News Releases 2006-2007

September 1, 2006 to August 31, 2007

Below are news releases written and distributed by the Office of Public Affairs. For more info, please contact the Office of Public Affairs at 780-4200 or e-mail lmooney@usm.maine.edu.

August

• Portland Press Herald Columnist Kicks Off USM's Evenings at Abromson Series
• Maine Author, Jane Brox to Speak at USM on September 27
• USM Hosts New England College Admission Counseling Annual Fall College Fair
• USM Recognizes Scholarship Students
• USM Lifeline to Develop Verrill Dana's Employee Wellness Program
• New Minor in Environmental Sustainability Available at USM
• University of Maine School of Law Announces Vincent L. McKusick Fellowship Fund With Initial Endowment from Pierce Atwood LLP
• USM College of Nursing and Health Professions Pilot Program Reduces Hospitalization Rates and Health Care Costs
• Intimate Portraits from War-Torn Countries on Exhibit at USM
• Educators at USM Connecting Science & Math to Critical Civic Questions

July

• USM Hosts National Marine Educators Conference July 23-27
• Author Suffering from Alzheimer's Disease To Give Keynote Address at USM’s Dementia Day Camp
• Preschool Educators Have New Options for Graduate-Level Education At USM
• USM Student Awarded Prestigious Fellowship for Environmental Leaders

June

• Standish Resident Donates Rare Reformation Publications to USM
• Intimate Portraits from War-Torn Countries on Exhibit at USM
• Upward Bound at USM Hosts 75 High School Students This Summer
• Bank of America Foundation Gift Supports USM Libraries
• Tasha Dunham Book Fund Established
• USM Alumna to Study in Lithuania on Fulbright Scholarship
• Maine's Family-Owned Businesses of the Year Announced
• Mark B. Lapping Named USM's Interim Provost
• Governance For Families In Business Conference to be Held June 19-22
• Construction to Reduce Traffic on Bedford Street

May

• University of Maine School graduates 85
• Awards Presented at University of Maine School of Law Commencement
• USM's O'Donnell Distinguished Service Award in Literacy
• Mitchell Keynotes Law School Graduation May 26
• USM Muskie School Researchers Receive National Rural Health Quality Award
• Maine's Family-Owned Businesses Of The Year Nominated
• USM Media Studies Program Presents First Annual Kathryn Lasky Public Service Award
• USM Students Win 2007 Student Business Plan Competition
• USM President Richard Pattenaude, Soon to be Chancellor of the UMaine System, "Worked Hard, Did Well, Had Fun."
• USM's 127th Commencement
• USM Hosts Maine Model United Nations Conference for High School Students
• USM’s Outstanding Seniors Hail from Caribou and Greene
• USM Honors Four with Emeriti Status
• Commencement Bittersweet for USM President Pattenaude
• USM & MEMIC Conference on Prevention of On-The-Job Injuries
• USM Professor and Student Among this Yeara^s Maine Campus Compact Award Winners

April

• Lori Royer Names USM's 2007 Student Commencement Speaker
• USM Nursing Students Program on Elder Healthcare
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation "Cover the Uninsured Week"at USM
• Los Angeles Comic Performing at USM
• Human Rights Champion and Former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, Will Speak at USMa^s Genocide & Human Rights Event
• Everyone is welcome!
• Students Compete for $25,000 in Business Start-Up Costs
• USM Hosts An Evening With Cindy Bullens
• University of Maine School of Law's Federalist Society Second Annual Debate on the Death Penalty
• "Between a Rock and a Hard Place"

March

• Exhibition Looks at Historic Pacific Coast Maps and Prints Quivira Collection Owner to Speak on April 10
• USM Graduate Student Lead Historical Advisor for “Amazing Grace”
• USM’s Second Annual Knap-In A Fun Family Event in Gorham
• USM Symposium Features Research Projects that Matter
• USM Celebrates Marjorie Ryerson’s Book “Water Music” with Exhibition and Reception
• USM Students Spend Alternative Spring Break in Mississippi
• USM Muskie School and USM School of Business Announce Joint Degrees Program
• Maine Law Announces the Orlando Delogu Earth Day 5-K Saturday, April 21, 2007
• USM Nursing Students Program on End-of-Life Decisions
• USM Stages Machiavelli's  “The Mandrake”
• USM to Host Spring Job Fair
• A Day of Women’s Voices on WMPG!
• USM Students Depart Portland Campus on 3/24 For Alternative Spring Break
• USM to Host Life Planning Retreat for Women
• Survey Shines First Light On Stalking And Identity Theft
• Maine Law Students Join Drive to Change Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy
• USM's Community Radio Station WMPG Launches Spring Begathon on Monday, March 19
• USM Looking for Women to Participate in Weight-Loss Study
• USM Hosts An Evening of Storytelling
• Harvard Physician to Speak About the Health Effects of Pollutants in Main
• USM/CBHS Partnership Offers College Opportunities
• The Desirability of Long-Term Care Insurance
• Maine Authors Thomas Hanna and Trudy Chambers Price to Speak at USM
• USM Appoints Foster as Dean of the Muskie School

February

• Historian Speaks on Gettysburg's Lost History at USM
• Women's History Month at USM
• Public Invited to Engineering Week Expo at USM
• USM Hosts Sixth Annual Northern New England Science Bowl
• Tony Shalhoub Donates to USM Campaign
• Maine Law Hosts Environmental Law Expert as Visiting Associate Professor for Spring 2007
• USM Foundation Names New Directors
• Maine Medical Center and USM Sign Agreement to Move Research Beyond the Lab
• Warm Up Your Winter With a Double Helping of Comedy-- Filled With Love, Laughter, and Surprises!
• USM Professors Seek Older Students for Dementia Study
• Philosophy Professor from Jerusalem to Speak at USM
• USM's L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Colloquium to Look at Uncontested Board Elections
• School Psychology Program Offers New Certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis

January

• Visiting Professor from Sweden Compares Childcare in U.S. and Scandinavia
• Visiting Scholar to Speak on Adjusting Teaching Styles for Multicultural Students
• Painter Marsden Hartleya^s Proven?al Landscapes Subject of USM Lecture
• Photographs of China at USM
• USM Celebrates the Life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

December

• USM Students Pack on 12/28 for Medical Mission to the Dominican Republic
• Author Ann Hood To Read from New Novel at USM on January 10
• USM Corporate Partners Host "Breakfast With Charlie"
• Exhibit Celebrates Black History Month at USM
• New Scholarship To Help Students Prepare for Careers
• Communication Expert Available to Untangle Holiday Dilemmas
• USM Program Offers Dual Certification in Secondary Level Special Education and General Education
• USM Professor Acknowledged Nationally for Contributions to Economics

November

• AIDS Awareness Day Celebrated at USM Area Gallery Exhibition on Friday, December 1
• Rural Americans Face Higher Costs for Health Care
• The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Comes to USM
• USM Offers Bomb Threat Reward
• USM Announces This Year’s Merit Scholars
• “Groundbreaking” for USM University Commons Slated for 11/15
• USM Film Promotes Understanding Refugee and Immigrant Experiences
• USM Remembers Richard Steinman, Memorial Slated for November 17
• USM Board of Visitors Expresses "Serious Concern" about TABOR
• Princeton Review Names Maine Law as #1 on List of Schools “Most Welcoming of Older Students”
• Symposium on Free Speech at Public Universities Slated for 11/15 at USM
• USM’s Center for Continuing Education Hosts Life Planning Retreat for Women

October

• Painter Marsden Hartley’s Provençal Landscapes Subject of USM Lecture
• Eighteenth Century European Cartography Examined in USM Lecture
• Auburn Dancer Awarded First USM-Portland Ballet Scholarship
• USM Stages 211-Year-Old Classic Italian Comedy
• USM Education Alumni Honored on a New Wall of Achievement
• USM Lifeline Celebrates 30th Anniversary
• USM Hosts Gubenatorial Debate
• "Cookoff" Author at USM
• Karyn Frist Reading and Book Signing
• EAST Conference
• Political Repression, Subversive Art To Be Discussed at USM Events
• Teach-In on Middle East to Take Place at USM
• Poet Fanny Howe to Read at USM
• Annual USM Sampson Center Exhibition Examines Religion's Impact on African American, LGBT, and Jewish Communities
• Maine’s Leading Women Politicians on USM Panel
• USM College of Education and Human Development Announces External Advisory Council
• The University of Southern Maine's Muskie School of Public Service Hosts Open House
• Poet Kazim Ali to Read at USM
• CTEL Sponsors Lectures for Faculty on e-Learning
• USM’s Office of Undergraduate Admission to Host Fall Open House

September

• USM Homecoming Events On Gorham Campus
• William David Barry to Speak at USM
• USM to Host Annual Open House for Those Interested in Education Careers
• National Expert to Speak on Improving Quality of Health Care for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Problems
• USM Kicks Off Homecoming '06
• USM Hosts Independent Journalist Speaking about War in Iraq
• Reich Keynotes USM Executive Forum
• Maine Gubernatorial Forum to Address Environmental and Energy Issues
• Globe Circumnavigator Coming to USM
• Constitution Day Colloquium at University of Maine School of Law
• USM's Southworth Planetarium hosts NASA's Vision for Space Exploration Experience
• Osher Map Library's Exhibition Extended Until December 31, 2006
• USM Hosts New England Association of College Admission Officers College Fair
• Dorothy Snowman Scholarship Created at USM to Benefit Caribou and Aroostook County Students
• Princeton Review Ranks USM Among the Best in the Northeast
  
• Can't Jail the Spirit: Art by "Political Prisoner" Tom Manning and Others
  Note: This exhibition has been closed as of Friday, September 8, 2006.
  Please refer to USM President Richard L. Pattenaude's statement on the art exhibit

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