatric practicum. At 4 p.m. there will be a reception on the third floor of ACHS allowing faculty and students to interact with the advisors.
CHP and Graduate Admissions will sponsor Saturday evening’s Meet the Dean’s fair and reception. This venue allows the advisors to meet deans and admissions representatives from various medical schools, PA programs and other health-related programs
Call for Papers/Posters/ Presentations/Artistic Exhibitions
University of New England College of Arts and Science’s
Seventh Annual Undergraduate Arts and Sciences Symposium
Location: Cafeteria Function Rooms and Main Dining Room, Decary Hall, University Campus, Biddeford, Maine
Time: Wednesday, May 3, 2006 (8:00 AM to 6:00 PM)
Prize Money for Best Student Presentations in the following categories!
1. $100.00 - for the best oral presentation of original research.
2. $50.00 - for 1st runner-up for best oral presentation of original research.
3. $100.00 - for the best oral presentation of a literature review of a topic (e.g. a standard term paper would fall under this category).
4. $50.00 - for 1st runner-up for best oral presentation of a literature review of a topic
5. $100.00 - for the best artistic exhibit.
6. $50.00 - for 1st runner-up for best artistic exhibit.
7. $75.00 - for the best poster presentation
Faculty: Please share this information with students in your departments and classes. Strongly encourage their participation as presenters and attendees. Also, we are in desperate need of moderators for the oral presentations and judges for all of the above awards. Please let David Sandmire (Ext 2849) know which of these activities you would like to conduct. Evaluation forms will be distributed for the judges.
Students: If you wish to do an oral presentation, poster presentation, or artistic exhibit, please obtain a presentation form from David Sandmire at Ext. 2849 and submit a hard copy of the presentation form to him no later than Friday, April 14.
Art Gallery presents 'Studio Connections: Artists Supporting MPBN' April 2-30th
"Studio Connections: Artists Supporting MPBN" will be on view April 2-30, 2006 at the University of New England’s Art Gallery on the Westbrook College Campus.
An opening reception was held on Sunday, April 2nd.
The exhibition features select works of fine art and crafts chosen by a jury of art professionals from the hundreds donated to The MPBN Great TV Auction. More Information
Experience UNE Days
The Admissions Office would like to announce the dates for our Spring 2006 Experience UNE Days. These student programs will provide opportunities for prospective students and their families to meet UNE administrators, current students, faculty and staff in an interactive environment.
Dates: Saturday, March 25, 2006 and Sunday, April 9, 2006
Preliminary Schedule
7:30 a.m.- 8:30 a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m.- 9:15 a.m. Welcome
9:30 a.m.- 10:50 a.m. Session I
11:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. Lunch and Department Fair
1:10 p.m.- 2:20 p.m. Session II
2:25 p.m.- 3:35 p.m. Session III
Please direct any questions about the day or any questions from incoming students to either Pete Heeley or Janicanne Shane in the Admissions office.
Unite for Sight
Fundraiser Dinner with Childcare
Saturday, April 8 at 6:30 p.m.
Decary Dining Hall, University Campus
Children may be dropped off at the UNE Campus Center with responsible medical students to play games and enjoy pizza.
Parents and friends please join us for a delicious dinner served by medical students! We are trying to raise money for eye clinics in India. These clinics will implement eye health education programs, screen for eye disease, and coordinate sight-restoring surgery for children and adults.
The cost of dinner with childcare is $50/ couple. The menu will include spinach salad, chicken with a white wine sauce, sauteed green beans, grilled risotto cakes and raspberry mousse in chocolate cups.
Please RSVP to Matthew Pomykala by March 30 at mpomykala@pipeline.une.edu or 860-748-8345. Please make checks out to UNECOM AMSA.
To learn more about Unite for Sight visit http://www.UniteforSight.org.
UNE symposium to discuss Bush administration's environmental and human health policies, April 10th
"The Bush Administration: Changing Values and Goals for Environmental and Human Health” is the topic of a symposium hosted by the Department of Environmental Studies on Monday, April 10, 2006 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Ludcke Auditorium on the Westbrook College Campus.
This event is free and open to the public.
The purpose of the symposium is to help foster, in a nonpartisan way, critical analysis of the Bush Administration’s environmental and human health policies. Differences of opinion about important policies are to be expected, and the Department of Environmental Studies hopes that a healthy debate will inform people and foster democratic principles and ideals. More information
UNE Celebrates Pride Week, April 10-14th
The University of New England's Office of Multicultural and GLBTQ Services, along with several other organizations, is celebrating Pride Week April 10-14, 2006 on both the University Campus and the Westbrook College Campus.
What is Pride Week? Students, faculty, staff, and community members celebrate the identity of thier friends, classmates, colleagues, and family members who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, or questioning through a week of events and activities. They also celebrate the allies that engage and support those that face oppression in our culture.
For more information, or to see a complete list of events, please visit www.une.edu/ur/news/prideweek06.asp
CHP Annual Spring Symposium: Dealing With Disaster
The College of Health Professions will hold its 5th annual spring symposium titled “Dealing with Disaster: What is your responsibility as a Health Care Provider” on Thursday April 13, 2006 on the Westbrook College Campus.
The all day symposium is open to CHP students and will include speeches by David Flanagan, General Counsel for the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, President Sandra Featherman and keynote speaker Jonathan Louis Burstein, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. It will also include various breakout sessions and exhibits featuring many medical and disaster specialist teams.
Due to many outside exhibits, parking at Westbrook College Campus will be at a premium on April 13th. Please try to car pool or park on Forest Avenue, Stevens Avenue or the surrounding area.
For more information, or for non-CHP students who are interested in attending, contact Tenzin Dawa at tdawa@une.edu or ext. 4521, or visit the website www.une.edu/chp/symposium.asp for a complete schedule.
Habitat for Humanity Walkathon
The Spring Habitat for Humanity Walkathon is scheduled for Saturday April 15. Registration is open from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. in the Finley Gym on the Westbrook College Campus. The 7.5-mile walk starts and finishes at the gym. A sponsor sheet is available at http://www.habitatportlandme.org/ . For more information, please contact Justin Leblanc at 772-2800.
Harvard scholar Elizabeth Perry to present Featherman Lecture on future of the Chinese revolution April 18th
Harvard professor Elizabeth Perry will present the 2006 Featherman lecture, "Is the Chinese Revolution Dead?," at noon on April 18, 2006 at the Campus Center Multipurpose Rooms at the University of New England's campus in Biddeford.
Born in China and raised in Japan, Elizabeth Perry received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan and taught at the Universities of Arizona, Washington (Seattle), and California (Berkeley) before moving to Harvard University where she is currently the Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government. More Information
Noted economist to discuss ‘Ecological Economics’ on April 19th 
Economist and author Jonathan Harris, Ph.D., will discuss the emerging field of ecological economics at noon on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 as part of the Core Connections Spring Lecture Series.
Harris will address “Ecological and Economic Perspectives on Global Issues: Resolving the Contradictions” in the St. Francis Room, Ketchum Library on the University Campus.
Ecologists and economists often disagree about the nature of global environment problems, and the appropriate response to them. These different perspectives arise from differing conceptual models and methodological approaches. Harris will discuss ecological economics and its attempts to combine insights from various disciplines to respond to such issues as global climate change, population growth and energy use in the twenty-first century. More information
Award-winning writer Dava Sobel to speak at UNE
Dava Sobel, award-winning writer of Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, and former New York Times science reporter, will be speaking on two different dates at UNE.
She will speak on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. in the Maine Women Writers Collection (in the Abplanalp Library on the Westbrook College Campus), part of the MWWC's Spring 2006 Event Series.
On Thursday, April 20, 2006, Sobel will also present a lecture at 12:00 p.m. in the St. Francis Room, on the University Campus. A book sale and signing will take place prior to the lecture at 11:30 a.m. She will discuss the art and challenges of writing about science and the history of science for a general audience. This lecture is part of the Core Connections Spring Lecture Series focusing on “The Art of Science/ The Science of Art."
We apologize for the WCC lecture's potential conflict with the WCC Undergraduate Student Award Ceremony, but we hope that those interested will still enjoy the second lecture the following day.
More information.
World Famous Environmental Writer to Speak on Global Warming April 20th
World-renowned environmental journalist Mark Hertsgaard will discuss ways we can survive global warming in a lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 20th in the Simard-Pettapiece-Wescott Rooms, Campus Center.
The lecture, “Living through the Storm: How We Can Survive Global Warming,” is free and open to the public.
Hertgaard has covered the global warming story all over the world and written a popular book about the subject, Earth Odyssey, which has brought about worldwide reforms and is taught in UNE’s Introduction to Environmental Issues course. An independent journalist and author, he currently serves as the environmental correspondent for The Nation and has also written for The Atlantic, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. The current issue of Vanity Fair features Hertgaard’s exploration of how global warming snuck up on us and what we can do to fight it.
He has taught non-fiction writing at Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at Berkley, and has lectured at Harvard, Yale and Stanford Universities.
This lecture, part of UNE’s observance of Earth Day (April 22), is co-sponsored by Earth’s ECO, UNE’s student environmental club, the Department of Environmental Studies, the UNE Environmental Council and the Department of Sociology.
Aging and Public Health: Optimizing the Linkages to Benefit Maine Elders
The Maine UNE Geriatric Education Center is cosponsoring a conference on “Connecting Public Health, Aging and Clinical Resources: Optimizing the Linkages to Benefit Maine Elders” on April 26th for 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Maple Hill Farm in Hallowell Maine.
The goal of the event is to identify and highlight the linkages between Maine aging and public health resources and to strengthen the linkage between clinicians and aging and public health recourses to enhance communication, coordination, collaboration and ultimately, the number of people served.
Registration is $20 with a deadline of April 18th.
Cosponsors include the Harvard School of Public Health, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Maine Center for Public Health and the New England Alliance for Workforce Development.
For more information on the event, contact Ann Conway at aconway@mcph.org. For more information on registering or to receive a registration form, contact Dani Kalian at dkalian@mcph.org.
Workshop for medical professionals and students on Handheld Personal Digital Assistants and Epocrates Software
A workshop for medical professionals and students on the usefulness and value of handheld personal digital assistants (PDAs) and Epocrates (user software) will be held from 1 to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 27, in Room 233, Blewett Hall, Westbrook College Campus.
The workshop, “Introduction to Handhelds and Epocrates,” will be taught by Rorie Lee, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of family medicine and assistant director of medical education at the College of Osteopathic Medicine. The workshop, part of the University of Maine Center on Aging’s Spring 2006 Professional Excellence in Geriatrics Series (PEGS), is co-sponsored by UNECOM and the Maine UNE Geriatric Education Center. More information.
Harvard scholar David Haig to speak on ‘The Divided Self: Brain, Brawn and Superego,’ April 28th 
Harvard biologist David Haig, Ph.D., will deliver the fifth annual William D. Hamilton Memorial Lecture on "The Divided Self: Brain, Brawn and the Superego" April 28, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. in the College of Health Professions Lecture Hall on the University of New England's Westbrook College Campus, 716 Stevens, Ave., Portland.
The lecture, sponsored by the University of New England's New England Institute, is free and open to the public.
Haig will discuss emerging theories on the conflicts between genes within a single individual, an organism at odds with itself. He will use the example of conflicts between maternally and paternally imprinted genes: genes that are expressed only when inherited from one's mother and those expressed only when inherited from one's father.
More information
American medicine's powerful influence on the American dream is the topic of author Carl Elliott's April 28th Crosley Lecture
More and more Americans are using drugs and medical technology to make themselves more attractive, happier and better performers, according to Carl Elliott, M.D., Ph.D.
Ethics scholar and author Dr. Elliott will address this issue in his lecture “American Medicine Meets the American Dream” at noon on Friday, April 28, 2006 in Room 6, Blewett Hall on the Westbrook College Campus.
The 2006 Crosley Lecture is free and open to the public.
“There is nothing new about the American pursuit of happiness. But how are we to understand the steady incorporation of medicine into that pursuit?,” asks Dr. Elliott. “Over the past half-century American doctors have begun to use the tools of medical technology not merely to make sick people better, but to make well people better than well. From Botox, Viagra and Propecia to antidepressants, breast augmentation and sex-reassignment surgery, vast numbers of Americans now deploy the tools of medical technology to transform themselves, ward off shame and social stigma, and achieve self-fulfillment. Why do we feel so uneasy about these drugs and therapies even as we embrace them? What has drawn American medicine into the pursuit of the American dream?” More information
The 10th Annual University of New England Golf Classic will be held on Friday, May 19th at 8:00 a.m. at Nonesuch River Golf Course in Scarborough, Maine. The format is a four-person scramble and the cost is $120 per person. Please come support UNE's Athletic Department by taking part in this year's fundraising Classic.
New to the tournament this year will be a chance to win great hole-in-one prizes from a new car to a choice of airline tickets or a 7-day cruise. All you have to do is knock it in the hole! To enter a foursome in the Classic, please contact Kasey Keenan at ext. 2555 ASAP.
Broyles I.L., Ed.D., Lee R., Ph.D., M.P.H., Savidge M., Ph.D., Sprafka S., Ph.D., Schwalenberg-Leip E., D.O., and Thompson K., Ph.D., colleagues in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, presented a poster session on “Formative Evaluation of Curriculum Change: The Students’ Perspective” at the annual PreDoctoral Education conference of the Society for Teaching in Family Medicine, Feb. 2-4 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Elizabeth DeWolfe, Ph.D., chair of the Department of History and co-director of the Women's Studies Program, presented two talks in honor of Women's History Month. At the University of Maine, Orono, De Wolfe presented "The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories" as part of the UMaine History Department Colloquium (co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Program). DeWolfe was also the featured speaker at the annual Women's Studies Banquet at the University of Maine at Farmington where she gave a talk titled "Telling Stories," which featured tales of fact, fiction and family lore in DeWolfe's research on the murder of local mill girl Berengera Caswell.
David L. Smith, Ph.D., of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, was cited in an article titled ‘Somos ensinados desde pequeninos a mentir’ in the Portuguese newspaper Público.
The North East Osteopathic Medical Education Network (OPTI) participated in the American Academy of Osteopathy Convocation on March 22 -25, 2006 in Birmingham, Alabama. Their purpose was to talk with osteopathic medical students from all over the country and interest them in becoming interns and residents in their partner teaching hospitals. OPTI provided current information so that the students will be prepared to make informed decisions when it becomes time for them to choose residency programs.
OPTI were among almost 80 exhibitors at this annual convocation, and NEOMEN was selected as the First Place recipient for the Exhibitor Excellence Award by the National Student Fellows Association. They are very honored by this award and proudly display it at osteopathic student recruitment programs.
Oluwaseye (Sheye) Alabi, MS I, has been awarded the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) Geriatric Medical Student Fellowship for 2006-07. This highly competitive and prestigious aging related research award is designed to encourage medical students to consider a career in academic geriatrics. AFAR has partnered with the NIA and several foundations to continue and strengthen the original Hartford/AFAR Medical Student Geriatric Scholars Program.
Sheye's 8-week summer research site will be the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is in the process of choosing his on-site mentor and research focus. Sheye's UNECOM research sponsor is Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., who has sponsored six previous UNECOM Students since 2002.
Three UNECOM Students received awards for their research at the 5th Annual NEOMEN (Northeast Osteopathic Medicine Education Network) Research Day held at UNE on March 31st.
Joy Guerrieri Bang (MS II) received 1st place for her research on At-Risk Drinking and Disability in Older Adults (funded by: AFAR Fellowship); Nicole Lynn (MS III) received 2nd place for her research on Elders' Assessment of the File of Life (FoL)Card (funded by: UNECOM Dean's Research Fellowship); and Atnina Giovanis received 3rd place for her research on Continuity of Care for Older Adults with Recent Hospitalizations (funded by: UNECOM Dean's Research Fellowship). Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D. is their research mentor/advisor.
The Maine Space Grant Consortium’s (MSGC) Maine Aerospace Workforce Development program has awarded Tariq Chohan a NASA research position for the summer. The competitive program provides outstanding Maine undergraduates with a challenging, mentored 10-week research experience at a NASA Field Center. Tariq, a junior in the Medical Biology Program at UNE, will be mentored by Richard Boyle, at the BioVIS Technical Center, NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. He will work on the “Neural Responses To The Space Environment” project - including the use of magnetic levitation as a tool.
John Langevin, Ph.D., assistant dean of students for support services, and Hahna Patterson, M.A., clinical counselor, have been invited to present at the National Conference on Student Recruitment, Marketing and Retention on July 18-21, 2006 in Denver, Colorado. Their presentation will address the successful pilot program utilizing the College Student Inventory in 2005 that resulted in an expanded MELMAC grant funded initiative in 2006.
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