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UMaine News - Wednesday, July 1, 2009


Dana-Sacco Named Hanley Center Fellow
Gail Dana-Sacco, Ph.D, director of the University of Maine's Wabanaki Center, has been selected as a fellow in the 2009 Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership program, a mentorship program established to identify and train emerging leaders in the field of health across the state. The program is designed to help prepare a small select group of highly experienced leaders to effect substantive change in health and health care systems in Maine, according to the Portland-based Hanley Center. Mentors are selected from a pool of distinguished leaders from Maine’s health and healthcare communities and other professions. Dana-Sacco was selected for the program because of her experience, leadership qualities, and "her strong commitment to decreasing health disparities facing Native Americans and other underserved populations in Maine," according to Sean Hanley, M.D., chair of the Hanley Center Board of Directors.

Recent UMaine Graduate Makes Conference Presentation
Kimberly Dean, a recent graduate of the the UMaine College of Education & Human Development's early education program, served as a panel speaker at the annual National Association for the Education of Young Children's Professional Development Institute held June 14-17 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dean is co-president of the UMaine campus Early Childhood Organization (EChO), a student organization dedicated to early childhood education advocacy. The UMaine organization is the largest in the nation. The panel Dean served on discussed the creation of campus EChO organizations and organization planning.

Student Entertainment Schedules Bentley Concert
UMaine Student Entertainment and radio station WQCB will present a Friday Sept. 4 Alfond Arena concert featuring country music star Dierks Bentley. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are available online at umainetix.com.


UMaine in the News

Dickens Article on Scientific Computing
 Scientific Computing features an article by Prof. Phillip Dickens of the UMaine Dept. of Computer Science about research involving climate change computer modeling.

Wertheim in Sunday Telegram Story
 Comments from Frank Wertheim of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty are included in a June 28 Maine Sunday Telegram story offering advice about watering lawns and gardens, especially in the context of rainy conditions.

Thoroughbred Times Previews Peterson Presentation
 Tuesday's issue of Thoroughbred Times includes a story previewing August's Jockey Club's 57th annual Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing. It notes that Prof. Mick Peterson from the UMaine Dept. of Mechanical Engineering will provide an update on the Racing Surfaces Testing Laboratory as part of a discussion on equine safety.


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