Students in the Spotlight

  • Earth Sciences Alumna Awarded a European Mineralogical Union Poster Prize

    Posted December 8, 2010

    Eva Wadoski, a Master of Science in Earth Sciences Alumna, was awarded a European Mineralogical Union (EMU) Poster Prize for her poster "Stepwise dehydration of goosecreekite: a structural study" co-authored with Thomas Armbruster, Biljana Lazic and Martin Fisch at the 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Budapest, Hungary; August 21-27, 2010. The EMU has been awarding Poster Prizes at relevant international conferences to young scientists working in the mineralogical sciences and related disciplines. Wadoski was one of the three selected to receive the award in Budapest.

    The poster reported a portion of Wadoski’s doctoral thesis research at the Mineralogical Crystallography Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland. Her Master of Science thesis research at the University of Maine was a mineralogical study of tourmaline and other borosilicate minerals in pegmatites from the Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica.
     

  • Graduate Student, Tom Ordelt Featured in Local TV Story

    Posted November 30, 2010

    A Monday WABI television story described a high-tech research project underway in UMaine's Dept. of Kinesiology and Physical Education.  Master of Education in Kinesiology and Physical Education student Tom Ordelt, working with engineers and coaches, is using computer modeling techniques to assess the effectiveness of certain exercises on athletic performance.  The story also includes interviews with UMaine track coach Dave Cusano and with Black Bear track star Jesse Lebreck.

  • Doctoral Student and House of Representatives State Rep. Emily Cain, Elected Minority Leader of the Maine House of Representatives

    Posted November 19, 2010

    Doctoral Student elected minority leader in Maine House of Representatives State Rep. Emily Cain, whose legislative district includes UMaine's Orono property, has been elected minority leader of the Maine House of Representatives.  Cain, who is a UMaine graduate, is pursuing a Ph.D. in Higher Education Leadership at UMaine. She also serves as coordinator of advancement in the Honors College.  A Maine Today Media (Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Central Maine Morning Sentinel) story includes more details about the recent vote by the Democratic House caucus.

     

     

    Maine House of Representatives State Rep. Emily Cain
    is seated at right.

  • Recent Alum, Dr. Jeff Marsh Discovered New Mineral

    Posted November 16, 2010

    Ph.D. in Earth Sciences Alum, Dr. Jeffrey Marsh along with Dr. Ed Grew with the Department of Earth Sciences and other researchers have been included in the October issue of the Canadian Mineralogist for Marsh's discovery of a new mineral, a species of garnet named “menzerite-(Y)” in honor of the German crystallographer Georg Menzer (1897-1989), in 2009.

    Marsh, now a faculty fellow at Colby College, is the first student in UMaine history to discover a new mineral species that is new to science.  His research was funded by the National Science Foundation and the University of Maine Doctoral Research Fellowship.  For more information, please click here.

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