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This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in General University of Maine Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ______SPECIAL COLLECTION Cooperative Graduate Studies Program forms a new statewide education, research partnership Separate agreements between the University Furthermore, the agreement will of Maine and four other Maine-based research make doctoral-level education in the institutions form a new education and biosciences available to satisfy research partnership which UMaine an increasing demand in President Peter S. Hoff says “will Maine. Employees - provide new opportunities and and, in USM’s case, benefits - not just for the (partic­ employees and ipating) institutions, but for students - of the four the state of Maine and institutions will be able to perhaps beyond.” earn a Ph.D. from UMaine The Cooperative in fields of study related to the Graduate Studies agreement, creating more highly Program is a collabo­ trained scientists to support Maine’s ration that includes The growing biomedical and biotechnology Jackson Laboratory of Bar industries. Harbor; Mount Desert Island “As we move forward in the broad field Biological Laboratory of Salisbury of biomedicine, new strategies and technolo­ Cove; the University of Southern Maine gies will be needed to address the increasingly in Portland, Gorham and Lewiston-Auburn; complex questions faced by scientists,” Hoff says. and Maine Medical Center Research Institute in ’ “Collaboration will allow us to develop new syner­ Portland. gies and strategies to (help find answers to those) Under the agreements, UMaine faculty members questions,” he says. and graduate students in the fields of biology, chem­ By sharing expertise and resources, the institutions istry, physics, engineering, computer science and in the program hope to increase their ability to mathematics will collaborate with researchers at the compete at the highest level for the opportunity to four institutions on projects related to biology and conduct cutting-edge research. biomedicine. In return, certain researchers at the four “Under these agreements, collectively we will institutions will be granted graduate-level adjunct compete for a larger pool of federal research funds,” faculty status and will work in their respective areas of Hoff says. “By becoming more competitive for those expertise with graduate students and undergraduates at funds, we increase significantly the opportunities for UMaine. millions of dollars in federal investment to our state.” Such an investment, at the very least, creates new jobs and new spending in-state, strengthening the University has a Maine economy. It also is investment which, at the very best, creates entire new industries for Maine and new look on the Web contributes to medical breakthroughs that benefit UMaine’s Web site (www.umaine.edu) has a new humanity, Hoff adds. look. The University has statewide teaching, research and The Marketing Department, which maintains the outreach responsibilities. The Carnegie Foundation for site, has put new architecture and a navigational the Advancement of Teaching classifies UMaine as a system in place to create a dynamic homepage for the “doctoral research extensive” university, the top clas­ University. The redesigned top-level page offers sification. Only four percent (148) of the nation’s access to UMaine news headlines, spotlight features, 3,800 accredited universities and colleges have “quick links” to popular campus destinations - even received that top classification. ▲ streaming audio of the Stein Song. A portal system links users to six primary information centers dedi­ cated to prospective students, current students, In Perspective research, visitors/alumni, faculty/staff, and outreach. 2 Alumni House The new architecture is found on the first and 8 Tenure and Promotion second tiers of the site. UMaine departments and Cover photo by Matthew Hakola others with Web pages that are official publications of the University of Maine will incorporate aspects of the As a service to the University community, costs of producing Maine Perspective are new format and navigational system. Guidelines, underwritten by University Printing Services. templates and artwork for redesigning UMaine-affili- HOOB THE UNIVERSITY OF A PUBLICATION ated Web pages are available on the University’s Web OF AND FOR help pages. THE For more information, contact UMaine Webmaster H MAINE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE Howard Mosher ([email protected]). ▲ VOL. 12, NO. 13 MARCH 26-APRIL 9,2001 Groundbreaking set for Buchanan Alumni House A groundbreaking ceremony this spring will launch the construction of a $4.5 million Alumni House, made possible by the largest private fund-raising effort in the University’s history. UMaine alumni and friends donated thousands of gifts and pledges that total more than $7 million, which allows for the establishment of an endowment. Alumni House, named in honor of Dr. Robert D. Buchanan, Class of ’44, is the first UMaine building to have an endowment for its perpetual care and maintenance. A groundbreaking ceremony for Alumni House is set for 2 p.m., Friday, May 4. Construction is expected to take 14 months. The hope is that the facility will be open when students begin the fall 2002 semester. A scale model of Dr. Robert D. Buchanan '44 Alumni House shows the facility as it will face “This is a building that will help market the College Avenue. University,” says Jeff Mills, president and executive director of the Alumni Association. “Our hope is that Alumni House will be a resource that faculty, staff, the community and alumni will Barrett Fund to sponsor want to use. It will be the setting of major campus functions and Garden Show Preview Night announcements, the ‘place to call home’ for alumni and the holder of The Bangor Garden Show, Thursday-Sunday, March 29-April 1, the traditions for students and the institution. will open with a Preview Night and the introduction of the first “Many alumni think of UMaine as their second family. That’s why University of Maine recipient of the Ellen Louise Payson Scholarship, this project was so popular.” established last year by Bangor Beautiful and patrons of the Bangor While most of the fund raising occurred in the past four years, Garden show. alumni have been anticipating the project for more than a decade. The Preview Night, 6-9 p.m. March 29, is sponsored by The Robert and first donation to the project was made 10 years ago. Catherine Barrett Fund for Landscape Horticulture at the University In recent years, a $1 million naming gift came from Robert of Maine in Memory of Beatrix J. Ferrand. Buchanan, a first-generation college student who grew up in Caribou Students in the Landscape Horticulture Society are selling tickets and had a career as a dentist before retiring in California. for Preview Night. Tickets are $25, with $3 from every sale bene­ The 32,000-square-foot facility is designed by the Bangor-based fiting the Ellen Louise Payson Landscape Horticulture Scholarship continued on page 15 for landscape horticulture majors. continued on page 15 Historical Maine census data MAINE PERSPECTIVE PUBLISHING SCHEDULE available on Fogler Web site Publication dates and deadlines for spring issues of Maine Perspective: April 9 (copy deadline March 30); April 23 (copy deadline April 13); Two hundred years of census population totals and selected infor­ May 7 (copy deadline April 27). mation about Maine towns and counties are now available to the public through a new Web page by Fogler Library. The Maine Census Data page (www.library.umaine.edu/census/) includes information about Maine’s population trends between 1790 and 1990. MAINE Perspective The site will be useful for ------MAINE CENSUS DATA- Maine Perspective is published by the Department of Public Affairs The University of Maine • 5761 Howard A. Keyo Public Affairs Building students, Orono. Maine 04469-5761 • 207-581-3745 public Director of Public Affairs John Diamond • Executive Editor Margaret Nagle administrators Layout and Design by The University of Maine Department of Public Affairs and others who need information about Maine’s population trends. Printed by The University of Maine Printing Services Previously, such information was found in published documents that In complying with the letter and spirit of applicable laws and in pursuing had to be searched separately. The database does not contain family its own goals of diversity, the University of Maine System shall not information that might be useful for genealogy studies. discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or citizenship status, age, disability, or Users can search for information in the census database in a variety veterans status in employment, education, and all other areas of the of ways. Searching can be done on a decade-by-decade basis for University. The University provides reasonable accommodations to specific towns or by towns that had increasing or decreasing popula­ qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. Questions and tions over a range of years. The site also contains historical maps complaints about discrimination in any area of the University should be showing county jurisdictional boundaries. directed to Evelyn Silver, Director of Equal Opportunity, 101 North Information in the database can be used to reveal a detailed picture Stevens Hall, The University of Maine, 207-581-1226. about Maine history. Tables on the “Original Concept” page, for nrra the university of example, show that the number of Maine’s civil jurisdictions grew ITDMAINE continued on page 15

2 • Maine Perspective . March 26, 2001 MARCH 30 - APRIL 14

Hours for the Depot Recycling and Redemption Center: noon-6 p.m., Monday-Friday; Introduction to PageMaker, a Fogler 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. Access Queries, an IT workshop, 9- Library workshop, 9-11 a.m., For more information, 10:50 a.m., April 3, 215 Little Hall. March 30, Fogler Library Computer call Denny Grant, x3076. Reservations required. X1638. Classroom. Admission Fee. VALIC Group Meeting for Employees, Registration required. X1696. The Maine Event: Concert by Ani by Jane Brann, retirement planning “The Role of Iron in Phytoplankton Difranco, part of the Women's History specialist, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., April 3, 220 Growth: From High Nutrient-Low Celebration, 8 p.m., March 31, Corbett Hall. Chlorophyll Regions to Harmful Algal Hutchins Concert Hall, Maine Center Frontpage I, a Fogler Library work­ Blooms,” by Charlie Trick, Department for the Arts. Admission Fee. X1793. shop, 1-3 p.m., April 3, Fogler Library of Plant Sciences, University of Computer Classroom. Admission Fee. Western Ontario, part of the School of Registration required. xl696. Marine Sciences Seminar Series, 11 a.m.-noon, March 30, 100 Bryand April Relaxation and Meditation Series, 4- Global Sciences Center. x4381. 5 p.m., April 3, Drummond Chapel, Union. X1392. “Notes from Exile,” group discussion of Clive Doucet’s portrait of Acadian 1 Sunday GLBTQ: Coffee Talk, 7-8:30 p.m., identity, part of the Franco-American April 3, 207 Little Hall. X1793. Studies Brown Bag Luncheon Series, “Humor, Religion and Philosophy,” by University Singers in Concert, part of 12:15-1 p.m., March 30, FFA Room, Lee Siegel, Religion Department, the School of Performing Arts season, Union. x3791. University of Hawaii and UMaine's 2 p.m., April 1, Minsky Recital Hall, Marshall Dodge Memorial Philosophy “Strategies for Handling Spatial Class of 1944 Hall. Admission Fee. Uncertainty Due to Control,” by Lecturer, 7 p.m., April 3,100 Neville X1755. Thomas Windholz, candidate for Ph.D. Hall. X3860. in spatial information science and engi­ Performance by Howie Day, part of neering, 2 p.m., March 30, 326 the Java Jive series and the Spring Boardman Hall. Fling Week celebration, 8-10 p.m., “Surface Studies of Bulk and Nano­ April 3, Wells Conference Center. Scale Layered Semiconductor “Trade-offs Between Growth and Admission Fee. X1793. Materials,” by Stephen Kelty, Reproduction in Northern White-tailed Department of Chemistry, Seton Hall, Deer in Relation to Regulating and a Department of Chemistry Limiting Factors,” by Michel Crete, Colloquium, 2 p.m., March 30, 316 Societe de la fauna et des pares du 4 Wednesday Aubert Hall. X1169. Quebec, part of the Wildlife Ecology Noontime Seminar Series, noon, Introduction to PhotoShop, a Fogler “Ethics as the Foundation For April 2, 204 Nutting Hall. x2862. Library workshop, 9-11 a.m., April 4, Leadership Greatness,” part of the Fogler Library Computer Classroom. Friday Forum series, 3-5 p.m., Student Employee Appreciation Admission Fee. Registration required. March 30, Hole in the Wall, Union. Luncheon, highlighted by the presenta­ X1696. X1793. tion of awards for undergraduate and graduate student employees of the “Art, Power, and Language in French International Coffee Hour, 4-5 p.m., year, noon, April 2, Wells Conference Canada,” featuring the presentation of March 30, Bangor Lounge, Union. Center. X1349. three papers: "'Des dialogues curieux': x2905. Literary Device and Ethnographic Brown Bag Discussion Series, 12:15- Opera Workshop Performance of Discourse in the Works of Lahontan" 1 p.m., April 2, Bangor Lounges, Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, part of the by Susan Pinette; "Acadian Poetry Union. X1793. School of Performing Arts season, through Political and Social. Evolution" 7:30 p.m., March 30, Cyrus Pavilion “Educational Apartheid in Maine: The by Lise Pelletier; and "A Watershed of Theatre. Admission Fee. X1755. Maine Indian Experience,” by Donna Words: Litigating and Negotiating Loring, Penobscot representative to Nature in the Eastern James Bay the Maine Legislature (a lecture Region, 1971-1975" by Hans Carlson, rescheduled from March 5), part of the part of the Alice R. Stewart Canadian Women's History Celebration, 4 p.m., Lecture Series, noon-l:30 p.m., All events are free and open to April 2, Mahogany Room, Wells April 4, Dexter Lounge, Alfond Arena. the public, unless specified. Spruce Run Chocolate Party, a benefit Conference Center. X1228. x4220. Any speaker not otherwise event, part of the Women's History UMaine Class of 2005 Reception, “Balancing Research and Teaching,” identified is a member of The Celebration, 7-9 p.m., March 31, reception for fall 2001 incoming new a Center for Teaching Excellence New University of Maine faculty, staff University College Center, Bangor. students, 6:30-8 p.m., April 2, Wells Faculty Luncheon with John Hwalek, or student body. Send notices Admission Fee. X1228. Conference Center. xl826. Bill Livingston and Elise Turner, noon- of upcoming campus events to: Opera Workshop Performance of 1:30 p.m., April 4, Mahogany Room, The University of Maine Performance by SNL Comedian Jim Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, part of the Breuer, 8-9 p.m., April 2, Hutchins Wells Conference Center. Registration Master Calendar, Public Affairs. School of Performing Arts season, Concert Hall, Maine Center for the required. x3472. For faculty at UMaine For the most up-to-date 7:30 p.m., March 31, Cyrus Pavilion Arts. X1793. fewer than three years. Theatre. Admission Fee. xl755. calendar listings, see Food for Thought Series, noon-1 p.m., http://calendar.umaine.edu April 4, FFA Room, Union. X1392. or call 581-3745.

March 26, 2001 • Maine Perspective • 3 “Constructing Women's Status: Policy Discourses of Gender Equity Initiatives in Higher Education,” by 9 Monday Elizabeth Allan, assistant professor, Higher Education Leadership, part of “Implications of Recent Research the Women in the Curriculum Lunch Exhibits/Demonstrations/Tours on the Management and Recovery Series, 12:15-1:30 p.m., April 4, Department of Art Student Exhibition, a Museum of Art exhibit, April 20- of Endangered Northwest Atlantic Bangor Lounge, Union. X1228. May 11, Carnegie Hail. x3255. Roseate Tern,” by Jeff Spendelow, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research La Vita E'Bella, part of the Ustamdan Ogrendim, "I Learned From My Master"; Traditional Turkish Center, Laurel, Md., part of the Cinematique film series, 7-9 p.m., Occupations, a Hudson Museum exhibit of photographs and objects, Wildlife Ecology Noontime Seminar April 4, Devino Auditorium, Corbett through June 3, Maine Center for the Arts. xl901. Series, noon, April 9, 204 Nutting Business Building. Admission Fee. Hall. x2862. X1793. Entertainment Brown Bag Discussion Series, “The Music and Letters of Fanny Taking Steps, by Alan Ayckbourn, a Maine Masque production, 7:30 p.m., 12:15-1 p.m., April 9, Bangor and Felix Mendelssohn: Sibling April 18-21; 2 p.m., April 21-22, Hauck Auditorium. Admission Fee. Lounges, Union. X1793. Revelry and Rivalry,” by Laura X1755. Artesani, Francis John Vogt and Meetings of Groups/Organizations Free Tax Assistance from VITA, 2- Emily Burns, part of the Women's 5 p.m., April 9, 117 Corbett Circle K, meets every Monday, 6:30 p.m., Bangor Lounge, Union. History Celebration, 7 p.m., April 4, Business Building. xl982. Minsky Recital Hall. Admission Fee. Fellowship Meal, 5:30 p.m., every Thursday, Wilson Center. 866-4227. End of Second-Third of Semester for X1228. Food for Thought Series, the first Wednesday of each month, noon- Withdrawals, 4:30 p.m., April 9. 1 p.m., FFA Room, Union. X1392. Foreign Language Tables, Monday - French; Tuesday - Russian; 5 Thursday Wednesday - German; Thursday - Spanish; Friday - Irish, 207 Little Hail. x2073. “Politics and Contemporary Poetry," Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender/Questioning Discussion Group, Registration for Fall Classes Begins. by Ben Friedlander and Steve Evans, meets every Monday, 6 p.m., Old Town Room, Union. X1793. part of the Socialist and Marxist Presentation by Prexar President Studies Luncheon Series, 12:30- International Coffee Hour, 4-5 p.m., every Friday, Bangor Lounge, Union. Daniel Doiron, part of the Emerging 1:45 p.m., April 5, Levinson Room, x2905. Business Issues for Maine Series, 7:30-9 a.m., April 10, Bangor Motor The Maples. x3860. Maine Peace Action Committee (MPAC), meets every Monday, 3:30- Inn and Conference Center. 5 p.m., Maples Building. “A Wall of Refuse and Anti- Admission Fee. Reservations Wal Mart Activism,” by alumnus Muslim Prayer, noon-2 p.m., every Friday, Drummond Chapel, Union. required. xl968. and artist Wally Warren, part of the X1793. Department of Art Visiting Lecture Access Reports, an IT workshop, 9- Wednesday Prayer and Meditation, 1-2 p.m., offered by the Wilson Series, 7 p.m., April 5, 202 Carnegie 10:50 a.m., April 10, 215 Little Hall. Center, Drummond Chapel, Union. 866-4227. Hall. x3245. Reservations required. X1638. Image Ready and Web Graphics, a Fogler Library workshop, 1-3 p.m., “Migratory Orientation: An Elegant Whitewater Tune-up Day, offered by April 10, Fogler Library Computer 6 Friday Mix of Innate Rules and Learning,” Maine Bound, April 7. Admission Classroom. Admission Fee. by Kenneth Able, Department of Fee. Registration required. X1794. Registration required. X1696. “Brain Brew: Scientific Principles Biological Sciences, SUNY-Albany, Annual AAUW Used Book Sale, “Understanding the Rhythms of the for Thinking Smarter and More part of the Department of Biological offered by the Penobscot Valley Group,” part of the Tuesday Talks Creatively,” by alumnus and author Sciences Seminar Series, 3:10 p.m., Branch of AAUW, April 7, Church of series, 3:30-5 p.m., April 10, Hole in Doug Hall, founder of Eureka! Ranch, April 6,102 Murray Hall. x2970. Universal Fellowship, Orono. 866- part of the 51st Annual Pulp and the Wall, Union. X1793. International Coffee Hour, 45 p.m., 2881. Early bird sale 8-9 a.m. for Paper Foundation Open House, Relaxation and Meditation Series, April 6, Bangor Lounge, Union. small admission fee. 9:30 a.m.-noon, April 6, Wells 45 p.m., April 10, Drummond X2905. Conference Center. Reservations Softball: UMaine vs. Drexel, noon, Chapel, Union. X1392. required. x2297. Peter Schickele - The Jekyll and April 7. xBEAR. Poetry Reading by Eileen Myles, Hyde Tour, part of the Maine Center “Patterns, Causes and Men's and Women's Track: UMaine part of the New Writing Series, for the Arts performance season, Consequences of Spore Dispersal in vs. UNH, 1 p.m., April 7. xBEAR. 4:30 p.m., April 10, Soderberg 8 p.m., April 6, Hutchins Concert the Giant Kelp Macrocystis Center, Jenness Hall. x3822. Hall. Admission Fee. xl755. The Maine Event: Inflatable/Foam pyrifera,” by Dan Reed, Marine Party, part of the Spring Fling Week GLBTQ: Coffee Talk, 7-8:30 p.m., Science Institute, University of celebration, 6 p.m.-midnight, April 7, April 10, 207 Little Hall. X1793. California-Santa Barbara, part of the Field House. X1793. School of Marine Sciences Seminar “Retracing El Mapa de Teozacoalco: Series, 11 a.m.-noon, April 6,100 Archaeological Research in Oaxaca, Bryand Global Sciences Center. 7 Saturday Mexico,” by Steve Whittington, X4381. 8 Sunday 7 p.m., April 10, Bodwell Area, Backcountry Skiing on Mount Maine Center for the Arts. xl901. “Zebrafish: A Hook into Human Washington, offered by Maine Functional Genomics,” by Keith Softball: UMaine vs. Drexel, noon, Faculty Recital by Ludlow Hallman, Bound, April 7. Admission Fee. Hutchison, a Department of April 8. xBEAR. part of the School of Performing Arts Registration required. X1794. Chemistry Colloquium, 2 p.m., Faculty Recital by Beth Wiemann, season, 7:30 p.m., April 10, Minsky April 6, 316 Aubert Hall. xll69. Introduction to Rock Climbing, part of the School of Performing Arts Recital Hall. Admission Fee. X1755. offered by Maine Bound, April 7. season, 7:30 p.m., April 8, Minsky Performance by Maggi, Pierce & EJ, Admission Fee. Registration Recital Hall. Admission Fee. xl755. part of the Java Jive Music Series, 8- required. x!794. 10 p.m., April 10, Bangor Lounges, Union. X1793.

4 . Maine Perspective • March 26, 2001 “Peace: The Ultimate Experience of Baseball: UMaine vs. Delaware, Spring Creeking for Kayakers, Human Existence,” by political 4 p.m., April 13, Mahaney Diamond. offered by Maine Bound, April 14. 1 1 Wednesday scientist and author Naresh Dadhich Admission Fee. xBEAR. Admission Fee. Registration of the University of Rajasthan, India, required. xl794. International Coffee Hour, 4-5 p.m., State Math Meet, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., director of the Jaipur Peace April 13, Bangor Lounge, Union. 15th Annual Easter Egg Hunt, for April 11, Alfond Arena. X4092. Foundation, part of the Socialist and X2905. children preschool to third grade, Marxist Studies Luncheon Series, The Graduate Research Exposition, offered by University Credit Union 12:30-1:45 p.m., April 12, Levinson offered by the Association of and Orono Recreation Department, Room, The Maples. X3860. Graduate Students and the Graduate 10 a.m., April 14, Asa Adams School, poster gallery open to the Cross-Cultural Conversations, 14 School, Orono. xl458. public 8 a.m.-noon, April 11, Wells offered by Peace Studies and Softball: UMaine vs. Hartford, Conference Center. x4548. Multicultural Programs, 3:30-5 p.m., Building Bombproof Climbing 11 a.m., April 14. xBEAR. April 12, 205 East Annex. x2609. Anchors, a clinic offered by Maine PhotoShop II, a Fogler Library work­ Bound, April 14. Admission Fee. Baseball: UMaine vs. Delaware, shop, 9-11 a.m., April 11, Fogler “Gandhian Nonviolence as a Means Registration required. xl794. noon, April 14, Mahaney Diamond. Library Computer Classroom. for Peace,” by political scientist and Admission Fee. xBEAR. Admission Fee. Registration author Naresh Dadhich of the required. X1696. University of Rajasthan, India, “Performing the Paper: Rural Wit director of the Jaipur Peace Foundation, part of the Philosophy and 'Female Influence' in Northern Look Wbo’s O n C ampus Colloquium Series, 4 p.m., April 12, New England,” by Jo Radner, Levinson Room, The Maples. x3860. professor of literature, American LEE SIEGEL, professor of religion at the University of University, part of the Women in the Phi Beta Kappa Induction Hawaii, will deliver this year's Marshall Dodge Curriculum Lunch Series, 12:15- Ceremony, highlighted by a keynote Memorial Philosophy Lecture, "Humor, Religion and 1:30 p.m., April 11, Bangor Lounge, address by Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Philosophy,” on Tuesday, April 3, 7 p.m., 100 Neville Union. X1228. Scholar Giles Gunn of the University Hall. Siegel is the author of several books on Asian reli­ of California-Santa Barbara, speaking “From Seattle '99 to Quebec City gion, love, sexuality, humor and magic, including Love '01: A Panel Discussion on on "Globalizing the Curriculum: Can in a Dead Language: A Romance, a 1999 New York Globalization and the FTAA (Free You Major in Global Studies?" Times Book Review "Notable Book of the Year.” In 5 p.m., April 12, Dexter Lounge, Trade Area of the Americas),” with addition, he has written, directed, performed and consulted for many televi­ Alfond Arena. panelists including youth activist sion and film productions. Ethan Miller and faculty member “Alpine Big Wall Adventures Slide Melvin Burke, offered by Peace Show,” by Mark Synnott, 7-9 p.m., Alumnus and sculptor WALLY WARREN will talk about “A Wall of Refuse and Studies, 3:30-5 p.m., April 11, April 12, 110 Little Hall. xl794. Anti-Wal Mart Activism” at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 5, 202 Carnegie Hall. Devino Auditorium, Corbett Business Warren, a '73 graduate, was an artist in Seattle before returning to Maine to Building. x2609. continue his work. Described by some as “faux folk,” his vividly painted assemblages of manufactured debris are whimsical statements on over- University of Maine Authors consumption and cultural disenfranchisement. Reception, offered by Fogler Library, 3:30-5 p.m., April 11, University Alumnus DOUG HALL, one of America's leading inventors of new products, “Episodic Sea-Level Rise Events Club, Fogler Library. X3095. will present “Brain Brew: Scientific Principles for Thinking Smarter and More During The Past 18,000 Years: Creatively” on Friday, April 6, 9:30 a.m.-noon, Wells Conference Center. Hall, Mr. Death, part of the Cinematique Their Impact On Coastal Evolution who received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering in 1981, worked film series, 7-9 p.m., April 11, And Lessons For The Future," by in brand management with Procter & Gamble, rising to the title of master Devino Auditorium. Corbett Business Robert Thieler, research geologist, marketing inventor. After a decade, he retired to found Richard Saunders Building. Admission Fee. xl793. U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and International. As CEO of Richard Saunders International's Eureka! Ranch, Marine Geology Program, Woods Hall and his Eureka! Ranch team are considered to be among the top corpo­ Hole, part of the School of Marine rate creative resources. Eureka! Ranch clients include Walt Disney, Nike, Sciences Seminar Series, 11 a.m.- American Express, Mattel, Chrysler, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble 12 Thursday noon, April 13, 100 Bryand Global and Compaq Computer. Hall conducts seminars and workshops “for people Sciences Center. x4381. Introduction to PageMaker, a Fogler looking to unleash their creativity.” He is the author of three books, the “Folklore of French Newfoundland,” Library workshop, 9-11 a.m., newest being Jump Start Your Business Brain. by Jamie Moreira, part of the Franco- April 12, Fogler Library Computer American Studies Brown Bag Classroom. Admission Fee. NARESH DADHICH, director of the Centre for Gandhian Studies at the Luncheon Series, 12:15-1 p.m., Registration required. X1696. University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, will speak twice on Thursday, April 12. April 13, FFA Room, Union. x3791. At 12:30 p.m., he will talk on “Peace: The Ultimate Experience of Human The Graduate Research Exposition, “Molecular Recognition from Small Existence," and at 4 p.m. on “Gandhian Nonviolence as a Means for Peace.” with open gallery for viewing posters Molecules to Proteins,” by Brian Both will be in the Levinson Room, The Maples. Dadhich is an associate 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; keynote address by Liton, Department of Chemistry, professor of political science. He is the author of Gandhi and Existentialism, Provost Robert Kennedy at 5 p.m.; Bowdoin College, a Department of and the founding editor of two journals: Gandhian Studies and Shanti: A followed by awards ceremony for Chemistry Colloquium, 2 p.m., Journal of Peace Studies. outstanding research, offered by the April 13, 316 Aubert Hall. X1169. Association of Graduate Students The annual induction of new members of Phi Beta Kappa and the Graduate School, April 12, Softball: UMaine vs. Hartford, at 5 p.m., Thursday, April 12, Dexter Lounge, Alfond Wells Conference Center. x4548. 2 p.m., April 13. xBEAR. Arena, will be followed by an address by Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar GILES GUNN of the University of “Family Connections: Grandparents “Modeling Structure and Function California-Santa Barbara. Gunn will speak on "Globalizing Raising Grandchildren,” by Barbara in a Sensory System,” by Sharon the Curriculum: Can You Major in Global Studies?" Gunn Kates, founder and director of Family Crook, part of the Department of is professor of English, and professor of global and inter­ Connections, part of the EAP Lunch Biological Sciences Seminar Series, national studies at UC-Santa Barbara. He taught at and Learn Series, noon-1 p.m., 3:10 p.m., April 13,102 Murray Chicago, at North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the University of Florida before April 12, Bodwell Lounge, Maine Hall. x2970. going to Santa Barbara in 1985. Gunn is the author of several books, the Center for the Arts. x4014. most recent being Beyond Solidarity: Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World.

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Early last fall, an overcrowded student parking lot on campus caused vehicles to be parked on the grass. Public Safety Officer Paul Paradis surveyed the situa­ tion and knew what had to be done. Stakes and yellow plastic tape were just the ticket. “It didn’t make sense to write tickets,” Paradis says. “That many people parking on the grass was an indication of a larger problem. We began by taping off the area (to let people know what was expected), and ended up eventually removing the stakes and tape without further problems.” After a quarter-century in community policing, Paradis believes in helping people understand poli­ cies - and the need to enforce them. He also believes in the power of problem solving. “We are moving to make parking rules more consistent and, as we look to the future, to find long­ term solutions,” says Paradis, the newly named manager of Parking Services, now a division of Student Affairs. “I hope to raise people’s awareness Paul Paradis Photo by Monty Rand of the problems and their need to assist in making whether people come to campus at all.” solutions work.” Paradis’ interest in community service stems from his upbringing. Paradis’ philosophy is in keeping with the new direction of He grew up in a military family. His parents are Old Town natives. Parking Services. The unit is now independent of Public Safety and, “Being a career marine officer, my father instilled in us at a while responsible for parking management across campus, it is young age the importance of service and sense of community. I aligned closer than ever with the the largest segment of the chose community policing over the military,” says Paradis, who University community - students. It even has a new home in the received an associate degree in law enforcement at Bangor Union. Community College in 1974. While enforcement of parking policies remains a responsibility, Paradis’ career in law enforcement started in Old Town in 1975. Parking Services will now play an increasing role in community He served as patrol sergeant for eight years before being named building on campus. Whether in developing parking policies or chief of police in Machias in 1987. addressing issues, community involvement is key, he says. Two and a half years later, Paradis was tapped by the Maine Drug It’s important to bring groups and other members of the campus Enforcement Agency to work out of Bucks Harbor, then Bangor. By community together “to make people aware and to promote under­ 1994, Paradis was working for the Kennebec County Sheriff’s standing of others’ needs,” then come to consensus about “what’s Department, assigned to Maine Revenue Services to supervise an correct for the community as a whole,” says Paradis. investigative unit. Paradis joined the University community as a patrol officer in His interest in crime analysis drew Paradis to UMaine Public 1999. He has worked patrols around the clock on campus, on foot Safety almost three years ago. He first applied his analytical and in a vehicle, and has developed a sense of UMaine public safety approach to problem solving last fall, when he was assigned to in general, and parking in particular. parking enforcement. Issues pertinent to Paradis: the availability of parking spaces in “I’m now drawing on a lot of the same problem-solving skills relation to the permits sold; the proximity of student parking to resi­ (learned in law enforcement) to meet the diverse needs of the dence halls; illegal, short-term parking in fire lanes and parking community,” he says. “It all involves listening to people to address designated for persons with disabilities. their problems, as well as their concerns for a safe community.” During the busiest hours on campus, 7 a.m.-5 p.m., one of This semester, Parking Services has been headquartered in an Paradis’ primary concerns is with illegal parking in centrally located office on the lower level of the Union. This fall, when the Union lots that causes overcrowding and congestion. The result is a higher renovation and expansion project is complete, Parking Services will incidence of fender-bender accidents, he says. have a new venue in the facility. Exploring ways to promote parking in outlying lots is a priority “The benefit is that this location is in the hub of campus activity,” for Paradis. In addition, he hopes to expand the responsibilities of says Paradis. “It is more centrally located for the majority of the two full-time parking enforcement officers to include motorist assis­ University community.” tance. Parking Services, open 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday, provides “We want to provide a quality service by (facilitating) the ability parking decals, temporary permits, and maps for visitors and of people on campus to access the places they work, live and visit. members of the University community. Its responsibilities for The goal is to make their experience on campus as good and as safe parking management include making the necessary arrangements as possible. The goal is to make it so parking doesn’t enter into the for event parking. equation of (what they’re going to find when they get to campus or)

6 * Maine Perspective • March 26, 2001 Structural integrity Graduate Student Focus Since the age of 12, Alina Petrell has been a volunteer working on construction Studying projects for her church. But it wasn’t until a high school teacher recommended she marine policy look into civil engineering that Petrell turned her avocation into an academic on Capitol Hill career. Deirdre Gilbert of Brewer, a master’s “I like dealing with structures because degree student in marine policy, has been of their order,” says Petrell, a senior who awarded the prestigious Dean John A. Alina Petrell will graduate in December. “In my first Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship by the civil engineering course, we had labs in The U ndergrad National Sea Grant College Program. which we were breaking wood and Hundreds of graduate students from E xperience making concrete. It all grabs you right throughout the country competed for the away.” 10 positions available in the U.S. Congress and 20 in the Executive UMaine was the natural choice for Petrell, she says. The Milford Branch. Gilbert is working in Washington, D.C. in Congressman Tom native was familiar with the University and the reputation of its Alien’s office for one year. academic programs. She and her sister Keturah, now a junior in Tom Allen is the Democratic co-chair of the House Oceans secondary education, used to ride their bikes to campus in the summer. Caucus, a bipartisan effort to increase the House of Representatives’ “I like the civil engineering faculty. They are very friendly and awareness of important issues in ocean policy and to advance ocean seem to have fun, but they’re also serious researchers,” Petrell says. legislation. During the 106th Congress, the Caucus focused on issues Since her second semester on campus, Petrell has worked as an of security, governance, biology and pollution. As a fellow in Tom undergraduate research assistant in the lab of Associate Professor Eric Alien’s office, Gilbert will assist with Caucus activities in the 107th Landis. In the lab in Boardman Hall, they study the microstructure of Congress. concrete and wood. In particular, Petrell has been researching the Gilbert received an A.B. in biology and environmental studies from porosity of concrete and the mechanics of cracking. Bowdoin College in 1995. During her undergraduate years, she also “It is really great experience,” she says. “Working in research, you studied marine biology and rainforest ecology in Australia through have to constantly think. You’re usually not doing the same thing the School for International Training, and completed a research every day. As an undergraduate, I never expected to be in a research project on “Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Closures in the East lab, but the extra learning experience has been a supplement to my Coast Prawn Trawling Fishery.” classes.” In the past few years, Gilbert has been involved in two projects that “Learning continuously” is what’s best, says Petrell, who carries a combined her background in science with her interest in marine 3.94 average. Her goal is to be a structural engineer. ▲ policy. She conducted research for a U.S. Economic Development Administration project on the collapse of the New England ground­ fish industry. She also assisted in the shoreline ecology program CENTER FOR developed at Bowdoin College to mitigate the effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. For her master’s thesis research, Gilbert has developed a model to assess the impact of marine sanctuaries and other closed areas on TEACHING groundfish populations and the fisheries they support. EXCELLENCE Gilbert is looking forward to the Knauss Fellowship program to gain practical experience in resource management. “I have had a The Center for Teaching Excellence, 212 Crossland Hall, is a resource long-standing interest in human impacts on the marine environment for faculty at the University of Maine. Our mission is to promote contin­ uing improvement in the quality of teaching and learning at UMaine. and the issues of effective resource management,” Gilbert says. “I (www.umaine.edu/teaching) believe that the next logical step in my educational and professional development is to acquire some experience working on similar issues TEACHING LINKS at the federal level. Working in Congressman Allen’s office will The topic for this issue is mid-semester evaluations. provide me with an excellent opportunity to do this.” ▲ http:www.princeton.edu/~aiteachs/handbook On the Princeton University site, click VII "Evaluating and Improving Your Teaching," this will take you to a discussion of methods for obtaining student feedback: “Mid-semester Evaluations"; use of evaluation cards; and a 20th Professional Employee Achievement Awards colleague's visit. The Professional Employees Advisory Council (PEAC) seeks to raise the awareness of the campus community about the contributions that http:www.psu.edu/celt/assessment.shtml represented and non-represented professional employees make to the Scroll to the middle of the page and click "Collecting midsemester feedback." quality, diversity and overall mission of the University. Nominations are This site from Penn State offers advice on open-ended questionnaires and the sought of professional employees whose actions and activities above "minute paper,” as well as information on how to analyze the feedback you and beyond normal work responsibilities have provided outstanding receive from your students. service to their fields, to UMaine or to the community as a whole. http://aer.arizona.edu/welcome.asp Awards are presented at the annual spring employee banquet. At the Arizona homepage, click "Documents." There are many articles listed Nomination forms are available from Kay Hyatt, Chair, PEAC Awards here on using evaluations; start with "A Short Guide to Evaluating Teaching," Committee, 129 Shibles Hall, 581-2761; [email protected]. and then explore. There's a lot of information here. Deadline for receiving nominations is April 13.

March 26, 2001 • Maine Perspective • 7 of professional contacts is strong and the cama­ Promoted to professor raderie enjoyable. Moreover, since both forest prod­ Fl In F o c us Liberal Arts and Sciences ucts and pulp and paper are important to the state Office o economy, the support for our programs is high.” David Batuski has been promoted to professor of physics. Batuski Dea received his Ph.D. in physics from Francis Drummond has been I the University of New Mexico in promoted to professor of insect Mai 1986, and joined the UMaine ecology/entomology. Drummond grar community two years later. His received his Ph.D. in biological Trus research focuses on observations sciences from the University of P of distances of clusters of Rhode Island in 1986, and joined prof galaxies to trace large-scale struc­ the University of Maine community stra ture of the universe. Batuski studies the correlation of two years later. In his research, judg the internal properties of galaxy clusters with loca­ Drummond focuses on computer simulation modeling one tions of the clusters relative to larger structures of insect population dynamics, pollination ecology and con' (superclusters), and observes the dynamics of clus­ insect pest management. He received UMaine’s adv: ters in very dense superclusters. Since 1989, Sustainable Agriculture Award last year, and the University of mos Batuski repeatedly has been a visiting astronomer at Lindberg Grant Award in 1990. Drummond says he I Meudon Observatory, France. Over three years, 1985 conducts entomological research during the summer Maine Faculty tern 88, he received the Thomas L. Popejoy Prize for in some of the most beautiful places in Maine. In the futu Outstanding Dissertation in Sciences/Engineering at classroom, he enjoys the enthusiasm of his students nity University of New Mexico. Of his work, Batuski notes: in introductory Entomology. "We have a great depart­ Tenured and/or thei "My constant challenge is finding ways to help ment with both brilliant and nice faculty,” he says. on t empower students to have nearly as much fun with Promoted their learning (as I do with teaching). Doing research Promoted to professor with tenure involving collaborating with astronomers elsewhere in the U.S. and the world, using some of the largest Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture 2000-2001 telescopes available, and finding some of the largest Douglas Gardner has been structures that exist in the universe, is also quite the promoted to professor of wood thrill. I am especially delighted that I can do all this science, with tenure. The UMaine within the collegial atmosphere and great natural and alumnus received a Ph.D. in wood social environment that we have here at the science and technology from them do quite well after they leave the University ai University of Maine." Mississippi State University in it is always enjoyable to hear from them that their 1985. He returned to his alma time here contributed in some way to their success mater in 1998. As a senior scien­ he says. “In addition, I enjoy the constant learning Nathan Godfried has been promoted to professor of that is a part of being a teacher and researcher. history. Godfried received a Ph.D. in history from the tist in the Advanced Wood Composite Center, Gardner’s research, teaching and Much of that learning comes from interacting with University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980, and joined colleagues, and business men and women.’’ the UMaine faculty in 1995. Godfried specializes in service activities focus on polymer and interfacial science aspects of wood-polymer hybrid composite 20th-century U.S. history, and the history of mass Education and Human Development media, labor history and popular culture. Currently, he materials. He also is involved in research in the areas is working on a book exploring the relationship of adhesion science, composites from recycled wood Edward Jadallah has been between American workers, political radicals, and and fibers, and the analysis of volatile organic promoted to associate profess racial minorities and broadcasting during the 20th compound emissions from wood composite of education, with tenure. Jada century. Of his work, Godfried says it is particularly processing. The 1992 Cahn Award winner is a received a Ph.D. from Ohio Sta rewarding “helping graduate and undergraduate member of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society, University in 1984. Before com students to discover the excitement of engaging in and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. Gardner to UMaine in 1995, Jadallah w. historical research.” says he likes working at the cutting edge of basic and at Bowling Green State Univers applied research, and teaching students who become where he was nominated twice professionals in the forest products field. the Master Teacher Award. Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture Jadallah’s research focuses on the ways teachers Robert Rice has been promoted Promoted to associate professor with tenure construct and apply their understandings of teachir and learning through reflective practice. Of particul; to professor of wood science. Business, Public Policy and Health Rice joined the University of interest is the constant challenge of learning, deve Maine community in 1990, two Richard Borgman has been oping and applying a growing knowledge base in th years after receiving a Ph.D. in promoted to associate professor field of teacher education. forest products from Virginia of finance, with tenure. Borgman Polytechnic Institute and State joined the UMaine community a Engineering year after receiving a Ph.D. in University. His research focuses Peggy Agouris has been promo finance from the University of on forest products, and pulp and to associate professor of spati Florida in 1994. His expertise is paper marketing and management. Other areas of information science and engi­ in financial institutions, asset interest are wood rheology and hydrothermal stresses neering, with tenure. Agouris securitization, security valuation in wood. Rice is vice president of the Society of Wood received a Ph.D. in digital imag and portfolio management. His goal is to begin a Science and Technology, the professional association analysis from Ohio State research agenda in international finance, particularly of wood scientists in the United States, and has University in 1992, and joined the development of financial institutions in developing served as a board member of the Forest Products UMaine faculty three years late economies. In 1994, Borgman was an invited partici­ Society. On campus, Rice chairs the Faculty Senate’s Her research focuses on digita pant in the Financial Management Association Budget and Institutional Planning Committee. Of his image analysis, remote sensing, digital photogram­ Doctoral Seminar. On campus, he was named an work at the University, one of the centers of forestry metry and spatiotemporal information systems. Outstanding Faculty Member by All Maine Women and and forest products training and research in the Among Agouris’ top honors are the 1997 NSF Senior Skulls honor societies. Borgman says he United States, Rice notes: “We have a long tradition CAREER Award in Computer and Information Scien enjoys watching students mature and develop intellec­ of producing graduates who achieve prominence and Engineering, and the 1996 VI Talbert Abrams tually during their time at the University. “Many of within the state and nationally. As such, the network Award for the best photogrammetric publication of

8 . Maine Perspective . March 26, 2001 Fl \ n F o c us IIIK THE UNIVERSITY OF 5703 Alumni Hall Orono, Maine 04469-5703 Office of the President Teh 207-581-1512 MAINE Fax: 207-581-1517

Dear Colleagues: 1 aW ve^pleased to announce the names of University of Maine faculty members recently promoted and of those granted tenure by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. Promotion and tenure are significant milestones in a professor's career. They are not achieved without demon­ strating Extraordinary excellence and professionalism, as judged bv tt>e most discerning of critics: one’s students and one’s%eprs*’ Both tenure and promotion are major votes of confidence in those who keep the lamp of learning lit, who University of advance the frontiers of knowledge, and who tackle society’s most challenging problems. I congratulate those who have been promoted and granted Maine Faculty tenure, and offer best wishes for continued success in the future. I am sure that each member of the campus commu­ Tenured and/or nity v^joi^ne in congratulating these faculty members on their commitment and service to the University of Maine, and on their dedication to higher education. Promoted ___ Sincerely,

2000-2001 Peter S. Hoff President

Maine’s Land Grant and Sea Grant University A Member of the University ofMaine System them do quite well after they leave the University and year, by the American Society for Photogrammetry and it is always enjoyable to hear from them that their Remote Sensing. UMaine’s College of Engineering time here contributed in some way to their success,” cited her for the Early Career Research Award in he says. “In addition, I enjoy the constant learning 1998. “I love my job because it allows me to combine that is a part of being a teacher and researcher. several exciting heterogeneous activities. As a faculty Much of that learning comes from interacting with * •fnember I teach, advise, perform research, manage colleagues, and business men and women.” my projects, publish papers, travel to present my find­ ings, participate in campus activities. Plus, I really Education and Human Development enjoy the interaction with young people, and the competitive and challenging nature of pursuing innova­ Edward Jadallah has been tive research activities.” promoted to associate professor of education, with tenure. Jadallah received a Ph.D. from Ohio Stat# Liberal Arts and Sciences University in 1984. Before coming Martha McNamara has been to UMaine in 1995, Jadallah was promoted to associate professor at Bowling Green State University, of history, with tenure. McNamara where he was nominated twice for joined the faculty in 1994, the Master Teacher Award. completing her Ph.D. in American Jadallah’s research focuses on the ways teachers and New England Studies at construct and apply their understandings of teaching Boston University the following and learning through reflective practice. Of particular year. McNamara’s research interest is the constant challenge of learning, devel­ focuses on cultural history, New England history, oping and applying a growing knowledge base in the architectural history and material culture. Her honors field of teacher education. include the J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities, 1996-1997; Engineering and the DeMontequin Prize for the best paper in American colonial planning, Society for American City Peggy Agouris has been promote *^nd Regional Planning History, 8th Biennial Meeting, to associate professor of spatial 1999. “Teaching students to think critically about the information science and engi­ past is one of the most satisfying aspects of my posi­ neering, with tenure. Agouris tion as a faculty member,” McNamara says. “I partic­ received a Ph.D. in digital image ularly enjoy helping students to develop their analysis from Ohio State analytical skills while we explore the fascinating University in 1992, and joined the stories of past people, places and events. I also love UMaine faculty three years later. ^researching and writing about the physical landscapes Her research focuses on digital w that people have inhabited. I am intrigued by ques­ image analysis, remote sensing, digital photogram­ tions of how past cultures have shaped and been metry and spatiotemporal information systems. shaped by their physical environments. Having the Among Agouris’ top honors are the 1997 NSF opportunity to integrate these research interests into CAREER Award in Computer and Information Science my classroom teaching has also been a wonderful and Engineering, and the 1996 VI Talbert Abrams experience.” Award for the best photogrammetric publication of the Nancy Hall has been promoted to Joseph Kelley is professor of THE UNIVERSITY OF Orono, Maine 04469-5703 associate professor of communi­ marine geology, with tenure. Tel: 207-581-1512 MAINE Fax: 207-581-1517 cation sciences and disorders, Kelley has been an adjunct with tenure. Hall came to UMaine faculty member since 1982. He a year after receiving a Ph.D. in joined the Department of sed to announce the names of University of communication sciences from Geological Sciences as a tenure­ imbers recently promoted and of those Case Western Reserve University. track faculty member in 1999. y the University of Maine System Board of Her major area of interest is stut­ Kelley holds a Ph.D. from Lehigh tering, and how aspects of University. His research focuses i tenure are significant milestones in a language development and use impact the fluency of on coastal and marine geology. Kelley seeks to under­ sr. They are not achieved without demon- speech production. Her research examines the nature stand sea-level change and the response of shore­ nary excellence and professionalism, as of speech disruptions in normal and disordered lines to that change since the last Ice Age. He also is >st discerning of critics: one’s students and language by studying the speech of young children. interested in the way society responds to climate and h tenure and promotion are major votes of She hopes to identify linguistic factors that may be sea-level change. Among Kelley’s many honors are >se who keep the lamp of learning lit, who used in predicting which youngsters are at risk for the 1998 Maine Audubon Society Environmental tiers of knowledge, and who tackle society’s developing stuttering, and how this knowledge may be Award and the 1990 Down East Magazine ; problems. used to improve therapeutic techniques. Hall was Environmental Award. Kelley says he became a faculty those who have been promoted and granted among the first in the nation to receive the Specialty member “because I enjoy working on research prob­ • best wishes for continued success in the Recognition in Fluency Disorders from the American lems all over the world and collaborating with scien­ that each member of the campus commu- Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Of her work, tists from other countries. I am also excited to make n congratulating these faculty members on Hall notes: “Engaging in the process of learning has teaching and advising students part of my occupation. it and service to the University of Maine, and always sustained me. Mentoring student growth is I share my experiences in research and government in to higher education. one of the most satisfying aspects of my work.” with students in my classes and that makes those experiences all the more rewarding.” Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture Mary Jane Perry is professor of Peter S. Hoff President Jonathan Rubin has been marine sciences and oceanog­ raphy, with tenure. Perry has a Maine’s Land Grant and Sea Grant University promoted to associate professor A Member ofthe University ofMaine System in the Margaret Chase Smith Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution Center and Resource Economics of Oceanography, University of , by the American Society for Photogrammetry and and Policy, with tenure. In 1993, California-San Diego. She joined lote Sensing. UMaine’s College of Engineering Rubin received a Ph.D. in agricul­ the University of Maine faculty in 1 her for the Early Career Research Award in tural economics from the 1999. Perry is an expert in 8. “I love my job because it allows me to combine University of California-Davis. He biological and optical oceanog­ iral exciting heterogeneous activities. As a faculty joined the University of Maine raphy. The research in her lab focuses on the use of iber I teach, advise, perform research, manage faculty in 1998. Rubin specializes in environmental optics to study phytoplankton, the one-celled plants of irojects, publish papers, travel to present my find- economics and policy. In 1997, he was cited for the the ocean. Long-term autonomous observations of , participate in campus activities. Plus, I really Outstanding Published Research Award of the phytoplankton are critical to understanding the y the interaction with young people, and the Western Agricultural Economics Association for ocean's response to climate change. Perry, the recip­ petitive and challenging nature of pursuing innova­ “Bankable Permits for the Control of Environmental ient of an NSF Superior Accomplishment Award, is research activities.” Pollution.” Rubin serves as a member of the coordinator of a National Ocean Partner’s Program Committee on Transportation Energy, Transportation project to miniaturize optical sensors for autonomous Liberal Arts and Sciences Research Board of the National Research Council. He ocean observations. This summer at the Darling also is on the editorial council of the Journal of Center, she will direct an internationally recognized Martha McNamara has been Environmental Economics and Management. graduate summer institute in optical oceanography. promoted to associate professor of history, with tenure. McNamara joined the faculty in 1994, Granted tenure at the rank of professor Promoted to Extension professor completing her Ph.D. in American Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture John Jemison has been promoted and New England Studies at Peter Jumars is professor of to Extension professor. Jemison Boston University the following marine sciences and oceanog­ joined the UMaine community in year. McNamara’s research raphy, with tenure. Jumars has a 1991, the same year he received ses on cultural history, New England history, Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution a Ph.D. from Penn State litectural history and material culture. Her honors of Oceanography, University of University. His Extension educa­ ide the J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in California-San Diego. He joined tion and applied research History of Art and the Humanities, 1996-1997; the University of Maine faculty in programs focus on helping agricul­ the DeMontequin Prize for the best paper in 1999. Jumars’ research focuses tural producers and homeowners irican colonial planning, Society for American City on the interactions of marine minimize their impacts on Maine’s surface and Regional Planning History, 8th Biennial Meeting, organisms with the abiotic environment at the level of groundwater resources. He has worked with growers 9. “Teaching students to think critically about the the individual, identifying, modeling and quantifying to make better use of on-farm nutrients, minimize t is one of the most satisfying aspects of my posi- important interactions. Of his work, Jumars notes: “I pesticide use, and increase cooperation among as a faculty member," McNamara says. “I partic- get to choose the topics of my research. I get to do it potato and dairy operations. Jemison has been recog­ ly enjoy helping students to develop their with smart colleagues, and I get the opportunity to nized for his scholarship with the 1999 Northeast lytical skills while we explore the fascinating help make students better educated than I was and Branch American Society of Agronomy Extension ies of past people, places and events. I also love unique in their combinations of skills. Nothing rejuve­ Industry Award and the 1996 Maine Sustainable “arching and writing about the physical landscapes nates like interacting with smart students.” Jumars is Agriculture Award. Jemison says the most enjoyable people have inhabited. I am intrigued by ques- the recipient of the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Medal from aspects of his job include generating applied research s of how past cultures have shaped and been the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography based on grower needs, and seeing the practices ped by their physical environments. Having the for breadth and quality of interdisciplinary research. used on farms. He appreciates the opportunity to ortunity to integrate these research interests into He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union for work with producers and land owners, and to work as classroom teaching has also been a wonderful fostering interdisciplinary interaction, and president of part of a team with dedicated colleagues bringing erience.” the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. about change in Maine.

March 26, 2001. Maine Perspective • 9 The CUTTING EDGE

University of Maine Research on the Frontiers of Science

Automated Analysis Prestigious NSF award for composites research Video cameras provide security for banks, government buildings A $375,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will and retail stores. However, it takes a human to monitor the screens enable University engineers to test the use of sophisticated electronic and alert safety personnel in the event of a problem. A research team embedded sensors in bridges and other structures made with led by UMaine’s Department of Spatial Information Science and advanced composite materials. Roberto Lopez-Anido, a faculty Engineering (SIE) has received a $500,168 National Science member in Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Advanced Foundation grant to develop new automated image analysis tech­ Engineered Wood Composites Center (AEWC), received the five- niques that get information quickly to those who need it. year NSF CAREER Award. Their work may also squeeze more information out of images Lopez-Anido is the fourth UMaine engineer since 1997 to receive collected over the years for military and civilian purposes. It could this prestigious NSF award, designed to support research and promote have implications for traffic management, agricultural assessments, improvements in education. land use planning and environmental monitoring. “This program will capitalize on the regional industrial thrust in Peggy Agouris, assistant professor of SIE, leads the project with composites while focusing on a framework for using advanced fiber­ two other UMaine faculty members, Kate Beard and Anthony optic sensors,” says Lopez-Anido. “The Maine boat-building industry Stefanidis. They are collaborating with faculty members at two other and the paper industry use fiber-reinforced polymer composite tech­ universities, University of California-Riverside and Penn State. nologies in corrosive processing environments. This industrial trend Three UMaine graduate students - Kristin Eickhorst of Kansas makes composite materials one of the key target areas in Maine’s City, Panayotis Partsinevelos of Greece and Joshua King of Hollis - Science and Technology Action Plan. The plan’s Composite also are working on the project. Materials Living Lab will stimulate innovation in construction and “The general idea is to come up with a framework and tools that structural rehabilitation using composites.” will allow us to manage information contained in time varying Lopez-Anido’s research objectives include the placement of fiber­ geospatial data sets,” says Agouris. optic sensors into composite materials and the application of For example, satellite photos of a city taken over a period of years controlled damage tests to determine how the sensors respond to can reveal information about land use patterns, vegetation changes specific levels of stress. The results will provide researchers and and development. “Things change over time,” Agouris explains, “and industry with a reliable method for monitoring the durabi lity of fiber- this change is inherent in the data set. Our goal is to develop a means reinforced polymer composite materials. to make this change explicit and to communicate it to the people who are interested in this information. This is not just about detecting the Blooming success change. It is to develop a framework that is independent of peoples’ This spring, Maine gardeners can brighten their gardens with a new views as to what changes.” yellow flower produced at the University. The new plant is a cultivar Part of that framework is a type of summary that is known among of the common black-eyed Susan, a type of daisy (Rudbeckia hirta). information management specialists as a “metadata file.” It includes The new plant has been named the Plainview Farm Daisy. It details such as the source of the data, the scale and a statement about reaches as tall as three feet and can be propagated by seeds or divi­ how accurate the data are, Agouris says. “We want to go one level sion. It grows in sites that have full sunlight and well-drained soil. higher and create metadata files that will contain information such as Samples have been planted at the Littlefield Ornamentals Trial shorter versions of the data sets.” Garden on campus for the upcoming growing season. The new image analysis tools, Agouris says, will also be developed The typical black-eyed Susan has one row of petals arrayed in a with the ability to predict trends and events based on the past. “You disk around a dark circular eye at the center. The new variety has may know that a flood has occurred in a valley and destroyed things. layers of petals that give the flower a full, rounded appearance. If we find sequential patterns in our data, we may be able to use that According to Donglin Zhang of the Landscape Horticulture information to make rules for the future. In another location where a Program, the new flower is a tender perennial that has been produced situation has not fully developed, we should be able to make a predic­ through 11 years of breeding in a Maine garden, the Trial Garden and tion in which we have strong confidence.” the Clapp Greenhouse on the campus. The project developed out of previous research conducted by Several hundred plants will be made available through the Agouris and her colleagues at UC-Riverside and Penn State. In this Plainview Farm nursery in North Yarmouth. County offices of the project, they will collaborate with the National Agricultural Statistical UMaine Cooperative Extension also will have a few plants for testing Service of the USDA, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency of under a variety of growing conditions throughout the state. the Department of Defense and BAE Systems Inc. Another new plant, named UMaine Daisy (Rudbeckia hirta Partners from UC-Riverside specialize in data that varies in time ‘UMaine’) is in the process of selection and evaluation. The flower and location. The Penn State scientists focus on information manage­ head of UMaine Daisy is also derived from black-eyed Susan, but it ment frameworks. has an invisible black center. The flower appears as a yellow mum. Researchers also will work with the U.S. Army Topographic UMaine’s Landscape Horticulture Program is actively developing Engineering Center, an industrial organization, and the non-profit new cultivars of native plants in cooperation with the Maine OpenGIS Consortium, which works closely with vendors of Landscape and Nursery Association. geographic information system products. The project is expected to conclude in 2003. For more on these and other stories about University of Maine research, written by Public Affairs science writer Nick Houtman, see the MaineSci Web page (www.umaine.edu/mainesci/).

10 . Maine Perspective , March 26, 2001 E.A.T. Foreto (postdoc Judith Round, assistant to the dean Lad talks with ABC News in Biosystems Science), and director, and coordinator of ABC News talked with Robert Lad, director of the UMaine P.B. Brown (Purdue communications, College of Natural Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology, about new sensor University) and R.C. Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture: technology that may provide an early warning of infection in Bayer, Biosystems "Television Comes to Bangor: A people. Lad worked with Richard Riker of the Maine Medical Science and School of Conversation with Industry Center to test the new sensor, which measures nitrous oxide (NO) Marine Sciences: “The Pioneers," Maine History, 39 (Winter in human breath, on school children and hospital patients. Riker's Effects of Krill 200001). research has found that increases in NO levels are associated Hydrolysate- with illness in both groups. A story on the subject is in New Supplemented Soya- Gary Schilmoeller, associate Scientist magazine. Bean Based Diets on professor of child development and the Growth Colouration, family relations, and Kathryn Zhang talks to Boston Globe Amino and Fatty Acid Schilmoeller, adjunct assistant A Boston Globe columnist spoke March 13 with Donglin Zhang of Profiles of Juvenile professor of human development: the landscape horticulture faculty about a new flower that has American Lobster,” "Filling a Void: Facilitating Family been developed at UMaine. The Plainview Farm Daisy is a cultivar Aquaculture nutrition, Support Through Networking for of the black-eyed Susan. 7:3343 (2001). Children with a Rare Disorder," Family Science Review, 13(34):224- National Geographic taps Sandweiss Jeffrey Wilhelm, associate 33 (December 2000). Dan Sandweiss, Anthropology and Quaternary & Climate Studies, did a phone professor of literacy education: interview Feb. 20 with Brian Hall, a researcher for National Geographic "Undoing the Great Grammatical Thomas Sandford, associate Television, providing background information for an upcoming documentary on Scam!" Voices from the Middle, 8(3) professor of civil and environmental the Inca Empire. (March 2001). engineering, and visiting honorary professor at The University of Kaye cited by Money.net Abigail Garthwait, assistant Birmingham, England: "Distance Comments on older adult relocation trauma by Lenard Kaye, Visiting Libra professor of instructional tech­ Learning: The New Geotechnical Professor in the College of Business, Public Policy and Health and the School nology: "Hypermedia Composing: Graduate School," Geo-Strata, 14 of Social Work, are included in an article on eldercare housing issues in the Questions Arising from Writing in 17 (January 2001). Feb. 5 issue of Money.net: The financial community. Three Dimensions," Language Arts, Gallagher in Natural New England 78(3) (January 2001). Merry Gallagher, Ph.D. student in biological sciences, was profiled in the University Research Section of Natural New England. The article, "Tracking Eel Movements in Maine Lakes," appeared in the March/April issue. Peace Corps at the University of Maine The Peace Corps Office on campus is located in the Career Center, third Cavallari in Concord Monitor floor of Chadbourne Hall. UMaine senior Josh Anchors is the Maine Peace The Feb. 25 Maine Sunday Telegram included a Concord (N.H.) Monitor story Corps representative. Call 581-1366 for more information or to set up an about UMaine student Benjamin Cavallari, who spent three months as part of interview for "the toughest job you’ll ever love.” a UMaine-led research expedition to Antarctica. Cavallari, a Deering, N.H., native who transferred from the University of New Hampshire last year to study with scientists in the Institute for Quaternary and Climate Studies, had only VOLUMES been on one airplane trip before going to Antarctica in October.

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Obligation and Opportunity: B 0 0 aaaaaaaaaaa Single Maritime Women in Boston, 1870-1930 by Betsy Beattie New & Noteworthy at the University Bookstore (Mcgill-Queen’s University Press 2000) Notes: April is National Poetry Month. Enjoy 25 percent off poetry books. April 18 is the Graduation Fair. In the years between Canada's Confederation April 26-28 is the Indoor Yard Sale, with huge discounts on books, (1867) and the Depression, nearly 500,000 Maritimers clothing and gift items. left their homes to work in the United States or other Textbook requisitions for Summer Sessions due April 1. parts of Canada. Many of them were women. Despite The Supreme Court by William Rehnquist, Knopf (2001). The Supreme Court reports of danger and hardship, tens of thousands of single maritime begins with William Rehnquist’s introduction to the court as a law clerk in women went to work in Boston between 1870 and 1930. In Obligation 1952. From there, it describes the court's early evolution and function in our and Opportunity, Betsy Beattie examines how the exodus of these young democracy. Finally, it explains how the court works today. Fifteen years women affected the Maritimes, and sheds light on their new lives in after the first publication, William Rehnquist has added new chapters and substantially revised his classic work on the Supreme Court. Boston. In Boston, the single female migrants from rural families found an Kissing the Virgin’s Mouth by Donna Gershten, Harper Collins (2001). urban environment and various work cultures according to different Winner of the first Bellwether Prize for Fiction, this debut novel offers a rare window into another culture. Its irresistible hero, Magda, takes the reader into occupations. Beattie examines the experiences of these Maritime her Mexican world for an unforgettable experience. The invincible, yet fallible women within the changing socioeconomic conditions of the late 19th- Magda climbs from the poor barrio of a coastal Mexican town to American and early 20th-century North America. affluence with passion and strength. Kissing the Virgin's Mouth is a novel of Beattie’s research for the book included information from oral inter­ love, survival and the struggles of women. According to Barbara Kingsolver, it views, diaries, letters, written recollections, census data and other histor­ also “sets the standard for what we’re defining as a literature of social respon­ sibility.” ical sources. The result is a book that provides insights into family history, women’s studies, and labor and migration history. It also is an Feeling Sorry for Celia by Jaclyn Moriarty, St. Martin’s Press (2001). This important key to understanding the political economy and culture of fabulous debut is a funny, touching, revealing story written entirely in the form of letters, messages and postcards, that captures with rare acuity female out-migration in post-Confederation Maritime history. friendship, and the bonding and parting that occur as we grow. Feeling Sorry Beattie is the Canadian studies librarian at Fogler Library. This is her for Celia is a candid novel that reminds us that the roller coaster ride of being first book. a teenager is every bit as fun and as harrowing as we remember.

March 26, 2001. Maine Perspective . 11 Lenny Berry, education Virginia Gibson, associate professor specialist at the Center of MIS, was selected by the national for Community AAUW Educational Foundation to Inclusion, was among serve on its International 23 individuals selected Fellowships panel. The 20-person to participate in Project panel will meet in Washington, D.C. Leadership, a program March 16-17 to review and make of Administration on recommendations on awards. Developmental Disabilities, a nation­ Irv Kornfield, professor of zoology, wide program for School of Marine Sciences, Peter persons with disabili­ Smith, NSF Biological Sciences ties and family teaching fellow, Dan DenDanto, members of persons biological sciences graduate with disabilities. Alan research assistant, and Deborah Kurtz, project coordi­ Palman, Maine Warden Service, nator at CCI, attended presented a paper "DNA Match with Berry. Participation in the Probability Calculations in Wildlife project was competitive and limited Forensic Individualized Cases" at to individuals who have previously the annual meetings of the distinguished themselves as advo­ American Academy of Forensic The Maine Compost School took its internationally respected show on the cates and leaders in the disability Sciences, Feb. 23, Seattle. road last fall when its five members, including two University of Maine community. Participants in the Cooperative Extension educators, called class to order in Australia. The project attended a week-long, inten­ Deirdre Mageean, director of the teachers included Neal Hallee and Richard Verville of Cooperative Extension, sive class in Washington, D.C., that Margaret Chase Smith Center and William Seekins of the Maine Department of Agriculture, George McDonald of began Feb. 16. While there, they Associate Professor of Resource the State Planning Office and Mark King of the Department of Environmental met with national disability advocacy Economics and Policy, gave an Protection. The five presented technical papers at the “Compost 2000 Down leaders, congressional staff persons invited talk, "Human-Environment Under” conference in Melbourne and then taught the three-day compost and administrators of federal agen­ Interaction in Coastal Ecosystems: school to 34 municipal program staff, commercial composters and regulators. cies. They also learned skills that Population and Policy," to staff at In its 10 years of existence, the team has received awards from the Maine will help them to advocate more the NOAA (National Oceanic and legislature, the Governor’s office and the U.S. Environmental Protection effectively on a local, state and Atmospheric Administration) Coastal Agency. The Maine Compost School is taught four times a year at UMaine’s federal level regarding legislation Services Center in Charleston, S.C., Witter Teaching and Research Farm. and policies related to disability Feb. 26. issues. Berry will be attending a second session in July. Kathy Son, research associate at Peter Doucette, Ph.D. candidate Kathryn Schilmoeller, adjunct assis­ the Center for Community Inclusion, and graduate research assistant tant professor of human develop­ Professor Dennis Cox, Music, Maine's University Center for with the Department of Spatial ment, co-presented with M.M. Fox, presented a choral clinic for the Excellence in Developmental Information Science & Engineering, L.K. Paul, D. Van Lanker, S.R. choral music department at Oxford Disabilities Education, Research and is the recipient of the 2001 Willian Garrels, E. Florendo, and W.S. Hills Secondary School Feb. 28 in Service, presented a training A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship Brown of The Travis Institute, South Paris. In addition, Cox was program to rehabilitation counseling Award. Kristin Eickhorst, Ph.D. Pasadena, a poster, "Paralinguistic the guest conductor of the Western students at the University of student and graduate research Processing in Children with Callosal State College Choral Festival, held Southern Maine Feb. 9. assistant with the Department of Agenesis," at the annual meeting of March 5-6 in Gunnison, Colo. The "Opportunity, Choice and Self- Spatial Information Science & the International Neuropsychological University of Maine Singers, Advocacy in Person and Family Engineering, is the recipient of the Society, Chicago, February. conducted by Cox, performed in Centered Practices" focused on the 2001 Ta Liand Memorial concert at St. Peter's Church in East experiences of people with disabili­ Scholarship Award. Both scholar­ Associate Professor of Counselor Millinocket March 8. ties and their family members as ships are awarded by the American Education Sydney Thomas, with they encounter social, educational Society for Photogrammetry & Professor Piers Beirne, chair of Nancy Fishwick, associate and service delivery systems. Son Remote Sensing to support the Criminology at University of professor of nursing, presented also co-presented a training students’ Ph.D. studies under the Southern Maine, presented a paper, "Rural Women's Disclosure of session, with Laura Son, to medical supervision of Professor Peggy "Animal Abuse and Interhuman Abuse" on March 1 at Wellesley students at the University of New Agouris. Conflict," at the 2nd Annual Centers for Women, Wellesley England School of Osteopathic International Conference on Crime College, where she is serving as Medicine Feb. 27. "What We Want Nellie Orr, assistant professor of and Criminal Justice in the visiting scholar. Our Health Professionals to Know: kinesiology and physical education, Caribbean, Jamaica, Feb. 15. Osteopathic Approaches to Pediatric presented a paper, "Health Associate Professor Tim Cole and Populations" gave the medical Promotion Programming and Abigail Garthwait, assistant Assistant Professor Amy Fried of students an opportunity to learn Intervention Strategies," at the professor of instructional tech­ the Political Science Department from adolescents with disabilities Eastern District Association of the nology, presented a paper, presented "Contesting the about what is important to them as American Alliance for Health, "Integration or Inoculation?: Founders: Elite Rhetoric on the they grow and learn to negotiate the Physical Education, Recreation and Overview of Large-Scale Founders' Intentions During the healthcare and service delivery Dance conference, March 9, Professional Development Models," Clinton Impeachment Debate" at systems. Newport, R.l. The Eastern District at the Society for Information the Western Political Science includes 13 states. Orr represents Technology and Teacher Education Association Annual Meeting, March Beth Wiemann's composition Maine as one of two delegates to 2001 conference, March 9 in 15-17, Las Vegas. In addition, Fried Tightrope was selected for perfor­ the Representative Assembly and Orlando. Also attending the confer­ participated in a roundtable, "Social mance by the International serves on the Credential and ence from the College of Education Capital: Putnam's Retreat From Association for Women in Music. Elections Committee. At the end of and Human Development were Politics?" and Cole presented (with Selected from an international call March, Orr will attend the National Wayne Garthwait, educational tech­ Nancy Burgoyne of the University of for scores, the work for wind quintet Health, Physical Education, nology specialist, and James Verrill, Washington) "Shutdown in Seattle: will be performed at the National Recreation and Dance conference in project technologist. Media Representations of the World Museum for Women in Washington, Cincinnati, serving as a Maine dele­ Trade Organization Protests." D.C., this June. gate.

12 . Maine Perspective . March 26, 2001 Kelly receives Social Worker of the Year Award w e Remember Nancy Kelly, coordinator of field education at the School of Social Work, will receive the Social Worker of the Year Award for 2001 from the Maine Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Mildred “Brownie” Schrumpf Kelly shares the award with Shirley Rush, an assistant professor from Alumnus Mildred “Brownie” Schrumpf, Maine’s best-known food the University of Maine at Presque Isle. Both women are being recognized expert and columnist, died March 5 at the age of 98. for their work on behalf of persons with mental illness. The Readfield Depot native graduated from UMaine in 1925 with a Kelly and Rush develop and implement annual Mental Illness Awareness degree in home economics. Schrumpf was known in college as Week observances at their respective campuses. They have been instru­ mental in bringing together educational institutions, multiple disciplines, Brownie, a nickname taken from her family name, Brown. faculty, students, outside experts, consumer groups, local communities, It was at UMaine that she met her husband-to-be, William, an agri­ and mental health and human services agencies to raise awareness about cultural economics student who went on to be assistant agricultural the devastating effects of mental illness for individuals, their families and economist with the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. communities. Schrumpf spent seven years as assistant state 4-H leader, then as a Kelly and Rush will receive their awards at the Annual Conference of NASW Maine at the Samoset March 29. 4-H volunteer, giving countless demonstrations on cooking, sewing and housekeeping, cooking and canning. She remained actively involved in the University community as a home economics demonstrator at Farm and Home Week celebrations, and as a part-time instructor. Rockefeller Foundation grant Schrumpf’s food column in the Bangor Daily News debuted Aug. 31, continues culture revitalization 1951. For the next 40 years, she wrote her weekly column on a $50 typewriter she bought from the Maine Campus. Collections of her in Passamaquoddy communities recipes were published in two cookbooks. A grant from the Rockefeller Foundation will allow the Wabanaki For decades, Schrumpf was an active Alumni Association member, Center to continue its work on language and culture revitalization in known for her extensive knowledge of the University and its people. Passamaquoddy communities in the state. Schrumpf was described as “a UMaine institution, part of the idiom.” The three-year, $146,000 grant was given as part of the foundation’s Through the years, she was cited and honored time after time as “the Partnerships Affirming Community Transformation (PACT) program, state’s top food economist and unofficial ambassador of good eating.” which supports projects undertaken by artists and other cultural profes­ Her endless support of civic and church functions was as renowned sionals who contribute to social change. as her reputation for caring for friends and community members. She The grant builds on a theatre project on Native language issues that was so beloved by the Orono community that, in her later years, a was created by Gail Sockabasin, director of the Wabanaki Center, as a birthday party in her honor required traffic control. fellow in the Kellogg Foundation’s National Leadership Program. The personal and culinary papers of Brownie and William Schrumpf During the Kellogg fellowship, Sockabasin focused on the revitaliza­ were donated to Special Collections in 1998. An exhibit of a tum-of- tion of the Passamaquoddy language and culture. Toward this goal, she the-century farm kitchen, named in honor of Schrumpf, is in the Page recruited the help of the Headlines Theater for Living of Vancouver, Farm and Home Museum. It is something of a monument to her almost whose practice of forum theatre seemed to fit well with the exploration bigger-than-life presence. of issues of language loss and revitalization in Native communities. In this form of theatre, plays are developed that deal with important Marilyn Emerick cultural or social issues. Marilyn Emerick, the longtime administrative assistant in the English Working with Sockabasin on the grant project is Vera Francis, a Department, died Feb. 19. She was 70. UMaine graduate and Passamaquoddy who was part of the Marilyn, as she always wanted to be called by students and co­ Passamaquoddy players, the original theater group that organized under workers, devoted more than 30 years of service to the University, to the the Kellogg project. Francis is now working in the Native communities department, and to many generations of students. She usually ran the to help chart a direction for the Wabanaki Center’s involvement in main office of the English Department (the largest department in the Native language issues, while coordinating the Rockefeller project “We college) single-handedly, adeptly managing budgets, paperwork, Have to Find Our Voices: Transforming Maine’s Passamaquoddy advising assignments, add-drop, phone inquiries, copying for faculty Communities Through Theatre For Living.” and graduate students, typing of scholarly manuscripts, and social occa­ “Interactive theater implies that there will be a relationship between sions, including her famous holiday parties. the audience and the performers," says Francis. "When the play is One faculty member characterized Marilyn as the percussionist of the presented, there will be moments that the audience will be invited to English Department, not only because she deftly moved between two join the play, engage the performers, and offer new perspectives on any desks as she worked throughout the day, but because “no matter how portion of the play and perhaps move it toward a different solution.” out of tune we might get, she kept the beat.” Francis says this allows the audience members to be participants She often came in on weekends to set up seasonally appropriate deco­ rather than simply observers. “The audience is as much a part of the rations and get a head start on the weeks' work. Few people, except process as the people who are giving of their time, energy and creativity perhaps the late chair Ulrich Wicks, ever saw her arrive for work, to develop these plays," she says. "The play becomes a sharing of expe­ because it was always well before 6 a.m. She hardly ever lunched away riences, which will then hopefully help members of the audience move from her desk, and closed the office at 4:30 p.m. She worked until 4:30 toward resolving the struggles that are presented through the play.” the Friday afternoon before her death two days later. The Kellogg Foundation grant, awarded in 1997, allowed Sockabasin Many people were impressed with her courage and resolution during to do a play on culture and language at Pleasant Point, and to develop a a grave illness last year, which kept her out of work for several months. CD of Passamaquoddy language and songs. She says the Rockefeller Her determination to get back to the department was awe-inspiring. grant will allow her to continue her work of trying to strengthen the Marilyn is survived by her husband, Richard Emerick, professor connection between young Passamaquoddy and their culture through emeritus of anthropology and director emeritus of the Hudson Museum, the arts and a focus on the importance of the language. ▲ and other family members. March 26, 2001 • Maine Perspective • 13 Faces Behind the Places P ositions Available

Oliver Crosby graduated from the engineering college of the The following faculty and professional positions are currently available at the University in 1876. In 1882, he opened a small machine University of Maine. This list includes titles and contact information. shop in St. Paul and, three years later, saw the business Interested parties should consult either the University of Maine contact listed incorporated as the American Hoist and Derrick Co., one of for each open position or Web listing (www.umaine.edu/hr/jobs) to obtain a the largest engineering plants in the Northwest. His complete job announcement, including required qualifications. All positions company manufactured munitions extensively during World are full time, unless otherwise specified. Questions about search procedures War I, and furnished the U.S. government with modern should be directed to the Office of Equal Opportunity, 581-1226. machinery to construct the Panama Canal. Associate Professor of Theatre/Division Head, School of Performing Arts. Andrew Carnegie, capitalist, manufacturer and philanthropist, gave libraries to Review Began: March 15. Contact: Please send letter of application with state­ many towns and cities in the U.S. and Great Britain. UMaine’s first library was ment of teaching and leadership philosophy, curriculum vita, and names, located in Carnegie Hall in the 1903-1940s. This was one of only two given to addresses and telephone numbers of three references to: Professor Kristin educational institutions. It was built in recognition of the acceptance by the Langellier, Search Committee Chair, School of Performing Arts, 5788 Class of state legislature of the institution as a full public university. 1944 Hall, The University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5788. Health Information Coordinator, Student Health Services. Review Began: Dr. Lawrence Cutler received his bachelor’s degree from March 19. Salary Range: $35,000 to $37,000. Contact: Send letter of intent, the University in 1928 and his medical degree from Tufts resume, and names of three references to: Ency Whitehill, 5721 Cutler Health in 1932. He was appointed to the Board of Trustees in Center, Orono, ME 04469-5721. 1956 and named its president in 1963. Known for his interest in education at all levels, Cutler was a delegate to Staff Nurse, Student Health Services. Review Began: March 24. Salary the White House Conference on Education in 1955 and Range: $41,038 to $43,118. Contact: Send a letter of interest, a resume, served as chair of a Governor's Advisory Committee on and three references (including name, address and telephone number) to: Education. He received the Alumni Career Award in 1978. Cindy Perry, Student Health Services, Cutler Health Center, The University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5721. Arthur Deering headed the University’s College of Postdoctoral Research Associate, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Agriculture for nearly 20 years, retiring in 1957. In 1935, Biology. Review Began: May 1. Salary Range: $22,000 to $32,000. Contact: Epsilon Sigma Pi, a national honorary society, gave him a Send a cover letter and detailed curriculum vitae and arrange for three letters certificate for an "outstanding record of service to Maine of reference to be sent to: Mary Rumpho, Department of Biochemistry, agriculture." Born on a farm in Denmark, Maine, Deering Microbiology and Molecular Biology, 5735 Hitchner Hall, The University of graduated from the University in 1912. He received an Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5735 or by Email to: [email protected] or honorary degree from UMaine in 1934. A former call 207-581-2806, FAX 207-581-2801. Kennebec County Extension agent, Deering was named assistant director of Extension in 1927, director in 1930 INFORMATION ON OPENINGS FOR CLASSIFIED POSITIONS and, in 1933, became dean of the Agricultural College. Because most classified (hourly paid) positions are posted for brief time periods, it is not feasible to announce them in Maine Perspective. For updated Merritt Caldwell Fernald was the first faculty member hired. information on current classified positions available at UMaine, call the jobs He was a professor of mathematics. He also was line, 581-4567, or check the Web listing (www.umaine.edu/hr/jobs). UMaine’s second president, 1879-1893, who set the tone Application forms are available at: Personnel Services, 124 Corbett Hall, of the University. He was a central figure during the first University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469. half century. When he retired in 1908, the University gave him an honorary degree. He continued as an emeritus The University of Maine is an Equal Opportunity/AfUrmative Action Employer. professor of philosophy until 1916. Fernald wrote History In complying with the letter and spirit of applicable laws and in pursuing its of the University of Maine. own goals of diversity, the University of Maine System shall not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or citizenship status, age, disability, or veterans status in employment, educa­ tion, and all other areas of the University. The University provides reasonable Host families needed for the 11th Cooperative Extension accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. Questions and complaints about discrimination in any area of the University 4-H exchange program with Japan should be directed to Evelyn Silver, Director of Equal Opportunity, The Families throughout Maine have an opportunity to host a Japanese youth University of Maine, Room 101, 5754 North Stevens Hall, Orono, ME 04469- this summer through a University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H 5754, telephone (207) 581-1226 (voice and TDD). exchange program. This is the 11th year for the program that brings students, ages 12-16, to share a month with a Maine family. “We don’t ask families to do anything special,” says Harold Brown, program coordinator. “We want them to go through their normal routines. Cultural Affairs Committee Deadline for Proposals The youngsters have their own spending money and health insurance. We The deadline to submit proposals to the Cultural Affairs/Distinguished just ask the families to provide lodging and meals.” Lecture Series Committee is Friday, March 30. Proposal guidelines and Families do not have to be enrolled in a 4-H program to participate in the applications are available by contacting Wanda Legere, President's Office, exchange. The Japanese students are expected to arrive in Maine July 21. X1516. A parent orientation meeting is planned for July 22 on campus. This also is the day the host families will meet their Japanese guests. The children will be returned to campus Aug. 17. “Parents have told us in the past that they make new friendships and Campus wide Calendar often correspond with the students' parents in Japan. Some of the Maine The UMaine Master Calendar is a searchable electronic listing of on- kids have even gone to Japan for a month the following summer,” says campus events for the academic year that have been submitted for inclu­ Brown. sion. The Web-based calendar is located at http://calendar.umaine.edu Since it began in 1972, the national 4-H exchange program has brought and on FirstClass. more than 30,000 Japanese youngsters to the United States, and more If you have events already scheduled, send your listings to the Master than 4,000 American students have made return visits to Japan. Calendar. If you are planning an event and want to check for other activities More information is available at county offices of UMaine Cooperative scheduled at particular days and times, check the Master Calendar or call Extension. 581-3745.

14 . Maine Perspective . March 26, 2001 Alumili House continued from page 2 Garddl Show continued from page 2 WBRC Architects/Engineers. In addition to the red brick exterior Tickets are on sale 10 a.m.-2 p.m., March 27-28,104 Deering Hall. found on many UMaine buildings, Alumni House will borrow archi­ For more information, contact Mary Fernandez, 581-2938. tectural design features, such as arches and roof designs, from other Among the exhibitors at this year’s Garden Show will be structures on campus. UMaine’s award-winning Landscape Horticulture Society. The soci­ The main building facing College Avenue will house UMaine’s ety's exhibit this year will be a country cottage-style garden. Visitors’ Center and the Alumni Association’s museum and library. Since 1993, society members have annually exhibited at the Throughout the first floor, large, open areas will accommodate recep­ Garden Show, which is the primary fund raiser for Bangor Beautiful. tions and other events. Also taking part in this year’s Garden Show is the Hudson An elevator provides barrier-free access to the basement and Museum, which will offer a Children’s Room exhibit focusing on the second floor, the location of Alumni Association offices, and board plants and trees integral to the lives of Maine Indians. The exhibit and conference rooms. will include hands-on activity stations for children and educational A leadership hall connecting the buildings of the complex will resources for teachers. ▲ showcase prominent UMaine alumni and their post-graduation achievements. In the adjoining building, the Maine Event Room takes up much of CcnSUS continued from page 2 the first floor. The room, which opens out onto a courtyard, will seat substantially in the years immediately following the Revolutionary 125. It is named in honor of Clifford McIntire, Class of ’30 and a War. There were 150 jurisdictions in Maine in 1790 when the state former lawmaker from Aroostook County. was part of Massachusetts. Ten years later, 239 jurisdictions existed. The University of Maine Foundation will occupy the second floor The number reached its height in 1920 with 727. It has declined of the rear building. In the lower level, phonathon facilities and office steadily since then. In 1990, there are 525, four fewer than in 1980. space will be available for student groups affiliated with the Alumni Frank Wihbey, head of the government documents section at Association. Fogler, maintains the Maine Census Data page and notes that Nationwide, the trend is for college and university alumni associa­ changing boundaries raise questions about population trends in tions to have stand-alone physical homes. Across the country, alumni specific places. “We had to be careful to account for jurisdictions associations at colleges and universities are building, planning or where population numbers from year to year might not always refer adding on new facilities because they realize their importance on to the same land area,” he explains. campus. For example, in 1891, a portion of Camden split off to form what “When people visit this building, they will get a sense of what is present-day Rockport. Some areas existed as political units for UMaine is about,” Mills says. ▲ short periods, such as Ducktrap in Hancock County 1790-1800, and in some rare cases were claimed by more than one jurisdiction, such as Matinicus Island in 1840. The census database includes population numbers for those areas, as well as historical notes. UMaine Cooperative Extension Data from the 2000 Census will be added to the database when it ▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲A becomes available from the U.S. Census later this year. The effort to compile historical census information for Maine 4-H Youth Development needs volunteers began with Dawn Lacadie, a staff member who worked at the library As part of the National Volunteer Week celebration April 22-28, until 1995. In responding to questions from the public about popula­ University of Maine Cooperative Extension is seeking adult volun­ tion trends, Lacadie sought data from many sources. She realized that teers to work with 4-H Program youth, ages 5-19. having the information in one place would improve access for inter­ “We need people who have an interest in spending time with ested citizens. young people and who want to learn alongside them,” says Ronald The spreadsheets that Lacadie developed became the foundation Jones, 4-H youth development specialist. for the Web site. Her information was entered into a computer 4-H is seeking people to help provide guidance in a variety of 4-H database file and verified for accuracy. Graphics for the Census page activities - from general chapter operations to specific projects. were designed by Gary Guzzo at Atomic Studios in Boothbay People with specific skills and interests are also needed. Harbor; programming for the database was done by Curtis Meadow Nationally, the average volunteer spends three to four hours per of Trefoil Inc. in Orono. ▲ month serving one or more organizations. Last year, more than 4,000 volunteers provided support to the Maine 4-H Youth Development program. Currently, more than 24,000 Maine youth participate in 4-H Youth Campus Energy lips aaaaaaaaaaaaaAaaaaaaaaaaaIaaaaaaAaaaaaaaaa Development programs in 16 counties. They are involved in a variety From the Sustainability Coalition of activities and programs, including day camp, overnight camping, after-school programs, school enrichment and other special interest Each household-size refrigerator on campus costs the University about $60-$200 per year in electricity. You can help reduce this cost and also projects/groups. reduce the University's contribution to global warming by making sure that 4-H Youth Development is a leam-by-doing program that is part of the cooling coils at the back or on the bottom of any refrigerator in your work UMaine Cooperative Extension, which has faculty and staff on area are kept dusted, and that air circulates freely to the coils. If the refriger­ campus and in every county in Maine. ator has manual defrost, keeping ice buildup at a minimum will greatly Any adults interested in helping with the 4-H Youth Development decrease the amount of electricity used. Most importantly, to reduce the program are encouraged to call their county Cooperative Extension total number in operation, can you share a refrigerator with someone else? Also, replacing your refrigerator with a new one can often cut the electricity office or call the toll-free number, 1-877-444-8623. ▲ used in half.

March 26, 2001 • Maine Perspective • 15 National Institutes of of four priority areas: Conservation Health, National Engineering, Optimum Utilization of IACUC biannual training/orientation Science Foundation, Harvest Resources, Planning for The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) announces and U.S. Geological Fishing Community Transition, and the spring offering of the IACUC biannual training/orientation program. It Survey jointly sponsor Marine Aquaculture in the Off-Shore will be held Wednesday, May 9 (Maine Day), 9-10:30 a.m., 220 Corbett research on the ecology Environment. Deadline: May 7. Hail (across from the Gym). of infectious diseases. People who have attended previous training sessions do not have to Studies focus on the U.S. Geological Survey's National attend. ecological determinants Earthquake Hazards Reduction This campuswide training/orientation program is in compliance with of transmission by Program has announced its FY02 federal regulation and the University's approved Animal Welfare Assurance. vectors or abiotic grant competition, supporting All faculty, staff and students who work with live, vertebrate, non-human agents, the population research on earthquake occurrence animals are required to participate in the program. The IACUC will not dynamics of reservoir and effects. Multiple priorities are act on protocols for approval of animal use until all project personnel have species, and transmis­ outlined for each of several been certified as having completed the training program. Contact the Office sion to humans or geographic areas, for laboratory and of Research and Sponsored Programs for registration forms, X1476. other hosts. theoretical studies, and for the Environmental changes development of tools and informa­ of interest include habitat destruc­ tion products. Deadline: May 8. tion or fragmentation, deforestation, Tax assistance biological invasion, agricultural prac­ National Science Foundation and UMaine accounting students are providing free income tax assistance tices, and environmental pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, every Monday, 2-5 p.m., 117 Corbett Business Building. The VITA program, climate change, and resulting in a partnership for environmental sponsored by the IRS, is available to help students, the elderly and people climate events. A non-binding letter research, will focus in FY01 from the community with basic income tax returns. People needing assis­ of intent is requested by April 2. on Technology for a Sustainable tance should bring their W-2s, 1099s, and other tax materials. For more Proposals are due May 17. Environment. Grants will support information, call Associate Professor Steve Colburn, 581-1982. fundamental and applied research in Council for International Exchange the physical sciences and engi­ of Scholars has opened the compe­ neering in three areas: Chemistry Elizabeth A. Morris Peacemaker Award nominations tition for the academic year 2002- and Chemical Reaction-based Nominations are being accepted for the Elizabeth A. Morris Peace-maker 2003 Fulbright awards. Thirty-eight Engineering for Pollution Avoidance Award. This award recognizes UMaine undergraduates who have prestigious Distinguished Chairs or Prevention; Non-reaction Based contributed their active efforts and leadership, however quietly, to the with enhanced benefits will be filled Engineering for Pollution Avoidance promotion of peace. Activism might include advancing social justice and at universities in Canada and in 12 and Prevention; and Green Design, non-violence, promoting conflict resolution, or protecting the environment. European countries: candidates Manufacturing, and Industrial Nomination deadline is April 1. For more information, contact the Wilson must file a letter of interest by Ecology for Sustainable Product/ Center, 67 College Ave., Orono; 866-4227. May 1. Application deadline for all Services Realization. Deadline: other Fulbright lecturing, lecturing/ May 21. research, and research awards worldwide: Aug. 1. For more information, call Research Annual AAUW book sale & Sponsored Programs, X1476, or The Annual Used Book Sale sponsored by the Penobscot Valley Branch National Oceanic and Atmospheric visit our Web site of AAUW will be Saturday, April 7, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at the Church of Universal Administration invites applications (www.orsp.umesp.maine.edu). Fellowship, Main Street, Orono. A snack bar will be available. There is no to the FY01 Saltonstall-Kennedy admission charge for the sale; a small fee will be charged early bird shop­ Grant Program for research and pers from 8-9 a.m. Proceeds benefit the chapter's educational goals, development addressing needs of including nontraditional student scholarships and national fellowships. U.S. fisheries. The scope of the Donations of used books can be made by calling Sue Owen, 8664892. program is limited to marine species under Federal jurisdiction and to one

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