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UMaine News – Thursday, November 19, 2009
FORMER FACULTY MEMBER SHARON JACKIW PASSES Former faculty member Sharon Jackiw, 70, of Milford, who taught German and linguistics at UMaine and served as associate director of Research and Sponsored Programs, died Nov. 13. Active in the university community as an enthusiastic supporter of women’s issues and the Women in the Curriculum Program, Jackiw is remembered for her philanthropic and volunteer work, in addition to her interest in the arts and in nature. An obituary in the Bangor Daily News on Monday has additional details about Jackiw’s life here.
UMAINE BUSINESS SCHOOL NAMED AMONG THE BEST The Maine Business School in the College of Business, Public Policy and Health has been named among the top 700 business schools in the world by Eduniversal, a Paris-based international educational consulting organization that rated more than 20,000 institutions. A news release has additional details here.
FERNANDEZ NAMED TO EPA ADVISORY COUNCIL U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has appointed UMaine soil science professor Ivan Fernandez to a three-year term on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance. The council provides advice, information and recommendations on technical and economic aspects of analysis and reports prepared by the EPA, and the impacts of the Clean Air Compliance Act on public health, economy and environment in the United States. The council meets in Washington, D.C. and by teleconference. Fernandez is a former member of the EPA Science Advisory Board’s Ecological Processes and Effects Committee.
FOSTER INNOVATION CENTER SMALL BUSINESS SERIES The Bion and Dorain Foster Student Innovation Center continues its small business presentation series Tuesday, Dec. 1 from 6-7:30 p.m., with “Business Planning” by Jason Harkins of the Maine Business School faculty. This free and public presentation will cover learning how to select and create new venture teams, and recognizing the right and wrong ways to increase or decrease a venture team.
UMaine in the News
AEWC INCLUDED IN BUOYS CONSTRUCTION STORY The Bangor Daily News carried an article in today’s edition about the U.S. Coast Guard considering new, lighter construction materials for saltwater navigational buoys, and consulting UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center on the feasibility.
ARTICLE DISCUSSES UMAINE’S GOMOOS BUOY FUNDING An article in today’s Bangor Daily News about funding challenges facing the Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS), whose buoys relay important oceanic conditions for boaters and fishing fleets from the Gulf of Maine, included an interview with UMaine oceanography professor Neil Pettigrew, chief scientist for the buoy project.
