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Posted March 13, 2012
We are currently accepting applications for the 2012 Gulf of Mexico Voyage on a rolling basis until all the legs of the voyage are filled. We anticipate this year’s voyage starting on May 22, 2012.
Posted March 8, 2012
Associate Professor of Philosophy Kate Wininger will be presenting a paper at the 43rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) being held March 15-18, 2012, in Rochester, NY.
Posted March 8, 2012
Associate Professor of English Lucinda Cole will be presenting at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, being held March 22-24, 2012, in San Antonio, Texas.
Posted March 2, 2012
University of Southern Maine is proud to be a part of The Inaugural Conference of the United Arab Emirates' Gender and Women's Studies Consortium entitled "Gender and Women's Studies in the Arab Region."
Posted January 23, 2012
The Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) project at the University
of Southern Maine, directed by AMS Associate Professor S. Monroe Duboise and funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was featured in the January 19, 2012 edition of the Gorham Times.
Posted January 13, 2012
Ellen McCann Labbe, a graduate student in the USM Biological Sciences Department, is researching the population genetics of river herring in the Gulf of Maine. She hopes to shed light on how landscape features and human activity have shaped the genetic differentiation between alewives in Maine watersheds.
Posted January 11, 2012
Dr. Louis F. Gainey, Jr.'s article "The Effects of Temperature, Season, and Nitric Oxide on Clearance Rates in Isolated Gills of the Heterodont Clams Mercenaria mercenaria and Arctica islandia," was published in the December 2011 Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology (Vol. 409, pp. 160-165).
Posted December 21, 2011
David Gagne, a student in the computer science program, mentored by USM Professor Clare Bates Congdon, was recently awarded Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) 2012 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award.
Posted December 21, 2011
LAC Leadership Studies Professor and Research Council co-chair, Liz Turesky focuses her research on "Women in Leadership," an organizational behavior and development perspective about continuous improvement practices in the public and private sectors and engaged student learning pedagogy, particularly Kolb’s experiential learning model applied to coaching, career development, leadership development, and student learning about leadership. What's really exciting about her research is the way in which she studies the multicultural perspective of women leaders.
Posted December 21, 2011
In 2010/2011, Cutler Institute research associates Helen Ward and Barbara Wirth developed a DVD and training curriculum demonstrating how to address the developmental needs of young children in the welfare system. Both pieces are designed so that other states can customize with state-specific information. Already, these materials have attracted the attention of policymakers at the national level who are interested in disseminating training in other states.
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