University of New England

Faculty & Staff News - 2007

 

December 16-22, 2007

Matthew Anderson, Ph.D., associate professor of English and Anouar Majid, Ph.D., chair and professor of English, will be attending the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Chicago next week.

Anderson is giving paper titled "Gender, Justice, and Judgment:  A Jury of Her Own and the Silkwood Case."  The paper is part of a panel on Gendered Justice, arranged by the Discussion Group on Law and Literature.

Majid is giving a paper titled "The Litmus Test of Disbelief" at a panel on Religion and Postcolonial Literature.  Majid is also this year's chair of the Arabic Literature and Culture Discussion Group, and, as such, has organized a panel on “The Arab” that is being featured in this year's presidential theme on The Humanities at Work in the World.

Marilyn R. Gugliucci, Ph.D., director, UNECOM Geriatric Education and Research, has been invited to serve on the Office of Elder Services Healthy Aging Advisory Board. This board is comprised of geriatric and gerontology leaders throughout Maine and is assisting the Office of Elder Services to attain state goals related to Healthy Maine 2010, which includes education, practice and policy development in aging.

Dr Gugliucci has also accepted invitations to serve on the Board of Directors for 2 local organizations, Southern Maine Agency on Aging (SMAA) and St. Andre's Health Care Facility. Serving on these boards  provides UNE new opportunities for program growth and expansion in aging with our community neighbors.

December 9 - 15

On Friday, Dec. 14, 2007 Anouar Majid, Ph.D., chair and professor, Department of English, will give a talk about the forces undermining a vibrant civil society to service-learning professionals and VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America) members who are working on a variety of topics ranging from student leadership development to college-community outreach across the state of Maine.  The event is scheduled for 1 p.m. at Bowdoin College.

David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., associate professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, has accepted an invitation to be one of 30 speakers invited to a conference in Puebla, Mexico, in 2008. Other speakers invited include Steven Pinker,  Richard Dawkins, David Barash, and Daniel Gilbert.  The conference, entitled "La Ciudad de las Ideas" is sponsored by the Mexican think-tank Poder Civico A.C.  Smith will be speaking on "Why We Lie."

November 25  - December 1

On Nov. 21, George Young of the English Department delivered the keynote address at the plenary session of the four-day Tenth Annual Conference of  Scholarship Devoted to  N.F. Fedorov , jointly sponsored by the Russian National Library, the Maxim Gorky Institute of World Literature, The Philosophy Department of Moscow University, and the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.  Little known outside Russia, Fedorov was a nineteenth century religious thinker who significantly influenced Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Solovyov, and many leading figures in early  twentieth century Russian culture.   Young, who was introduced as the leading authority on Fedorov outside Russia, spoke in Russian on “The International Significance of Fedorov’s Ideas."

Ali Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Political Science Department, was invited to the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University to provide an introduction to Moustapha Akkad's film, Lion of the Desert,  on Tuesday, Nov. 13. The film was part of the academy's fall 2007 film/lecture series titled "Italy in the Wider World."

Susan J. Hillman, Ph.D., and Martha G. Corkery, Ed. D., presented the following paper at the 2007 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education, October 15-19, Quebec City, Canada: "A Case Study in Distance Education Delivery: Infrastructure Needs to Transition from Video-Based Instruction to On-line Delivery."

November 18 - 24

Markus Frederich, Ph.D., presented his research on thermal tolerance of crustaceans in an invited seminar at the Grice Marine Laboratory, College of Charleston, South Carolina. He was invited by the director of the Grice Marine Laboratory, Lou Burnett, who is a leader in the field of comparative invertebrate physiology. Frederich’s research addresses the question how increased temperatures, for example during global warming, affect the energy metabolism of crustaceans, with the goal to enhance understanding of the underlying cellular mechanisms that limit survival in warmer climates.

Richard J. LaRue, D.P.E., professor and chair of the Department of Exercise and Sport Performance, was inducted into the Elinor A. Crawford & William R. Thrall Hall of Excellence at the University of Northern Iowa's School of Health, Physical Education, and Leisure Services on Nov. 10, 2007. Located in the main lobby of the Wellness/Recreation Center, the Hall of Excellence provides recognition of distinguished graduates and captures the history of the School of Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services. The Hall was created to acknowledge its meritorious graduates and to encourage currently enrolled students to strive toward this recognition.

November 11 - 17

Anouar Majid, Ph.D., professor of English, will be presenting his new book, A Call for Heresy, at Washington DC's Busboys and Poets on Monday, November 19th at 6: 30 pm.

Michael Beaudoin, Ed.D., education professor, was one of two featured speakers at the fall dinner meeting of the Maine Fulbright Association.  His talk, which was an expansion of his article: "Passionate Nomads- Education in Ghana" - published in the Summer 2007 issue of UNE's Nexus magazine - emphasized the importance of having personal and professional cross-cultural experiences to improve U.S. international relations.

November 4 - 10

Ronald Deprez, Ph.D., M.P.H. and Amy Kinner, M.S. presented papers at three sessions of the annual American Public Health Association meeting held on Nov. 3-7, 2007 in Washington, DC.  Papers were presented on Improved Care for Chronic Conditions in Rural Maine, Improving Care for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Rural Maine: An IHI Collaborative, and Essential Components of Patient Self-Management.

The Improved Care for Chronic Conditions in Rural Maine Project was designed to enhance the use of evidence-based medicine, patient self management and linkages between community resources, patients and providers for patients diagnosed with diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, heart failure, COPD and/or depression.  Improving Care for Patients with COPD in Rural Maine: An IHI Collaborative sought to demonstrate the effectiveness of using evidence-based best practice guidelines and patient support for behavior change in the rural practice settings. The Essential Components of Patient Self Management is based on the literature and our experience in quality improvement. 

The Center for Health Policy, Planning and Research welcomes Nancy Brossoie, M.S., A.B.D. who joined CHPPR in the fall of 2007 as our senior research associate.  Nancy brings to the Center 20 years of experience in the delivery and evaluation of community-based programs in behavioral health and come and community-based services for state and non-profit agencies.  Her research interests include developing/evaluating community capacity, studying quality improvement activities within organizations, and developing consumer satisfaction measures.

Ms. Brossoie’s background is informed by a strong background in gerontology.  In 2005, she was named an AARP National Scholar for her research interests in how community members and community programming contribute to quality of life and facilitate home and community-based living.  She is concluding her doctoral education in the field of human development through Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University where she most recently served as adjunct faculty and research associate/project coordinator for the Center for Gerontology.

Holly Korda, M.A., Ph.D., associate dean of Community Programs, with colleagues David A. Wagstaff, Ph.D. of Pennsylvania State University and Karl J. McCleary, Ph.D., M.P.H., United Organ Sharing Network, authored an article based on their research with New Jersey’s SHARE Network, “How African Americans Express their Organ Donation Intentions.”  The article will be featured in the December 2007 issue of Progress in Transplantation.

Judith A. Metcalf, APRN, BC, MS, recently planned and coordinated a conference titled, "Extending the Reach of Oral Health to Young Children: What YOU Need to Know About Caries Risk Assessment, Behavior Management, and Managing Traumatic Injuries and Recognizing Signs of Child Abuse and Neglect in the General Dental Practice." Metcalf is director of UNE's Maine Geriatric Center, and coordinator of AHEC's Oral Health Continuing Professional Education Initiative, both in UNECOM's Division of Community Programs.
 
She planned the conference in conjunction with Judith Feinstein, Director, Maine Oral Health Program and Charles Dwyer, Jr. Director, Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, Maine CDC. The conference is one of the products of the Workforce Improvement Project, supported by the Dental Health Improvement Act, originally sponsored by Maine's Senator Susan Collins, through a grant from the US Health Resources and Services Administration. It was held on Oct. 27, 2007 in Bangor Maine, and more than 80 dental professionals from Wells to Lubec attended the conference. Faculty included Howard Needleman, D.M.D., Man Wai Ng, D.D.S., and Isabelle Chase, D.D.S., F.R.C.D (C) all from Children's Hospital in Boston, Mass. and Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Anne B. Zill, director of the UNE Art Gallery, was honored in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 30 at the Sewall Belmont House, home of Suffrage pioneer Alice Paul, as one of a group of women profiled in a book called Feminists Who Changed America; 1963-1975.

Michael Beaudoin, Ed.D., education professor, recently served as an accreditation team member for the Distance Education & Training Council, at Brigham Young University and the University of Atlanta.

Jim Cavanaugh, PT, Ph.D, NCS, assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, recently published the following article: "Approximate entropy detects the effect of a secondary cognitive task on postural control in healthy young adults: a methodological report."  The article appears in the October 2007 issue of the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation.

October 28 - November 3

Emily N. Rines, M.P.H., C.H.E.S., director of the Coastal Healthy Communities Coalition in UNECOM's Division of Community Programs, was named president-elect of the Maine Public Health Association at MPHA's Annual Meeting, Oct. 23, 2007.  Ms. Rines has been an active member of MPHA and is an appointee to the Public Health Workgroup for the State of Maine. 

Five members of UNE's Institutional Assessment Committee will have an article published in the journal, Planning for Higher Education in the upcoming winter issue.  The article is entitled, "Improving Institutional Effectiveness: Description and Application of an Implementation Model" and details UNE's assessment program.  The authors of the article are: Michael Sheldon, associate professor and director of the Department of Physical Therapy, Andrew Golub, dean of library services, John Langevin, assistant dean of students for Student Support Services and director of Counseling Services, Paulette St. Ours, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Barbara Swartzlander, director of library public services.

October 21-27

Andrew Golub, dean of library services, recently served on a regional accreditation visiting team for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. The school being accredited was Fairfield University in Connecticut and the campus site visit was October 21-25, 2007.

Charles W. Ford, Ph.D. presented “Purim and its Roots in Esther” at the RHCC, Lake Wylie, South Carolina, October 10, 2007 and “The Major Sources of Distant Education Students who are working adults:  Teachers, Nurses, and Foreign Students in country”  at the Adult Higher Education Alliance, Dayton, Ohio, October 12, 2007.

October 14 - 20

Holly Korda, M.A., Ph.D., UNECOM associate dean of Community Programs and associate professor of Public Health, facilitated technical assistance sessions for university research and transplant program teams at the 3rd Annual National Learning Congress for grantees of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Division of Transplantation (DOT), in Nashville, TN on October 9 and 10, 2007.  As a guest researcher for technical assistance, Dr. Korda led sessions addressing community research methods and techniques to evaluate interventions and registry development campaigns to increase organ donor registration, family consent to transplant, and live donation.  Participants included national grantees from DOT’s Social and Behavioral Model Interventions to Increase Organ and Tissue Donation, State Donor Registry Support, and Public Education Efforts to Increase Solid Organ and Tissue Donation programs.  The workshops were held concurrently with sessions for HRSA’s Organ Donation & Transplantation Breakthrough Collaborative and the Transplant Growth & Management Collaborative, which address hospital-based performance improvement and benchmarking of organ procurement and transplantation nationwide.

Later in October 2007 Dr. Korda will conduct pre-implementation workshops for HRSA’s  newly-funded grantees from universities and transplant organizations in Washington, DC.  She has participated with DOT as a research and technical advisor and reviewer specializing in community-based research partnerships since 2000, as part of the agency’s efforts to build research capacity and an evidence base for organ donation and transplant in the U.S.

Elizabeth De Wolfe, Ph.D., associate professor of history, will be discussing her new book, The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories, on Tuesday, October 16, 12:00 p.m. at the Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St. Portland. De Wolfe's book explores the story of a young Canadian mill worker found murdered in Saco in 1850. Thanks to evidence left at the scene, a local physician was arrested and tried for the death of Mary Bean, the name given to the unidentified young girl; the cause of death was failed abortion. Bean’s murder was a sensational case that drew much attention and highlighted the seamy side of rapid industrial growth and public anxiety over the emerging economic roles of women. Free and open to the public.

October 7 - 13

India Broyles, Ed.D.,College of Osteopathic Medicine, presented an issues and ideas session on “Formative Evaluation:  Stages of Concern during Curriculum Change” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum in Cleveland Ohio, on October 4, 2007.  Dr. Broyles also served as facilitator of a panel that engaged in critical discussion of Dr. Carl Glickman’s keynote speech on “The Pedagogy of Democracy: Toggling between Education and Community” that was presented to the session for "Professors of Curriculum,  an invited group of professors limited nationally to 125 members.  In addition, Dr. Broyles participated in the Executive Council meetings as part of her 2nd year term of office.

Anouar Majid, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of English,  was in Manhattan Oct. 3rd for an interview with Bill Moyers for an upcoming program on PBS.  On Oct. 10th, Majid is scheduled to read from his new book, "A Call for Heresy," at Bluestockings bookstore in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The following day he flies to Buffalo to read from his novel in progress, tentatively titled "Blood of Nations, at Medaille College.

September 30 - October 6

Michael Beaudoin, education professor, is the subject of a recently published journal article: Garcia, M. and Glogauer, A. (2007). Conversation With a True Maverick: Michael F. Beaudoin. Distance Learning. 4(3), 77-82.

Elizabeth De Wolfe, Ph.D., associate professor & chair, Department of History, will be reading from her new book "The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories," Tuesday, October 2, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. at Wiggle Weigle's Books, 25 Alfred Street, Biddeford (next to the police station).

September 23-29

Michael Beaudoin, Professor of Education, has had published in UNE's alumni magazine an account of his experiences and impressions while serving as  a Fulbright Fellow in Ghana in spring 2007. Passionate Nomads-Education in Ghana. NEXUS. Summer 2007.

On Tuesday, September 18th, John Langevin, Ph.D., assistant dean of students for Student Support Services, was the keynote speaker at the Biddeford-Saco Chamber of Commerce & Industry Third Tuesday Community Workshops.  Dr. Langevin presented on "Addiction Behavior Control."  The workshop was held at the University of New England.

On Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m., at the Dyer Library in Saco, University of New England History Professor and author Elizabeth De Wolfe will discuss her new book, "The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories."  De Wolfe will talk about unraveling the story of Berengera Caswell (a.k.a. Mary Bean) and share excerpts from the book.

September 16-22

Mike Sheldon, associate professor and director, Department of Physical Therapy, recently published the following article: "Evidence-based practice in occupational health: Description and application of an implementation effectiveness model". Work 29 (2): 137-143.  The article focuses on the implementation of evidenced-based practice within the occupational health practice arena.

Mary Taddia, administrative assistant to development, Office of Institutional Advancement, published a review of Richard Flanagan's new novel, The Unknown Terrorist in the latest online edition of Tingis, A Moroccan-American Magazine of Ideas and Culture.

September 9-15

Jeff Nevers, recruiting specialist for Career Services, was interviewed and photographed for the Maine Sunday Telegram's Job Spotlight feature that is printed in the paper's classified section each Sunday. The Press Herald is holding a job fair on Monday the 17th, and they wanted a neutral job search specialist to explain how attendees can benefit from visiting a job fair. The story is scheduled to appear Sept. 16th.

September 2 - 8

David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, will have his paper, "Interrogating the Westermarck Hypothesis: Limitations, Problems and Alternatives," appear in the newest issue of the Biological Theory journal published by MIT Press.  In the paper, Smith argues that the prevailing sociobiological hypothesis of the cognitive mechanisms mediating incest avoidance is flawed and he proposes an alternative based on maternal phenotype matching.

August 26 - September 1


Elizabeth De Wolfe, Ph.D., associate professor and chair in the Department of History, was interviewed by New Hamsphire Public Radio for the August 31, 2007 edition of the "Front Porch" program. De Wolfe spoke about her new book, The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories, published in August by Kent State University Press.


August 12 - 18

Sue Stableford, M.P.H., M.S.B., and the Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Health Literacy Center, are moving to the Center for Health Policy Planning and Research. The Center will now become the Health Literacy Institute, a research and training porgram within CHPPR. Stableford will continue to serve as director, a position she has held since 1989. Under Sue’s guidance the HLI has become nationally known in health communication training and education.

Stableford is currently the plain language trainer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Massachusetts General Hospital. She also directs and presents the UNE sponsored summer and fall Health Literacy Seminars.

A letter to the editor by David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, was published in the current issue of The Nation magazine.

August 5 - 11

Kathryn Thompson, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition, David Manyan, Ph.D., associate dean for basic sciences, and Loren Wold, Ph.D., senior research assistant of pharmacology, presented a poster at the 11th annual meeting of the  International Association of Medical Science Educators in Cleveland, Ohio, July 21-24, 2007.  The poster, titled "Observations of Learning and Retention Using Team-Based Learning in a First Year Medical Biochemistry Course," was a finalist for the IAMSE Outstanding Poster Award.

An interview with David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, was featured in the "First Person" column of the Boston Globe Magazine on August 5, 2007. Smith was also quoted in Eve Tahmincioglu's "Your Career" column on MSNBC.com on August 6, 2007 in a piece called "How to recover from a first-job screw-up".

July 29 - August 4

Barbara Martin, administrative assistant in the Department of Physical Therapy, won two top honors at the 30th Maine Quilt Festival in Augusta this past weekend, winning both the first prize ribbon and the Viewers Choice Award with her quilt Autumn Gold.  The design was an adaptation of traditional Baltimore Album style patterns. The quilt, which took ten years to complete, was hand appliquéd and includes hand-embroidered quotations. It was hand-quilted by Madeleine Robinson of Yarmouth.

Emily Rines, MPH, CHES, director of the Coastal Healthy Communities Coalition, part of the Division of Community Programs in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, was selected to participate in the inaugural class of Maine's new statewide Health Leadership Development program sponsored by the Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership. This September she will join a class of 32 emerging and evolving leaders enrolled in the program. Rines received scholarships from the Maine Public Health Association and the Hanley Center to attend this program.

David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, was quoted in an article titled "From child to wild. We've seen young stars self-destruct before. Why, Lindsay, why?" published in the July 29, 2007 edition of the St. Petersburg Times.

July 22 - 28

David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, has had an essay review of The New Unconscious (Oxford Series in Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience) published in the current issue of the British philosophical journal, Mind.

Smith will also be interviewed in the "First Person" column of the Boston Globe Magazine on Aug. 5, 2007 about his book The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War, which will be released on Aug. 7.

Ali Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Political Science Department, was recently invited to serve on the National Screening Committee of the Institute of International Education that reviews applications of U.S. graduate students applying for the Fulbright-Hays Program to study in North Africa.  The committee will convene on Dec. 4, 2007 to review approximately 75 applications.
 
Professor Ahmida also returned from a productive trip to Libya in June where he presented a paper "New Critical Trends in American Political Science" at a conference on Public Policies in Modern Libya, organized by Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya June 6-11, 2007. He also did field work research at the five locations of the Italian Colonial concentration camps in Libya between 1929-34, and interviewed five survivors of these camps.

July 15 - 21

Patricia Kelley, M.S., associate dean of students in UNECOM, and James Gaffney, M.A., coordinator of UNECOM recruitment and alumni services, presented a poster titled “Building Better Relationships with Applicants, Current Students and Alumni Through E-newsletters” at the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) Annual Meeting in Baltimore in June. Gaffney, Kelley and Steve Smith, coordinator of medical student services, created the poster. It was based on the UNECOM Recruitment, Student and Alumni Services’ (RSAS) long-running student and faculty enewsletter, The COMmunicator, young UNECOM Express applicant enewsletter and new UNECOM alumni enewsletter.

James Gaffney, M.A., coordinator of UNECOM recruitment and alumni services, was selected as vice-chair of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) Admissions Officers Council at the AACOM Annual Meeting in June. He will assume the chair position in June 2008.

Steve Smith, coordinator of medical student services, was recognized for Best Article or Feature Story in the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine’s (AACOM) Excellence in Communication Awards. Smith’s in-depth student profile “Shake the Mango Trees: Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang, MSI,” was featured in the December 2006 issue of the UNECOM Recruitment, Student and Alumni Services (RSAS) student, faculty and staff e-newsletter, The COMmunicator. Each monthly issue features a similar student profile, along with UNECOM news, events and recognitions.

Rita Brown, clinical coordinator in UNECOM, presented a pre-conference workshop titled “Clinical Coordinator: Bean Counter, Counselor and Choreographer” at the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) Annual Meeting in Baltimore in June. The workshop provided strategies for juggling the many responsibilities in moving medical students from the classroom to graduation and postgraduate training. B. Renee Overton from the AAMC joined Brown’s workshop as a guest speaker.

John Lemons, professor in the Department of Environmental Studies, has had the following article recently published: Lemons, J. 2007. "Local Development and Climate Protection: A Case Study From Alaska." International Journal of Environmental Studies 64: 507-514. The article focuses on problems and prospects for both meeting needs of local development and protection of the global climate.

India Broyles, Ed.D., associate professor for medical education in the Department of Pediatrics in COM, and Cynthia Cartwright MSE.d, RN, MT , of the Maine Health: Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation presented a session “Portfolio Assessment of Core Competencies” at the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland on July 29, 2007. 

India Broyles, Ed.D., associate professor for medical education in the Department of Pediatrics in COM, and Mildred Savidge, Ph.D.,medical education specialist in the Department of Family Medicine in COM, conducted a workshop “Formative Evaluation:  Stages of Concern during Curriculum Change” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland on July 29, 2007. 


June 10 - 16

On June 8, 2007, President Danielle Ripich, Ph.D. was honored at her alma mater Cleveland State University’s 17th Annual Distinguished Alumni Award Awards Dinner. Each year the university chooses one recipient from each of the colleges to be awarded the Distinguished Alumni title for their accomplishments and their commitment to Cleveland State. President Ripich earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in speech pathology from Cleveland State.

June 3 - 9

Amy Kinner, M.S., epidemiologist and research associate, The Center for Health Policy, Planning and Research, recently presented a paper at the scientific session of National Rural Health Association’s (NRHA) 2007 Annual Conference in Anchorage, Alaska May 15-18.  Her presentation titled "The Rural Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Improvement Initiative," presented the evaluation results of a three year chronic care improvement project undertaken with over 25 primary care practices from Aroostook County to Kennebec County Maine. The project resulted from a 2001 Community Health Needs Assessment of Northeastern Maine by the Public Health Resource Group, now CHPPR, which substantiated the need to improve the care of patients with COPD. 

This Initiative, funded in part by the Maine Health Access Foundation and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, is currently in its third year.  It began with a pilot project in two primary care practices in Aroostook County and in the two following years involved 23 practices in which best practice guidelines based on the Global initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) were implemented using Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) Breakthrough Series learning session model. To evaluate the changes in practice organization and behavior and patient health improvement, patient-level data were analyzed from medical records and practice process and infrastructure assessments were completed before, during and after the project. For more information contact Amy Kinner at akinner@une.edu.

May 27 - June 2

Betsey Gray, MSW, clinical associate professor and director of field education in the School of Social Work, and Diane Beaupre, MSW, (a graduate of the School of Social Work) were keynote speakers at the annual Massachusetts National Association of Social Workers Nursing Home Conference in Bedford, Massachussetts May 24-25, 2007.  Their presentation was on "Grief vs. Depression in the Nursing Home Setting".

May 20 - 26

Karen Pardue, M.S., BSN, RN, CNE, associate professor and assistant director in the Department of Nursing and Health Services Management, and Nancy MacRae, associate professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy, recently had an article titled "Use of Readers Theater to Enhance Interdisciplinary Geriatric Education" published in the June 2007 issue of Educational Gerontology. The article describes an innovative multi-disciplinary teaching strategy conducted within the College of Health Professions Interdisciplinary Geriatric Education Program.

On May 17, 2007, the College of Health Professions' Faculty Assembly sponsored a book signing celebration that featured Jane O'Brien, Ph.D., OTR/L, associate professor and graduate and research coordinator in the Occupational Therapy Department, and David Ward, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Health Professions. Also featured were Gary Kielhofner, DrPH, OTR/L, FAOTA, and Renee Taylor, Ph.D., both professors in the Department of Occupational Therapy and Ph.D. Program in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Drs. Kielhofner and Taylor were at UNE to present a two-day workshop on disability studies.

Why We Lie, by David Livingston Smith, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, has appeared in a Taiwanese edition under the title I Am, Therefore I Lie. Smith's new book, The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War,  is set for  publication by St. Martins August 7th.

May 13 - 19

John Alexander, M.D., FACEP, assistant professor in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Joshua Morrison, MSII, a student in COM, had a cover article titled "Assessing and Managing Exacerbations of COPD" published in the March 2007 edition of Emergency Medicine, The Practice Journal for Emergency Physicians.

May 6 - 12

With the mentorship of Marilyn R. Gugliucci, MA, Ph.D., Director, Geriatric Education and Research, three prestigious and competitive awards were attained by UNECOM students.

Daniel Sheps, MS II was awarded the highly competitive Betty Ford Center - Summer Institute for Medical Students (SIMS) Fellowship. He will be on site at the Betty Ford Center in California this summer where he will work with patients and their families. Student Physician Sheps is the third UNECOM student to receive this award in the past eight years.

Robert Levine, MS I was awarded the American Federation for Aging Research Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) Fellowship. Student Physician Levine will be the first UNECOM student to conduct research at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. He will receive on-site mentorship from Linda Fried, M.D., an internationally known physician for her work in preventive heart disease for eight weeks this summer.

Kimberly Salacyk, MS I was awarded the AMSA End of Life Fellowship and Scholarship. She will be in Ft. Lauderdale/Miami for six weeks this summer receiving intense end of life training as well as work with people who are in dying process and their families. This fellowship is supported by The AMSA Foundation and VITAS Innovative Hospice Care. At the completion of the fellowship, Kim will be responsible for integrating her learning into the UNECOM curriculum to bring more training and information to UNECOM students on End of Life Care.

Dr Gugliucci is the UNECOM Sponsor for Daniel Sheps and Kimberly Salacyk, and the UNECOM Research Mentor for Robert Levine.

Marilyn R. Gugliucci, MA, Ph.D., Director, Geriatric Education and Research, presented her research titled "Medical Students Live as Elder Nursing Home Residents for an Extended Period" at the American Geriatrics Society 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting in Seattle ,Wash., May 2-6, 2007.  This ethnographic qualitative research project set a precedent for geriatric training and no similar project has been identified. The two-fold purpose is to (1) strengthen medical students interpersonal skills with older adults; and (2) provide an in-depth, varied, and first hand understanding of elder health care in an institutionalized setting.

On May 29, 2007, the first male UNECOM student, Stephen Fosmire, MS I, will be admitted into the Maine Veterans Home in South Paris for a two week duration.

Paul Burlin, Ph.D., interim dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, presented a lecture titled "Maine-Hawaiian Connections" on May 10, 2007 as part of the Bethel Historical Society's 2007 lecture series, "Maine Character and Characters". Burlin discussed how Maine people influenced the history and development of Hawaii.  

Markus Frederich, Ph.D. assistant professor in biology, presented his research “AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) affects temperature tolerance in the rock crab, Cancer irroratus” at the Experimental Biology, FASEB, meeting in Washington, DC. The presentation was co-authored with honors student and Jacques Downs Award recipient Michaela O’Rourke (med bio ’07), as well as Christina Bucicchia (med bio ’07) and Nathan Furey (marine bio ’09). Michaela O’Rourke also presented her poster as a finalist in the David Bruce Award session, a national competition for undergraduate research, sponsored by the American Physiological Society.

April 29 - May 5

Jane Carreiro, D.O., associate professor and chair of the Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Department at UNE College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Karen Steele, D.O. of West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine have been awarded a $100,000 to study the effects of osteopathic manipulation on middle ear effusion in children with acute otitis media.  The year long study, a multi-centered single blinded, controlled clinical trial is a collaboration between the two schools, using the UNE  University Health Care pediatric site in Portland Maine. This study is a progression from previous studies published by the two Co-I's.

For further information please contact Dr. Carreiro by email at jcarreiro@une.edu

Wanda Anderson, M.S.W., clinical assistant professor in the School of Social Work, presented "Strength-based Social Work (Supervision, Administration and Practice)" at the National Association of Social Workers Maine Chapter 2007 Annual Conference, April 12-13.

Visiting assistant professor Dr. Frank Brooks presented "Transgender Behavior in Boys: The Social Work Response" at the Society for Social Work Research conference in San Francisco this past January.

Shelley Cohen-Konrad, Ph.D., assistant professor in the School of Social Work, has presented (with Dr. Kate Eastman) “Social Work and Pediatric End-of-Life Care: The values of compassion, continuity, community and cultural sensitivity in practice” at the National Association of Social Workers Maine Chapter 2007 Annual Conference, April 12-13. She had just returned from Salt Lake where she presented at a national palliative care conference.  Dr. Cohen - Konrad has also been invited to present at the International Death, Grief and Bereavement Conference this June.

On January 16th, Dr. Cohen-Konrad received a notice that OMEGA had accepted her manuscript, titled "What Parents of Seriously Ill Children Value: Parent to Parent Connection and Mentorship", for publication.  Dr. Cohen-Konrad will also be receiving the Simmons Alumni Harriet Bartlett Award for her written work on mothers of children with disabilities.

Clay Graybeal, Ph.D., professor in the School of Social Work, presented his manuscript titled "Evidence for the Art of Social Work" at the National Association of Social Workers Maine Chapter 2007 Annual Conference, April 12-13.  He was recently notified that the manuscript has also been accepted for publication in Families in Society.

Marcia Cohen, Ph.D., and Clay Graybeal, Ph.D., both professors in the School of Social Work, have had their manuscript "Using Solution-Oriented Techniques in Mutual Aid Groups" accepted for publication in Social Work with Groups. 

On March 24 and 25, Steve Rose, Ph.D., professor in the School of Social Work, presented two papers at the second annual conference, Social Work: A Profession Worth Fighting for?, at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland.  Dr. Rose has also had a paper/poster presentation accepted at the First International Conference of the Journal of Public Health in Lisbon, which will be held in May.  Both of the conferences are interested in his work on the social determinants of co-occurring mental illness and medical conditions.

Assistant professor in the School of Social Work, Nancy Shore, Ph.D., will be presenting a paper at the International Qualitative Inquiry Conference.  She has also been invited to serve on a panel titled "IRB Reform: Changing Policy for Community Protections, Translating IRB Research to Policy and Practice."

Nancy Shore, Ph.D., assistant professor in the School of Social Work, and Elizabeth Richards have had their manuscript titled “Promoting Ethical Research” published in the Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics.  Richards graduated from the School of Social Work last year and presented a portion of this research at last year's CHP Research Day.  

Diana Crowell, Ph.D., RN, CNAA, BC, interim director and associate professor in the School of Nursing, an appraiser for the Magnet Recognition Program®, has been recognized by the Commission for her exemplary skills and knowledge of the Magnet Program and has successfully completed the training needed to move from magnet Fellow status to that of a full-fledged team member.

Thomas Mclaughlin, Ph.D., assistant professor in the School of Social Work, and Nancy Shore, Ph.D., assistant professor in the School of Social Work, have been granted the funding for their MeHAF proposal. 

Lisa Southwick, an assistant professor in the Physician Assistant Program, was invited to give the lunchtime keynote presentation titled, "Anatomy of an Office Visit", at the conference on Advancing the Profession of Health Care Interpreting March 30 - 31, 2007 at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa.  This national conference emphasized a public-private blend of health care interpreting delivery, policy-making, community advocacy, civil rights enforcement, research and leadership development to improve the health care delivery to diverse populations.  Professor Southwick’s abstracts for three workshops were also accepted and presented during this two-day event.  The workshops were Basic Medical Terminology for Interpreters, The 10 Most Common Diseases, and Legal issues in Healthcare Interpreting.

Professor Southwick also presented her abstract "Beyond the ADA: Providing Appropriate Care for Patients with Disabilities" at the New England Regional Conference on Eliminating Health Disparities in Mashantucket, CT, on April 2, 2007.  The presentation was based on a new chapter she is writing for the fourth edition of Physician Assistant: A Guide to Clinical Practice, which will be published in the fall of this year.

Mike Sheldon, P.T., M.S., associate professor and Program Director of the Physical Therapy Program,  will have an article published in the journal Work:  A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation.  It will appear in a 2007 issue.

Anne M. Summer, P.A., assistant professor and Project Director for the College of Health Professions' Interdisciplinary Geriatric Education program, has had an abstract, titled “Turf, team, and town: Learning an interdisciplinary team approach to relationship-centered care for the elderly” selected for Roundtable presentation during the 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition in Boston, MA.

Her abstract, selected from a large number of submittals, was judged to be of high quality and interest and she presented it on November 7, 2006.

Jane O'Brien, Ph.D., OTRL, assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy, was an editor on a text and resource manual that will be published by Mosby by April.  The text is titled Introduction to Occupational Therapy and the resource manual is titled Instructors Resource Manual for Introduction to Occupational Therapy.

Bonnie Davis, Ph.D., A.D.N., assistant professor in the School of Nursing, was a reviewer for the book titled Biostatistics for the Health Sciences, written by R. Clifford Blair and Richard A. Taylor.

April 22 - 28

Jane Clifford O'Brien, Ph.D., OTR/L, Graduate and Research Coordinator in the Occupational Therapy Department, recently had an instructor's manual and text published. O'Brien, J. (2007) Introduction to Occupational Therapy (3rd ed). by Hussey, S., Sabonis-Chaffe, B., & O'Brien, J., St. Louis: Mosby; Hussey, S., Sabonis-Chaffe, B., & O'Brien, J., (2007). Introduction to Occupational Therapy (3rd ed.) St. Louis: Mosby.

India Broyles, Ed.D. of COM's Department of Pediatrics, Mildred Savidge, Ph.D. of COM's Department of Family Medicine, Evelyn Schwalenberg-Leip, D.O., Director of Faculty Development, Kathy Thompson, Ph.D. of COM's Department of Biochemistry, Sarah Sprafka, Ph.D., retired faculty member in the Department of Family Medicine, and Rorie  Lee, Ph.D., MPH of the MMC Office of Medical Education, have had a paper accepted by the Journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators.  The paper titled “Stages of Concern During Curriculum Change” will be published in the June 2007 issue of the journal. 

The OT Department was well represented at the National Occupational Therapy Conference in St. Louis, April 20-23, 2007. Fifteen students and five professors attended.

Among the attendees presenting were Betsy DeBrakeleer, OT clinical fieldwork coordinator, who is one of only 29 Roster of Honor recipients in the US. She presented on “The ethical challenges in education: Tools for prevention.” Elizabeth Moyer, visiting clinical assistant professor, presented the following posters: “Franco-American generational differences: Implications for occupational therapy service delivery,” “Factors affecting violence toward occupational therapists in mental health settings,” and “Preventing road rage: Changing behavior by reducing internal factors.” Beth also presented a short-course on: “Implementing an evidence-based Parkinson’s Disease program based on motor control/motor learning.” Jane O’Brien, Ph.D., associate professor, presented a poster: “Mechanisms underlying fine-motor coordination in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder.” Regi Robnett, Ph.D., associate professor and department director, also presented a poster with one of her graduate students, Cassandra Doherty. The title of their poster was “Updated testing results on the SAFE AT HOME quick home safety screening.”

On February 3rd, Anouar Majid, Ph.D., chair of the Department of English, gave an invited talk titled “Re-Imagining the Veil” at American University’s Washington College of Law. The talk was part of a two-day conference on “Islamic Law in the West:  Theory, Doctrine, and Practice.”  The event was sponsored by the WCL Islamic Legal Forum and co-sponsored by AU’s National Muslim Law Students Association and the Center for Global Peace.

Majid’s 1998 article on the relationship between Islam and feminism, “The Politics of Feminism in Islam,” was also among a list of recommended books at a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) colloquium in September 2006 held in Paris to examine the question of feminism in Islam.  The title of the UNESCO meeting was “What is Islamic Feminism?” 

On April 9, Majid gave a talk at Mills College in California titled “The Cultural Politics of Regime Change.”   He also served as an external evaluator of the French and Francophone Studies program.

Two prestigious awards were recently attained by UNECOM students.Daniel Sheps, MS II was awarded the highly competitive Betty Ford Center - Summer Institute for Medical Students (SIMS) Fellowship. He will be on site at the Betty Ford Center in California this summer where he will work with patients and their families. Student Physician Sheps is the 3rd UNECOM student to receive this award in the past 8 years.

Robert Levine, MS I was awarded the American Federation for Aging Research Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) Fellowship. Student Physician Levine will be the first UNECOM student to conduct research at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. He will receive on-site mentorship from Linda Fried, M.D., an internationally known physician for her work in preventive heart disease for 8 weeks this summer.

Marilyn R. Gugliucci, Ph.D, Director of Geriatric Education and Research, is the UNECOM Sponsor for Daniel Sheps and UNECOM Research Mentor for Robert Levine.

April 15 - 21

3 UNECOM students received research awards at the Northeast Osteopathic Medical Education Network (NEOMEN) 6th Annual Research Forum that was held on March 30th, 2007.  First place was awarded to Adrienne Kovalsky, MSII for her research titled "Risk perception and hazard assessment of water-borne parasitic infection in a remote Nepali clinic: A Pilot Study" [JamesVaughn, Ph.D., chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Research Sponsor]; second place was awarded to Rana Wakim, MS III, for her research titled "Geriatric Training Pioneer: Medical Student Lives the Life of an Elder Nursing Home Resident for an Extended Period" [Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., director of geriatric education and research in UNECOM, Research Sponsor and Data Analyst]; and third place was awarded to Oluwaseye Alabi, MS II for his work titled "Subcortical cerebrovascular disease and treatment response in late-life depression" [Dr. Gugliucci, Research Sponsor]. Congratulations!

April 8 - April 14

Stephan Zeeman, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Life Sciences, recently presented a paper at the Aquatic Sciences Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography titled "Primary Production as Influenced by Physical Mechanisms Near the Pribilof Islands, Alaska." The results show that cross-shelf transport of nutrients, mediated by submarine canyons and tidal features enhance marine ecosystems in the region, and support the large fisheries there. The work presented there was funded by the National Science Foundation.

He also recently published a paper in the Journal of Cetacean Research and Management. The article titled, "A note on geographic and seasonal fluctuations in the isotopic composition of baleen in four North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis)" was coauthored by Erin Estrada, now at the Maine Department of Marine Resources, and James Estrada. These studies were funded as part of the joint NASA-UNE Remote Sensing Center.

Boyd Buser, D.O., interim dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine, Kenneth Johnson, D.O.,  interim associate dean of clinical affairs, and Jane Carreiro, D.O., associate professor and chair fo the Department of Ostepathic Medicine Manipulative Medicine,  recently served as experts for a World Health Organization (WHO) consultation meeting in Milan.  The meeting was organized to finalize a set of documents concerning international standards for training and practice in osteopathic medicine. There were representatives from approximately 20 countries, including the health ministries of Ba'hrain, Iran, Ghana and China. We were each invited due to our involvement with national and international organizations.   Dr. Buser is on the board of directors of  the Osteopathic International Alliance,  Dr. Johnson is the president of the American Academy of Osteopathy, and Dr. Carreiro was selected from an international slate of candidates to author the document. 

The guidelines were adopted and the WHO recommended that all member states (countries) adopt them as well.  This will help all D.O.'s who wish to practice outside the USA as well countries wishing to establish schools of osteopathic medicine.

David Mokler, Ph.D., and Peter Morgane, Ph.D. professors of pharmacology in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, have recently had a paper accepted by the journal Brain Research.  The paper titled "Stress-induced changes in extracellular dopamine and serotonin in the medial prefrontal cortex and dorsal hippocampus of prenatally malnourished rats" was done in collaboration with Janina Galler, M.D. and Olga I. Torres (CAS '03) at Boston University School of Medicine.  This work continues Drs. Mokler and Morgane's investigations of the effects of prenatal malnutrition on the brain.

Anne Summer, PA, Assistant Professor and Project Director for the College of Health Professions' Interdisciplinary Geriatric Education Program, based in the Physician Assistant Program, has been awarded the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, Part-Time Faculty Recognition for exemplary work in the teaching of gerontology, commitment to students, and maintenance of high academic standards. This recognition is bestowed upon individuals from colleges and universities across the country who teach gerontology/geriatrics part-time either as a full time or part time employee and recognizes their contribution to teaching students about aging.

Cathrine Frank, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, published an article titled  "Of Tattoos and Testaments: The Wills Act of 1837 and Rider Haggard's Mr. Meeson's Will (1888)" in Law and Literature, one of only two U.S. journals dedicated to the joint study of law and literature.

On March 23rd, Frank presented a paper on a Victorian novel in Anthony Trollope's "political" series titled "Divorce, Disestablishment, and Home Rule: Phineas Finn and the Facts of Union" at the 10th annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Professor Frank argued that contemporary political debates - in Parliament and in the novel - about the separation of Church and state parallel similar separations of married couples in the novel, none of which unions are actually dissolved in the text in spite of their lack of affection. Looking at contemporary characterizations of England's union with Ireland as a marriage, and the role Trollope's Irish politician plays in both the political and domestic plots, she argued that the novel tacitly tackles the issue of Irish Home Rule, but drops it to focus on the hero's trial for murder. The main question her paper asks is what role law plays, then, in transforming initially political questions of church versus state authority over the legitimacy of these unions into personal ones of conscience and feeling.

Matthew Anderson, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of English, presented a paper on "Law and Trauma in the Book of Job” at the 10th annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.  The paper offers a close reading of The Book of Job that combines textual insights drawn from trauma theory and the scholarship that situates The Book of Job in the context of ancient Near Eastern traditions of law. What does it mean that Job’s rhetorical complaint - i.e., his demand for justice - is articulated in the language of law, while the textual logic of the book as a whole registers the effects of a trauma? These are the questions that frame the reading, which recognizes the long tradition of interpretation of The Book of Job and, more broadly, participates in the effort to understand what is at stake when we try to “do justice” to traumatic experience in both sacred or secular texts and before the law.

 
Josh Pahigian, adjunct faculty member in the Department of English, recently celebrated the release of his fourth  book, The Red Sox in the Playoffs (McFarland Publishing).  The book provides a detailed history of each  of the Old Towne Team’s championship seasons, followed by a game-by-game  analysis of each of the team’s post-season series.  Pahagian’s next book, The Ultimate Minor League Baseball Road-Trip  (The Lyons Press) will be released this March.   It is a travel guide to the more than 150 ballparks of minor league  baseball.  Josh is currently working on  two new books, while also writing for ESPN.com’s "Sports Travel" page.  

On April 23rd, Susan McHugh, Ph.D., assistant professor of English,  will deliver a talk at UNE titled "Characters of Evolution."  In the talk, she will explore the controversy of teaching evolution in 21st-century U.S. and how this more recent story of evolution itself evolved.  To begin to answer such a question, Professor McHugh turns to literary animal narrative as a means of understanding how certain aspects of Charles Darwin's dangerous theory have become tame, while others remain so wild as to be nearly unthinkable in the popular imaginary.  McHugh's talk will use literary texts and theories to explore the representational history of evolution from devolution to revolution.  Professor David Smith, Ph.D., from the Department of Philosophy will provide a response to open up broader question.

April 1 - April 7

Ronald D Deprez, Ph.D., MPH, Executive Director, The Center for Health Policy, Planning and Research (CHPPR),  presented findings from the New London County Community Health Assessment at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center in Uncasville, Connecticut on April 5, 2007.  During the community meeting, stakeholders and community members had an opportunity to learn about the process, findings and recommendations that CHPPR has to improve the overall health of New London County, Connecticut.  See UNE in the News for media coverage.

Brian Duff, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science, will be presenting a paper titled "Parenthood and the Authoritarian Impulse" as part of a series of "Political Psychology and Behavior Workshops" sponsored by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University April 6, 2007. For more information on the workshop and a pdf of Duff's paper, visit http://www.iq.harvard.edu/NewsEvents/Seminars-WShops/PPBW/index.html


March 25 - 31

In recognition of International Women's History Month, Jan Froehlich, MS OTR/L, Department of Occupational Therapy, was interviewed by Millagro Phillips for a program called Sprit in Action on Pacifica Radio, Washington D.C. on March 27, 2007 regarding an article she wrote titled, "Steps toward dsimantling poverty for working, poor women". 

This article was published in Work: a Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation, November 4, 2005 Volume 24, pages 401-408.

March 11 - 17

Edward Bilsky, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, recently received the prestigious Keith and Eva Killam award. The award recognizes important scientific contributions by young investigators in pharmacology.

Dr. Bilsky was invited to give a keynote address at the Banff 2007 Pharmacology meeting this past week as part of the award. His presentation was titled "Novel Opioid Agonists and Antagonists: Are There Opportunities For Developing New Drugs For Old Receptors?".

The meeting included scientists and clinicians from the Western Pharmacology Society, the Pharmacology Society of Canada and the Canadian Society of Clinical Pharmacology.

Marcia Cohen, Ph.D., and Clay Graybeal, Ph.D., both of the Department of Social Work, recently had an article accepted for publication by the journal, Social Work With Groups. It is titled, "Using Solution-Focused Techniques in Mutual Aid Group Work."

Ronald R Deprez, Ph.D., MPH, Executive Director, The Center for Health Policy, Planning and Research (CHPPR), presented at the Association for Community Health Improvement’s annual conference: Spring Training for Health Champions in New Orleans, March 7-9. During his presentation Dr. Deprez discussed/presented the Rural Maine Health Improvement Demonstration Project, an ongoing program focused on improving health status of the population in the nine northern and eastern counties of Maine.  The project addresses chronic care practice issues, patient barriers and community support systems in the care improvement process.

CHPPR in partnership with the Eastern Maine Healthcare System and the Maine Network for Health have developed and implemented a system for planning and implementing evidence based chronic care improvements at health practices and in these communities-a rural population of 484,000 representing the largest geographic area east of the Mississippi. 

Richard LaRue, DPE, professor and chair in the Exercise and Sport Performance Department, was recently informed of his selection for induction into the University of Northern Iowa, School of Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services, Hall of Excellence, Class of 2007.  This award “recognizes former graduates (UNI-HPELS) who have distinguished themselves as professionals.”  The induction is scheduled for November 2007.

Dr. LaRue was just inducted (03/13/07) as a Fellow of the North American Society for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance Professionals.  Established in 1999, the North American Society (NAS) recognizes outstanding professionals from within the allied professions of health education, physical education, recreation, sport and dance in North America.  Since 1999 only 82 HPERSD Professionals in the United States and Canada have been selected for induction into this society.

For more information regarding the North American Society go to: http://www.aahperd.org/aahperd/template.cfm?template=north_american_society.html

March 4 - 10

David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, had his paper "Beyond Westermarck: Can shared mothering or maternal phenotype matching account for incest avoidance?" appear in the electronic journal Evolutionary Psychology, which can be accessed at http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/EP05202222.pdf

February 25 - March 3

Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of UNE's Department of Political Science, was one of two American scholars who were asked to submit abstracts for the first Tunisia International Meetings on the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The conference was co-sponsored by the United Nations and the Tunisian Ministry of Culture.  A hundred international schools attended the conference, in Mahida, Tunisia between February 18-24 ,2007. The conference was conducted in Arabic, English and French. Ahmida  gave a paper on "Historiography, Orality, and Agency: Lessons from Italian Colonial Libyan History." He also chaired a panel.

Marilyn R Gugliucci, Ph.D, Director, Geriatric Education and Research, UNECOM, has been elected by the members of the Association for Gerontology/Geriatrics in Higher Education (AGHE) to be the next president for the national organization. She will serve as President-Elect from 2007-08; as AGHE President from 2008-2010; and complete the four year commitment as Past-President from 2010-11.

India Broyles, Ed.D., associate professor for Medical Education in UNECOM, has been selected by the American Association for Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) to serve on a national Core Competencies Task Force, charged to review and make recommendations to the Board of Deans regarding the implementation and assessment of new national Osteopathic Medical Competencies.

February 18 - 24

Marilyn R. Gugliucci, Ph.D., Director, Geriatric Education and Research, has been named to the editorial board of the Ageing International Journal. The board chairs are Susan Levkoff, Ph.D. and Hongtu Chen, Ph.D.,  Harvard School of Medicine. Dr Chen resides in Thailand. 

Marilyn R. Gugliucci, Ph.D., UNECOM and Molly Trauten, MS Candidate, Miami University, Ohio were invited to  present their work on the "Student Living as an Institutionalized Elder" Ethnographic Research Project at the Ohio Region Administrators meeting for Life Care Centers of America (LCCA), February 16, 2007. LCCA owns and operates 250+ nursing homes across the country. Dr. Gugliucci and Ms. Trauten presented this project to the LCCA Northeast Regional meeting in October, 2006.

February 11 - 17

On March 1st, David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, will be giving a talk on "The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War" at Skidompha Library in Damariscotta.

Research by Holly Korda, M.A., Ph.D., Associate Dean for Community Programs (COM), with Penn State University colleagues David A. Wagstaff, Ph.D., and Karl McCleary, Ph.D., MPH, relating to social marketing and media efforts to increase organ donation, was accepted last month for publication in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  The article, "African Americans' Organ Donor Intentions:  Who has used which registration mode to express their intentions?" , is based on grant activities funded by the Division of Transplantation, HRSA/DHHS, and reports findings of random digit dial surveys conducted in New Jersey before, during, and after targeted media to increase donation intention and practice.  The study examines knowledge, behavior and venues for declaration of intent.  Declaration of intent to become an organ donor is a public health priority for African American communities, which face disproportionate need for transplantation due to the relatively high incidence of medical conditions that can cause permanent organ damage and a shortage of organs that are genetically similar between donor and recipient to enhance transplant success.

Norma J. Charette, Director and Amy Pednault, Conference Coordinator of the Office of Conference Services were selected by internationally acclaimed marketing consultants, Paul Horngren and Chuck Salem of Unique Venues, Inc., as the only Maine venue to exhibit and tour with them at this year’s Religious Conference and Management Association’s 35th National Meeting (RCMA) that was held in Louisville, Kentucky, January 30-February 2, 2007.

For twenty years, the Unique Venues Company has been promoting, marketing and educating national/international conference planners about the growing non-traditional venues as select properties to host their meetings. UNE’s Conference Services was among 350-plus elite venue exhibitors that were selected to showcase to thousands of religious and meeting planners from all around the country.

“We are trying to place UNE on the map as a ‘unique venue’ of choice in the Conference and Events Industry.  Adding these established and internationally known conferences and events to our portfolio of offerings at UNE will not only enhance our current curriculum but also add value, diversity and a fuller richness to the academic mission of UNE.  We are trying to help change the culture and the mindset that conferences and events are best suited on hotel properties. ‘Smart Planners’ are increasingly realizing that academic sites are best suited for their events in that universities offer smart classrooms, convenient computer lab access, and access to upscale dining and caters on site all-the-while working to suit any budget constraints any organization is facing today.”

India Broyles, Ed.D. (COM/Pediatrics), Mildred Savidge, Ph.D. (COM/Family Medicine) and Evelyn Schwalenberg-Leip, D.O., FACP (COM/Faculty Development) attended the annual PreDoctoral Education meeting of the Society of Teaching in Family Medicine on January 25-38, 2007, and presented a research paper conducted with colleages, Kathy Thompson, Ph.D. (COM/Biochemistry) and Rorie Lee, Ph.D., MPH (MMC Office of Medical Education). The paper “Formative evaluation of curriculum change: A comparison of faculty and student perspectives” will be submitted to the STFM journal Family Medicine.

Betsy DeBrakeleer,COTA/L, ROH academic fieldwork coordinator in the Occupational Therapy Department and four occupational therapy juniors are designing and implementing a "Universal Recreation" program in conjunction with Dan Letellier of the Biddeford Parks and Recreation Department.  The program is intended to provide recreational and social opportunities for Biddeford children with different abilities in grades K-8.  The eight week program begins March 3rd and will be held Saturday mornings in the Biddeford Primary School. The occupational therapy students involved are Elin Munson, Heidi Oulette, Randy McMullen and Beverly Lageux. 


February 4 - 10

Charles W. Ford, Ph.D., professor of Health Sciences, has returned to Tel Aviv to teach UNE Israeli nursing students.  He is also teaching in the new Doctor of Physical Therapy program as well as continuing in the MSED distance education program as he resides in Tel Aviv.

January 27 - February 3

Marilyn R. Gugliucci, Ph.D. has been selected to serve on the International Longevity Center- USA Professional Coalition to address Sleep Disorders and Chronic Disease in Older People. Twenty national organizations have been identified to select representatives for the coalition. The Gerontological Society of America and Association for Gerontology in Higher Education chose Dr. Gugliucci as their representative. The Coalition has 2 objectives: (1) to formulate, endorse and disseminate a set of comprehensive, evidence and expert opinion-based guidelines for the diagnosis and management of sleep disorders in older people; and (2) provide guidance and input in the development of supportive initiatives to assure adoption of the guidelines including development of online and print material for the education of physicians and patients across the country and internationally.

January 20 - 26

Joe Habraken, assistant professor in the Department of Business Administration, recently had his best selling book on computer networking, the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Networking (Fourth Edition) published by Que/Pearson Education, translated into Czech by Grada Publishing. It is now available in the Czech Republic. This is the tenth of Joe's more than 20 books on computer and information technology  to appear as a foreign translation.

David L. Smith, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, is one of 30 scholars invited to participate in a workshop on 'The Biology of Prosocial Behavior' sponsored by the Swiss Science and Technology Consulate in Boston and the University of Zurich Research Priority Program on the Foundations of Human Social Behavior.  David has also been invited to deliver a keynote address at a conference on philosophy of psychotherapy sponsored by the University of Koln, Germany.  David's "Family Values", a review of Alan Dugatkin's The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness was recently published in the on-line peer reviewed journal Evolutionary Psychology.

Anne B. Zill, Director of the Art Gallery at UNE, recently traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, January 10 - 20, to curate an exhibition of 35 contemporary works of fine art by African women artists in connection with the Vital Voices of Africa: Leadership Summit for Women & Girls.  She also participated in a Seminar Panel on the Role of Art in Political Activism.  The Summit was attended by more than 200 African women leaders from many countries on the continent as well as other world leaders, such as former president Mary Robinson of Ireland.  Vital Voices is a 10-year-old Non-Governmental Organization created by Hillary Clinton during her time as First Lady.  Zill also attended the first Vital Voices Summit in Vienna, Austria in 1997 with former UNE president, Sandra Featherman.

January 13 - 19

President Danielle N. Ripich, Ph.D., and Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., director of geriatric education and research, COM, will participate in a Legislative Policy Forum on Health Care at the Augusta Civic Center Jan. 26, 2007. President Ripich will be moderating a session on "Jobs & More Jobs: Will Maine Have Enough Health Care Workers for the Future?"  Dr. Gugliucci is a member of a panel discussing "Health and Aging: A Roadmap for Maine's Older Adults and Their Families." The forum is sponsored by the Maine Development Foundation, The Muskie School of Public Service at USM, and the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center.

Ali Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Political Science Department, has been invited to become an Advisory Board Member of the newly incorporated Maghreb Center. The Maghreb Center gathers the world's very best scholars and development practitioners devoted to the Maghreb. In addition, the center has invited Ahmida to present a talk on Libya at the Maghreb Center Inaugural Symposium, which will be held at Georgetown University on Feb. 8, 2007. The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown will host a dinner for participants on Feb. 7 and will host a lunch the following day. Ahmida has also been invited to speak at Colby College in March or April on fascist colonial policies in Libya.

John R. Langevin, Ph.D., assistant dean of students for Student Support Services, was the keynote speaker at the Old Orchard Beach School Department's Spring Wellness Workshop.  Dr. Langevin presented "Mindfulness" to approximately 120 teachers and staff on Tuesday, January 16th.

December 17 - 23

Ali Ahmida, Ph. D., chair of the Department of Political Science, recently went to Tripoli, Libya to chair an international conference on the Italian colonial concentration camps in Libya. For three years Ahmida has advocated and organized the themes for the conference. The conference hosted scholars from the USA, Italy, France  and Libya, and papers were delivered in English, Arabic and Italian languages. The Center of Libyan Studies and the Italian Historical Society of the Memory of the Republic co-sponsored the conference, which took place between December 12-14, 2006. Ahmida's keynote address was on "Folk poetry and oral history as a source for the history of the concentration camps-1929-33."  The conference established an International Committee for the study of the camps and Ahmida was invited to be a member of this committee, which will meet once a year in either Italy, Libya or the USA.

Ahmida also chaired the oral thesis's exam of his Libyan student Afaf al-Basha. Her thesis is "Libyan Historiography in the 19th Century" She passed her exam with distinction and the examining committee said the thesis is the best one in the last ten years in Libya, It was recommended for publication by the University of Zawia Press.

December 3 - 9

Susan McHugh, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of English, has been awarded the 2006 Schachterle Prize for the best published essay on Literature and Science by an untenured scholar.  The award is given by the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, whose 2007 annual conference will be held in Portland, Maine and co-sponsored by UNE along with Bowdoin and Dartmouth Colleges.  For more information about this upcoming event, contact Dr. McHugh directly at smchugh@une.edu

November 26 - December 2

Below are the faculty promotions for both campuses:

College of Health Professions: 
Dennis Leighton to associate professor, Amy Coha  to associate professor in the clinical track, Nona Spear to associate professor in the clinical track, Jane O'Brien to associate professor.

College of Arts and Sciences: 
Stine Brown to professor, Paul Burlin to professor, Richard Peterson to associate professor.
 
College of Osteopathic Medicine: 
Ian Meng to associate professor.

Sue Stableford, M.P.H., M.S.B., director of UNE's AHEC Health Literacy Center in COM's Division of Community Programs, was selected as one of 10 recipients nationally of the Pfizer-sponsored Health Literacy Visiting Professorship.  Stableford conducted her professorship November 6-8, 2006 including a two-day plain language skills workshop and a third day presenting to medical school faculty, students, and community preceptors at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.


November 19 - 25

Rev. Reuben P. Bell, DO, MS, MDiv, UNECOM associate professor of Family Medicine and Director of Medical Humanities, was invited to speak on Business Ethics at the York County Business Conference, one of the Governor's Regional Conferences on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on Friday, November 17, 2006. The title of his presentation was "Ethics is a Verb," and the lecture was followed by a workshop on process in ethical decision making. The conference was held at the York County Community College.

November 12 - 18

The November 2006 issue of Poesia News, a newsletter of the journal Poesia: A Literary Quarterly, has a short article on David Livingston Smith, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, and his book Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and The Unconscious Mind. The article titled "On Philosophers on Poets and Politicians and The Lie, The Lies and Poetry of War," is online at http://www.indianbaypress.com/index.php?pages/news_letters/news_letter_0611

November 5 - 11, 2006

On Friday, November 3, 2006, Ruth Collard, R.D.H., clinical instructor in the Dental Hygiene Program, was awarded the "Maine Dental Hygienist of the Year" by the Maine Dental Hygiene Association.

Ruth was honored for her commitment and dedication to the dental hygiene profession.  Over the years, Ruth has held many CPR training sessions, as well as served as liaison between the UNE Dental Hygiene Program and the Maine Dental Hygiene Association. 

In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Ruth has served as the advisor to the Student American Dental Hygiene Association chapter here at UNE for many years. 

Ruth serves as a role model and mentor to both students and alumni of the Dental Hygiene Program. 


Michael Beaudoin, Ed.D., professor of education, served as lead panelist at a session on dialogue in online courses and the impact of 'invisible' instructors on the participation of students at the European Distance E-learning Network research workshop in Barcelona. He also facilitated a discussion on distance education ethics. The event brought together 175 scholars worldwide to share their recent research and writing in the field of distance education.

The College of Health Professions' Interdisciplinary Geriatric Education Program (IGEP), housed in the Physician Assistant program, was highlighted at the recent American Public Health Association's meeting in Boston.  Interdisciplinary team members Anne Summer, RN, PA; Carl Toney, PA; Elisabeth Rudenberg, DO, MSPH; Nancy MacRae, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA; and Joseph Wolfberg, MS participated in a roundtable presentation on the IGEP program. The theme of their presentation was "Turf, team and town: Learning an interdisciplinary team approach to relationship-centered care for the elderly."

Emily Rines, MPH, CHES, director of the Coastal Healthy Communities Coalition, Division of Community Programs, UNECOM, presented a session on "Strategies in Obesity Prevention for Children" at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Boston, MA on November 6, 2006. Emily presented on the Starting Young Obesity Project, which is a collaborative project with Coastal Healthy Communities Coalition, the Maine Harvard Prevention Research Center and York County Head Start.

October 29 - November 4, 2006

India Broyles, Ed.D., College of Osteopathic Medicine, and her colleagues from Maine Medical Center Department of Family Practice - Julie Schirmer LCSW, Cynthia Cartwright RN M.S.Ed., Ann Skelton M.D., Christina Holt M.D., and Rebecca Hitchcock NP-C - presented a seminar session “A Family Residency Book Group:  Developing Reflective Practice and Building Community” at the annual meeting of the North East Society for Teaching in Family Medicine in Danvers, Mass., Oct. 27, 2006

Emily Rines, MPH, CHES, director of the Coastal Healthy Communities Coalition located in the Division of Community Programs at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, recently received the American Cancer Society Cancer Control Life Saver Award. Emily was given the award at the annual volunteer recognition dinner on October 24th. Emily has been an American Cancer Society volunteer both in Maine and South Carolina for close to 10 years. This award is presented to outstanding volunteers in Advocacy, Cancer Control, Prevention and Detection.

Emily was selected last spring to be a State of Maine American Cancer Society (ACS) Ambassador and as a result of this role received this award. As a State of Maine Ambassador Emily worked along side 10 other ACS Ambassadors to build relationships with Maine's congressional delegation to advocate on behalf of cancer prevention, treatment and control issues. In September ACS brought the ambassadors to Washington DC for the Celebration on the Hill event, where in a single day, every congressional district across the country was visited by an ACS Ambassador. Emily, and the team of other ACS volunteers, met with the four members of the Maine delegation and were successful in getting them to sign onto the Congressional Cancer Promise and garnered support for the Breast and Cervical Cancer Program Reauthorization Act.

This is Emily's second time as an American Cancer Society State of Maine Ambassador. She was selected through a competitive application process and has agreed to serve an 18-month commitment with the Cancer Society in the capacity of a grassroots advocate working on local, state and national policy agendas.

October 22 - 28

I am pleased to announce that Holly Korda, M.A., Ph.D., has accepted the position of associate dean of community programs, part of the College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Korda replaces Meredith Tipton, Ph.D., who developed and directed our successful graduate public health programs. In addition to overseeing our MPH programs, Dr. Korda is also responsible for the Coastal Community Healthy Coalitions, the AHEC, the Health Literacy Center and the Geriatric Education Center.
 
A Maine native, Dr. Korda comes to UNE from Washington, D.C. with more than 25 years of experience in the design, development and evaluation of public health programs, policies and systems of care, with particular expertise in the development of public-private partnerships and campaigns at the local, state and national levels.  She has extensive experience with U.S. Public Health Serviceprograms and agencies and has served as a senior executive and advisor on a range of healthcare issues in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.  Dr. Korda received her Ph.D. in health services research at Tufts University and looks forward to working with students and faculty in UNE's Graduate Public Health Programs. Dr. Korda began her duties on Monday, October 23, 2006.  Her office is located in room 120 of Stella Maris Hall and her extension is 2353.  Please feel free to stop by and welcome her to the University Community.

- Boyd Buser, UNECOM dean and vice president for health services (interim)

Matt Haas, assistant vice president of Campus Services, was invited to speak at the 2006 NACAS (National Association  of College Auxiliary Services) National Conference in San Diego, Calif. on October 15, 2006.  The presentation, "A Comprehensive Service Organization for Higher Education - The Department of Campus Services" was presented during the Showcase of Innovations.

Please welcome Barbara Norton and Laurie-Ann Prescott to the Dental Hygiene Program.  Barbara will serve as our half-time administrative assistant and can be reached at extension 4900.  Laurie-Ann will serve as Office Manager and can be reached at extension 4277. 

India Broyles, Ed.D, UNECOM associate professor for medical education, presented a session on “The Ethics of Care:  Implications for Curriculum and Teaching” at the annual meeting of the American Association for Curriculum and Teaching in Charlotte, NC, October 12, 2006.  Dr. Broyles serves on the Executive Council for the association and on its Editorial Board for the journal "Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue".

 

October 15-21

Paul Burlin, Ph.D., interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will speak on "Imperial Maine and Hawai’i," Tuesday, Oct. 24, 12:00 p.m. at the Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland. The discussion will be an exploration of the strong and suggestive connections between Maine and Hawaii in the nineteenth century. Drawing on his new book, Imperial Maine and Hawai'i, Interpretative Essays in the History of Nineteenth-Century American Expansion (Lexington Books 2006), Burlin will examine the surprising role that Maine played in the United States’ imperial expansion into the Pacific. This program is free and open to the public. RSVP requested but not required. For more information, visit www.mainehistory.org

Rev. Reuben P. Bell, DO, MS, MDiv, UNECOM associate professor of Family Medicine and Director of Medical Humanities, was invited to speak at the Palliative Care CME program at the American Osteopathic Association's 2006 National Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada on Monday, October 16, 2006. His presentation, "Death Be Not Proud: The Role of Spirituality in Palliative Care," was part of the half-day seminar on end-of-life care. He also participated in an interactive panel discussion with the other invited speakers and the osteopathic physicians in attendance.


October 8 - 14

An interview withDavid Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, will be published in the Brazilian weekly magazine Veja on Saturday.  With a circulation of over 1,300,000, Veja is the 4th largest weekly magazine in the world.

Please join us in extending a very warm welcome to Peggy Warden (formerly from the Department of Physical Therapy) to Enrollment Services on the Westbrook College Campus.

Peggy has accepted the position of Associate Director of Graduate Admissions, WCC. If you have questions regarding Graduate Admissions for our College of Health Professions programs, Peggy may be reached at ext. 4225 or via email at pwarden@une.edu.

October 1 - 7

John Lemons, Ph.D., professor of Biology and Environmental Science in the Department of Environmental Studies, is a coauthor of a comprehensive report on the "Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change." A preliminary draft of the report will be published and released at the forthcoming UNFCCC COP 12 meeting 2006 November 12 in Nairobi, Kenya. The current draft of the report includes input from a large contingent of Brazilian scientists and policy makers during a meeting in early September in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in which Lemons participated. Previously, Lemons was the lead author on a recent article published in the journal "Climate Policy" which summarized some of the main points of the forthcoming report. The report is available from Lemons in pdf format for individuals interested in climate change, and the interrelationships between science, policy and ethics.

Elizabeth De Wolfe, Ph.D., chair and associate professor in the Department of History, and Co-Director of Women's Studies, was recently elected to the post of Vice-President of the Communal Studies Association, a scholarly organization dedicated to the study of intentional communities past and present. At the recent CSA conference in Marshall, California (the site of the former Synanon community), Dr. De Wolfe organized and led a panel on the topic of "Writing Communal History." Authors of award-winning books on communal history discussed the opportunities and challenges of writing in this field. Dr. De Wolfe discussed her work, Shaking the Faith, which received the Communal Studies Association Outstanding Book Award in 2003.

John Lemons, Ph.D., professor of Biology and Environmental Science in the Department of Environmental Studies, recently had a short commentary article titled "Desert Science and Policy" published online by "SciDev.Net," which is supported and founded by AAAS's "Science," by the UK Royal Academy of Sciences, by "Nature" and by the Third World Academy of Sciences. "SciDev.Net" has a science and policy focus on Southern nations. Dr. Lemons also serves on the advisory board for the deserts section of SciDev.Net (www.scidev.net/desertscience).

On behalf of the faculty, staff and students in the Department of Physical Therapy, I would like to extend a sincere thank you to Peggy Warden for her invaluable assistance to the Department over the past few years.  Please join us in wishing Peggy the best of success in her new role as Associate Director of Graduate Admissions.  We know she will become an equally invaluable addition to their staff.

Regards,

Michael R. Sheldon, PT, MS
Associate Professor and Program Director
Department of Physical Therapy

John Lemons, Ph.D., professor of Biology and Environmental Science in the Department of Environmental Studies, has had an invited book chapter titled "Nature Diminished or Nature Managed: Applying Rolston's Environmental Ethics in National Parks" published in Nature, Value, Duty: Life on Earth With Holmes Rolston, III, (pgs. 203–220) by Springer (2006) and edited by Christopher J. Preston and Wayne Ouderkirk. Rolston is considered by many to be the "founder" of environmental ethics and one of the most prolific contributors to the development of the field. The contributors to the book critically analyze Rolston's environmental ethics developed over four decades of his professional life. In his chapter, Dr. Lemons analyzes whether, and to what extent, Rolston's ethics and the science he uses can help foster practical decision and policy making in public lands such as national parks.


September 24 - 30

Ali Ahmida, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, was invited to contribute to the five-volume reference work New Encyclopedia of Africa, Second Edition.  Intended for college, high school and public libraries, and will be part of Scribner's esteemed series of reference works on world history, which includes the Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (2002) and the Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (1995).

Comprising more than 1,200 articles on many aspects of African cultures, societies, and history, this new edition of the encyclopedia seeks to break down the artificial and misleading distinctions between Africanist studies and conventional academic disciplines. NEA will expand the coverage of the first edition to include North Africa and to present Africa in relation to its place in the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

September 17 - 23

Jennifer Tuttle, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of English, recently delivered a paper titled "Unsettled Borders and Nervous Bodies:  Citizenship and Exclusion in Sui Sin Far's Chinese California" at the New England American Studies Association's annual conference in Portland, September 15-16.

September 3 - 9

Jennifer Tuttle, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of English, is now co-editor of Legacy:  A Journal of American Women Writers, a major peer-reviewed journal that publishes essays on American women writers, texts and material culture from the 17th through the mid-20th centuries.

Diana Crowell, Ph.D. will serve in the interim position of Director of Nursing and HSM beginning September 5, 2006. Diana Crowell  comes to UNE with a wealth of experience in practice and administration. She has taught at the University of New Hampshire and the University of Connecticut. Dr. Crowell's specialty is psychiatric-mental health nursing.

Reuben P. Bell, DO, MS, MDiv, UNECOM associate professor of Family Medicine and Director of Medical Humanities, was invited to speak at the 9th International Symposium on Traditional Osteopathy, sponsored by the Canadian College of Osteopathy, Toronto, August 24-28. The symposium topic was “Spirituality in Osteopathy,” and the title of his presentation was “Jacob’s Ladder: An Osteopathic Model of the Spiritual-Natural Human.” Dr. Bell also served as President of CCO’s International Faculty Jury for thesis presentations by graduating CCO students. 

The Office of Graduate Medical Education would like to welcome Cathy Lamirande, Staff Assistant & Rotations Scheduling.  Cathy previously was in Student Activities at the UC Campus Center as Administrative Assistant.  Her office is located in the basement of the Petts Health Center.


August 27 - September 2

"Natural Born Liars," an essay by David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies,  has been included in the 8th edition of the English composition textbook Fields of Reading: Motives for Writing (Ed. Comley, N. R. et al. New York: Bedford, Freeman & Worth ) Cynthia Bates, of the University of California, Davis, writes “Fields of Reading offers an excellent range of selections in each of the disciplines — classic or contemporary, they demonstrate the breadth of academic essay writing.”

The Office of Medical Education would like you to welcome Parise Skoczenski as the new Assistant to the Director of Graduate Medical Education. You can reach Parise at extension 2454.


August 19 - 26

Charles W. Ford, Ph.D., Professor of Health Sciences spoke to the River Hills Community Men's Group on August 3, 2006, Lake Wylie, S.C..  The subject of his address was "Israel: Past, Present, and Future."

August 12 - 18

An interview with David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, will be the main article in the next issue of the Columbian medical newsletter Ámbito Médico.  David's reviews of Francis Collins' The Language of God and Steven Kotler's West of Jesus have also been published in the current issue of Seed magazine.

June 30 - July 7

Marilyn R. Gugliucci, Ph.D, was voted in as vice president for the Maine Gerontological Society. Lenard Kaye, MSW, Ph.D. from the UMAINE Center of Aging is the president, offering a continued opportunity for Dr Gugliucci and Dr. Kaye to work together on statewide geriatric and gerontology issues. In her past role with the MGS, Dr Gugliucci wrote the by-laws for a student chapter and implemented the new chapter this year - she will also assume the role of chair of the student chapter committee. Her vice presidency began July 1 2006 and ends in 2008.

Marilyn R. Gugliucci, Ph.D presented one keynote and one workshop at the 16th Annual Rural Maine Geriatric Conference held in Bar Harbor in June 2006. Her keynote address titled, "Old Before Her Time: Medical Student Experience Living the Life of an Elder Nursing Home Resident," presented the outcomes of a UNECOM medical student residing in a nursing home for 2 weeks as an elder resident. This program is being continued based on its success, making UNECOM the first medical school in the nation to run such a program - teaching student physicians what it is like to be a patient in addition to being a good physician. The workshop titled "The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Aging: Guidance from the Heart" was based on Dr. Gugliucci's qualitative research outcomes from older adults regarding their thoughts and feelings of the role of religion and/or spirituality in the aging process.

Matt Haas, assistant vice president of campus services, presented at the 2006 NACAS East (National Association  of College Auxiliary Services) Regional Conference on June 20th, 2006.  The presentation on "A Comprehensive Service Organization for Higher Education- The Department of Campus Services" was also selected for the Showcase of Innovations during the 2006 NACAS National Conference in San Diego, CA coming in October.

May 27 - June 2

Jacklyn D. Kieffer, MS IV, published an article entitled "Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match" in the May issue of The D.O. The article looks at the process and options of choosing a residency or internship program. It also provides some advice on things a medical student can do to make the match process easier.

May 20-26, 2006

David Livingstone Smith's, Ph.D., article "In Praise of self-deception" has appeared in the online journal Entelechy: Mind and Culture http://www.entelechyjournal.com

Molly Trauten, a 25 year-old Miami University of Ohio graduate gerontology student, is participating in an internship that features UNECOM and will change the course of her life and professional career. Molly is living as an elder resident in Maine nursing homes for 10 weeks this summer. Her mentor, Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., through the UNECOM Department of Family Medicine, has arranged four different living experiences for her throughout this summer. Currently she is living at Cedar Ridge Nursing Home in Skowhegan for two weeks. She will also be living at Atlantic Heights Seal Rock Nursing Home (two weeks) and then at two UNECOM Mature Care sites: St Andre's Health Care Facility (four weeks) and Southridge Living Cente (two weeks) both in Biddeford.

Molly is conducting ethnographic research in which the researcher tries to understand the behaviour, values and meanings of any given culture (in this case, institutionalized elders) through immersion in their culture. Throughout the experience she is treated like an older adult resident by the staff - she has already experienced being fed pureed food, received a whirlpool bath and found dependence and waiting to be two very challenging issues.

UNECOM is the first to place students in nursing homes to live as residents. Rana Wakim, MS I, was the first student last year and after two weeks made the decision to become a geriatrician. Overall, the department's goal is too expand health professions students' learning in order to increase the prospects for better care models for elders in the future. Dr Gugliucci and Molly will be presenting their research at the Maine Rural Geriatric Conference and the National Association for Gerontology in Higher Education Annual Meeting. 

May 13-19, 2006

Joy Guerrieri-Bang, UNECOM MS II, received the 2006 American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Student Researcher Award at the AGS Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, May 6th, 2006 for her research titled: "Correlation of at-risk Drinking and Disability in Older Adults." This award honors original research that demonstrates scientific merit and relevance to the field of geriatric medicine. Student Physician Guerrieri-Bang was also one of two students nationwide to be invited to present their research at the AGS President's Poster Session. Joy was accompanied to the meeting by her research mentor Marilyn R. Gugliucci, Ph.D. 

David Prichard, Ph.D., professor in the School of Social Work, has had an article accepted for publication in the German journal Widersprueche (Contradictions).  The article, titled "Unheard Voices: U.S. Citizen Opposition to the War in Iraq," will be translated into German and is scheduled to appear in issue 101 in Fall 2006. 


May 5-12, 2006

Jane O'Brien, Ph.D., OTR/L, assistant professor in occupational therapy, and Julie Savoyski, M.S., OTR/L, UNE graduate, presented a workshop at the National American Occupational Therapy Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina on "The application of Motor control/motor learning concepts to pediatric OT practice" on April 27th. 

Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., was invited to submit an article on the presidential symposium she presented with her colleagues at the Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting. The article has been published as follows:
Menne, H., Gugliucci, M. & Howe, J (2006) "Geriatric Interdisciplinary Teams: Assessing Educational and Clinical Impacts." Gerontology News, The Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC, p 10.

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