The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine General University of Maine Publications University of Maine Publications 2013 2013, UMaine News Press Releases Division of Marketing and Communications Margaret Nagle University of Maine George Manlove University of Maine Monique Hashey University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/univ_publications Part of the Higher Education Commons, and the History Commons Repository Citation Division of Marketing and Communications; Nagle, Margaret; Manlove, George; and Hashey, Monique, "2013, UMaine News Press Releases" (2013). General University of Maine Publications. 1095. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/univ_publications/1095 This Monograph 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]. UMaine News Press Releases from Word Press XML export 2013 Article Features Student Nurses’ Belize Mission 02 Jan 2013 An article in The Weekly, a supplement to the Bangor Daily News, included comments from several University of Maine School of Nursing students and a faculty member who are raising money for a March trip to the country of Belize in Central American to provide health care services to underprivileged families. UMaine Geologist Grew Featured in News Reports 02 Jan 2013 Maine Public Broadcasting Network and the Bangor Daily News recently interviewed University of Maine geologist and research professor Ed Grew about his work studying rocks and minerals in remote parts of the world, including Antarctica and Russia. Grew has been recognized for his work with two newly discovered minerals, edgrewite and hydroxledgrewite, named in his honor by two Russian geologists. Coastal Paper Reports on UMaine Extension Plant Sale Benefit 02 Jan 2013 The coastal Penobscot Bay Pilot reported on the “Grow It Right” initiative, through which University of Maine Cooperative Extension is selling blueberry and asparagus plants to benefit its Master Gardener Volunteers and community horticultural programs. Former UMaine President Lloyd Elliott Passes 03 Jan 2013 Lloyd Elliott, University of Maine President from 1958–65, died Jan. 1 at the age of 94. After leaving UMaine, Elliott served as president of George Washington University from 1965 until his retirement in 1988. He then became the president of the National Geographic Education Foundation. "Lloyd Elliott was a nationally recognized educational leader," says University of Maine President Paul W. Ferguson. "At UMaine, he championed educational access, the humanities and science, improved the campus infrastructure, and understood the importance of UMaine research to help the state. Lloyd Elliott continued the development of UMaine on a firm path to becoming the flagship university of Maine that it is today. We have deep gratitude for his service, and our thoughts are with his family and friends." Elliott came to UMaine from Cornell University, where he had served as executive assistant to the president. During his University of Maine administration, Elliott was known for his commitment to expanding student capacity on campus and obtaining enhanced funding from the Maine legislature for faculty and staff. The transformation of the campus landscape during his presidency included construction of six new classroom buildings, six dormitories, two dining halls and Hauck Auditorium. Among other benchmarks: the deployment of closed-circuit television to expand statewide access to classes and the acquisition of Darling Marine Center. Elliott was instrumental in bringing President John F. Kennedy to the university in October 1963 — 33 days before his assassination in Dallas — to receive an honorary degree. UMaine historian David C. Smith in his book, The First Century: A History of the University of Maine, 1865– 1965, characterized Elliott as “a whirlwind in his years at Orono. The campus was literally no longer recognizable to one who has been there in the thirties.” That much-changed campus landscape was celebrated in UMaine’s centennial year, 1965. Elliott received an honorary degree from UMaine in 1969. Elliott was a West Virginia native who earned his undergraduate degree from Glendale State College, a master’s from the University of West Virginia and a Ph.D. in educational administration from the University of Colorado. February Stress Reduction Classes Offered to UMaine Community 03 Jan 2013 A free four-week program exploring stress-reduction strategies is being offered to UMaine faculty and staff from 8:30– 10 a.m. or 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. each Tuesday in February in the Multipurpose Room of the Memorial Union. Leslie Forstadt, University of Maine Cooperative Extension faculty member and child and family development specialist, will lead the classes. Attendance is limited to 10 people and advance registration is required. For more information, to register or to request disability accommodations, contact Angela Martin, [email protected] or 207.581.3739. The program, Mindful University, is funded in part by the ADVANCE Rising Tide Center with support from the National Science Foundation. Discounted Men’s Ice Hockey Tickets for Faculty, Staff 03 Jan 2013 University of Maine faculty and staff have an opportunity to purchase discounted men’s ice hockey tickets for the three January home games at $10 each. The Black Bears, fresh from winning the 2012 Florida College Hockey Classic Tournament, are playing Mercyhurst at 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 5, and Merrimack at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Jan. 18– Jan. 19 at the Alfond Arena. For tickets, call the Department of Athletics ticket office at 207.581.2327. New Spectroscopy Instrument to Advance UMaine Glacial Ice Core Analysis 03 Jan 2013 Researchers at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Keck Laser Ice Facility laboratory have installed and calibrated a new, state-of-the-art Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy instrument that will change the way isotopes in glacial ice are measured for reconstructing and understanding ancient climate change. Researchers Andrei Kurbatov, a Climate Change Institute (CCI) assistant research professor, CCI Director Paul Mayewski and Douglas Introne, CCI stable isotope technician, received funding from the National Science Foundation for the instrument. It will enable the characterization of past abrupt climate change events at extremely high resolution and in unprecedented detail in order to better understand the driving forces of climate change. News Reports Former UMaine President’s Passing 03 Jan 2013 The Maine Public Broadcasting Network, Bangor Daily News and the Washington Post were among the news organizations reporting the death of former University of Maine President Lloyd Elliot at age 94. He was president of UMaine from 1958–65 and of George Washington University from 1965–88. The article included comments from UMaine President Paul Ferguson and UMaine professors emeriti John Battick and Richard Hill. Channel 5 Reports on Student’s Sandy Hook School Project 03 Jan 2013 Channel 5 (WABI) interviewed University of Maine senior Samantha Laverdiere, an Auburn native majoring in psychology with a biology minor, about a fundraising project she is undertaking to make and sell candles, ribbons and bracelets to benefit children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, where a gunman recently killed 20 students and six adults. WABI Covers UMaine Mayan Calendar Talk 03 Jan 2013 Channel 5 (WABI) covered the recent talk at the University of Maine Hudson Museum by Angela Thompson, an East Carolina University professor of Latin American history, about the ancient Mayan calendar and her belief that the world would survive a doomsday scenario predicted by some to occur when the calendar ended Dec. 21. Newspaper Advances UMaine U.S.-Pakistan Relations Talk 03 Jan 2013 The Bangor Daily News has posted an announcement about a presentation on United States and Pakistan relations at 5 p.m., Monday, Jan. 7 at the University of Maine Buchanan Alumni House featuring Husain Haqqani, a Pakistani scholar and public figure who served as Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States from 2008–11. Maine Sea Grant 2014–15 Request for Proposals 04 Jan 2013 Feb. 22 is the deadline for preliminary proposals for Maine Sea Grant College Program research projects to be funded from February 2014 through January 2016. Through biennial request for proposals, Maine Sea Grant strives to sponsor a diverse research portfolio that links the scientific capacity of Maine with the needs of coastal stakeholders. More information is available online. Contact: Catherine Schmitt, 207.581.1434 Maine Sea Grant Involved In New Report on Mercury Pollution 04 Jan 2013 The Coastal and Marine Mercury Ecosystem Research Collaborative (C-MERC), led by the Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program at Dartmouth College with support from the Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine, has released a report, “Sources to Seafood: Mercury Pollution in the Marine Environment,” focusing on the pathways and consequences of mercury pollution across marine systems. “Sources to Seafood” reflects findings from 11 scientific papers representing the work of nearly 70 mercury and marine scientists, including some at the University of Maine, studying ocean regions from the Arctic Ocean and San Francisco Bay to the Gulf of Maine.