Students in the Spotlight
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Amanda Shearin, Ecology and Environmental Science Doctoral Student Featured in MPBN's Maine Watch
Posted October 1, 2010
Amanda Shearin, a doctoral student in the Ecology and Environmental Science program has had her research of fishless lakes featured in the Maine Public Broadcasting Network's (MPBN) Maine Watch. For the full video please visit the MPBN website.
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Master of Science Nursing Alumna, Miki MacDonald at White House Healthcare Meeting
Posted 9/29/2010
Margaret "Miki" Macdonald, a 1998 Master of Science in Nursing graduate was at the White House Tuesday, September 28, to meet with First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Mary Wakefield, the administrator of the Health Resources Service Administration, to talk about the Affordable Care Act.
Macdonald, who is the Maine representative to the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, will participate in a 2 p.m. conference call with other nurse practitioners to discuss how nurses can help educate their patients about the new protections and benefits under ACA. Macdonald was just one of two nurse practitioners from across the country invited to the White House.
The past president of the Maine Nurse Practitioners Association, Macdonald is a family nurse practitioner at St. Joseph Internal Medicine in Bangor.
More details are in a Wednesday Bangor Daily News story.
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Chilean graduate student star of Knowledge Transfer Alliance story
A WLBZ news report highlights the work of the UMaine School of Economics Knowledge Transfer Alliance. That initiative brings UMaine resources to businesses working to get established or to expand. The news story describes the efforts of UMaine graduate student Bernardita Silva, working with a Passadumkeag business that involves the manufacture of landing nets made from maple, ash, cherry and other wood.
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Graduate Student leads research in New Zealand, published in Nature Geoscience
The NZ Resources Web site in New Zealand carries a story about new research led by doctoral student Aaron Putnam of the UMaine Climate Change Institute. The research, reported in the journal "Nature Geoscience," resolves long-standing questions about conditions that affected New Zealand glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age.
