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JANET Z. BURSON, associate professor of nutrition, MARIANNE RODGERS, chair and associate professor of nursing, and JANE KIRSCHLING, dean, College of Nursing and Health Professions, published an article in Nursing Leadership Forum (Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 19-22), on "Developing an Accelerated BSN Program: One CollegeÕs Experience."

CHARLES S. COLGAN, professor of public policy and management and associate director of the Center for Business and Economic Research, Muskie School, was co-principal of a national team of researchers that received an Excellence in Partnering Award by the National Ocean Partnership Program for investigation of the economic benefits of ocean observing systems in the U.S. The award was presented at the White House on February 28.

ANNIE FINCH, director of the Stonecoast M.F.A. in Creative Writing, had her new book, "The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self" recently published as part of the Poets on Poetry Series (University of Michigan Press). Finch will be reading excerpts from the book at the Vancouver Public Library in Vancouver, B.C., during the March 30-April 2 Associated Writers Conference in Vancouver, where she will also appear on two panels and give a book signing for her book of poetry, "Calendars."

WILLIAM F. GAYTON, chair and professor of psychology, was invited to be contributing author for the new University of Maine online coach training course developed by the Maine Center for Coaching and Sport, to educate future coaches in K-12 schools. His unit is titled "Communication and Motivation."

LIN LISBERGER, lecturer in art, will be presenting sculpture at 3fish Gallery, 377 Cumberland Ave., Portland, April 1-30. The series in the exhibit are "Expressive Figures," "Sounding Boards," and "Torture Preserved." Her work will also be part of the Portland campus Area Gallery exhibit, "War Flowers: From Swords to Plowshares."

LYDIA SAVAGE, associate professor of geography, will present "Putting Women in Their Place(s): Feminist Geographers Mapping Gender," at the Sarah Lawrence Women's History spring lecture series on Thursday, April 28.

MARK T. SWANSON, professor of geography, presented on "Digital Mapping in a New Pseudotachylyte Locality from the Harbor Island Fault Zone, Muscongus Bay, Maine," at 40th annual meeting of the Northeastern Section of The Geological Society of America held March 14-16 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

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