Students in the Spotlight
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Robert "BJ" Kitchin, doctoral student in Interdisciplinary Studies, recently named recipient of American Public Health Association’s DisAbility Forum Student Member Award
Posted February 14, 2008
Robert "BJ" Kitchin, a doctoral student in Interdisciplinary Studies and a Teaching Assistant in Disability Studies, was recently named the recipient of the American Public Health Association’s DisAbility Forum Student Member Award. The award is presented each year to one college student in the United States who has contributed promising work to advance the health and quality of life of people with disabilities. The American Public Health Association is one of the nation’s largest public health associations. "BJ is a role model and ambassador who puts disability studies in the forefront of student’s minds," says Elizabeth DePoy, coordinator of interdisciplinary disability studies at the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies.
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Patrick Devanney, master's student in Higher Education, chosen for National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Conference Committee Internship
Posted February 14, 2008
Patrick Devanney, currently a Master of Education student in Higher Education and Vice-President of UMaine's Graduate Student Government, was chosen as one of three graduate students for the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Region I Conference Committee Internship for the conference in Burlington, VT. Patrick will also sit on a panel for undergraduate students interested in pursuing a career in Student Affairs.
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Emily Notch, doctoral student in Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, profiled in latest issue of UMaine Today for her research on environmental estrogen
Posted February 14, 2008
Emily Notch, a doctoral student in Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, was profiled in the latest issue of UMaine Today for her research on environmental estrogen. Notch is a recent recipient of a prestigious STAR Fellowship from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The full UMaine Today article is available HERE.
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Four UMaine graduate students selected as winners of the annual Dow, Griffee, and Clements Graduate Student Competition
Posted February 14, 2008
Four UMaine graduate students were recently selected as winners of the annual Dow, Griffee, and Clements Graduate Student Competition, staged each year by UMaine's Maine Agriculture and Forest Experiment Station:
- Lee Beers, Masters student in Botany & Plant Pathology, "Comparative analysis of the low temperature transcriptomes of Solanum tuberosum and Solanum commersonii"
- Sean Blomquist, doctoral student in Wildlife Ecology, "Relative fitness and behavioral compensation of amphibians in a managed forest"
- Philip Hofmeyer, doctoral student in Forest Resources, "Ecology and silviculture of northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis L.) in Maine"
- Erin Simons, doctoral student in Wildlife Ecology, "Spatial and temporal dynamics of habitat supply for Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) and American Martens (Martes americana) on Commercial Forest lands in Maine"
