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UMaine News - Wednesday, July 2, 2008
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Belfast Conference to Explore Nuclear
Proliferation Pathways |
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More than 20 international experts will be
in Belfast Thursday July 17 and Friday July 18 to
participate in a conference examining the factors that
could lead to the spread of nuclear weapons in various
hot spots around the world. The University of Maine's
School of Policy and International Affairs (SPIA) and the
Naval Postgraduate School will host the conference,
"Tomorrow's Proliferation Pathways: Weak States, Rogues
and Non-States" at UMaine's Hutchinson Center. The
Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Advanced Systems
Concepts Office is the conference sponsor. Sessions are
scheduled for 8 a.m.-5 p.m. each day.
A conference agenda is online here.
A news advisory with more details about the conference is
online here. |
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Sarah McPartland-Good Named to Foundation Post |
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Amos Orcutt, president/CEO of the
University of Maine Foundation, has announced the
promotion of Sarah McPartland-Good to director of planned
giving. She will have the primary responsibility of
developing and coordinating the Foundation’s
comprehensive gift planning program. McPartland-Good, who
is an attorney, joined the Foundation in 1998 as a
planned giving officer after working in the private
practice of law in Bangor. She earned a communications
degree from the University of Southern Maine and a law
degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center. "The Foundation’s
future looks very bright because of its incredible level
of donor service, stewardship and accountability and I
look forward to working with our many alumni and friends
to create even more opportunities for students,"
McPartland-Good said.
A news release with more is here. |
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Grad Student Poster Wins Award |
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Julie-Ann Scott's Poster entitled
"Subversive Bodies' Extraordinary Stories: A Performance
of Identity Analysis of Physically Disabled Professionals
Personal Narratives" received an award for the top poster
at the Society for Disability Studies (SDS)annual
conference in New York City. SDS is an international
conference drawing disability studies scholars from
around the world. Research featured in the poster
reception included scholars from across different fields
and ranged from graduate students to faculty members. For
more information on SDS visit
http://www.disstudies.org/. Julie-Ann Scott is a
UMaine IPhD student who is also the Graduate Center
Coordinator, the Graduate Student Government Grants
Officer, and a Chase Distinguished Research Assistant. |
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