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UMaine News - Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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Dana-Sacco Named Hanley Center Fellow |
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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. |
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Recent UMaine Graduate Makes Conference
Presentation |
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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. |
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Student Entertainment Schedules Bentley Concert |
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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. |
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Dickens Article on Scientific Computing |
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Scientific Computing features an article by
Prof. Phillip Dickens of the UMaine Dept. of Computer
Science about research involving climate change computer
modeling. |
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Wertheim in Sunday Telegram Story |
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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. |
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Thoroughbred Times Previews Peterson Presentation |
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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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