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Posted October 22, 2012
Dr. Stephen Pelsue, Associate Professor of Applied Medical Sciences, and CSTH Associate Dean, has been awarded $47,000 to support his commercialization project Pilot Project to Develop a Biomarker for Inflammation and Cancer.
Posted October 21, 2012
The new Direct Service Worker Training Program will improve the mobility of Maine’s three most popular direct service positions (Personal Support Specialists, Mental Health Rehabilitation Technicians, and Direct Service Professionals) and will ultimately serve as the foundation for a comprehensive system of training and certification.
Posted October 18, 2012
Jack Kartez, Professor of Community Planning & Development in the Muskie School of Public Service, is part of a project team that just received a National Science Foundation four-year grant, through the NSF’s Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES) – Research Coordination Networks (RCN) program.
Posted October 3, 2012
USM received a grant from the NSF STEM Scholarship Program to support deserving Maine students who want to study the sciences, technology, engineering or math. Some 19 students enrolled this fall at USM thanks to the scholarships the program provided, which awarded up to $5,000 per year per student.
Posted October 3, 2012
A new student research journal, dedicated primarily to highlighting the accomplishments of the numerous students engaged in research, scholarship and creative activity from all academic fields at USM, is now ready to receive submissions from current USM students.
Posted September 14, 2012
Dr. Ah-Kau Ng, a Professor of Immunology in the USM Department of Applied Medical Sciences, will be receiving support for the commercialization of his project "Monoclonal Antibodies to C-Terminal Domains of Osteopontin, a potential cancer biomarker, a tissue development factor, and an early T lymphocyte activation marker."
Posted August 16, 2012
What is that on top of that car? This is the question many in Portland have asked themselves when they see a Toyota Yaris with a ball of hay on top of it. Who owns this perfectly round ball of hay? None other than USM Professor of Sculpture Michael Shaughnessy.
Posted July 16, 2012
AMS Associate Professor Monroe Duboise has been appointed to the 2012-13 University of Maine System Trustee Professorship, a position devoted exclusively to honor and support faculty members who are already making noteworthy contribution to academic excellence in their campus.
Posted June 15, 2012
The National Institute of Health awarded a grant to USM for the support of Dr. Hong Xie in her research project The Synergistic Effect and Mechanism of Arsenic on Chromium (VI). The Academic Research Enhancement Award, worth over $400,000, will fund her work for the next three years.
Posted June 15, 2012
Professor of Criminology and Legal Studies Piers Beirne was named the third recipient of the USM Provost Research Fellowship. His research combines the unlikely fields of criminology, human-animal studies and art history, as he strives to answer questions about the work of 18th-century English artist William Hogarth and his 1751 prints, “The Four Stages of Cruelty.”
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