USM Public Affairs

Locker rooms, showers and drinking water are now available at  Sullivan Gym.  Repairs on the broken water main are complete.

Jamesie Morgan ’10, College of Education and Human Development

Jamesie Morgan of Harpswell earned a master’s in teaching. She was diagnosed with Stargardt’s disease, which left her legally blind. “I have had a lot of people doubt my abilities to be able to do things over the years,” she said. “The minute I found USM it was like a new start for me. It has been an amazing experience. They have been more accepting of me than I think a lot of people have. The professors have been behind me 100 percent. It’s definitely my goal to prove that somebody with a vision impairment can be a teacher, and I know that teaching is definitely what I want to do.”

Get the Flash Player to see this player.

KATHLEEN ASHLEY, professor of English, was invited to lecture at the European Center for Romanesque Art and Culture on “Les cultes de sainte Foy dans l’Europe medievale” in Conques, France on June 11, 2010.  She was introduced by the mayor of Conques, who awarded her the medal of the town for her contributions to the scholarship on their local shrine and saint.

LUCILLE BENEDICT, assistant professor of chemistry, co-presented “Rip-Mix-Learn (RML): Using Google Docs to Create Collaborative Multimodal Class Notes” at the 240^th American Chemical Society Meeting in Boston, Mass. on August 22, 2010.

LIBBY BISCHOF, assistant professor of history, is co-curator for the “Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940” exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art.  The exhibit will run from  from June 4 through September 11, 2011.  Bischof wrote the catalogue for the exhibition, which will be published by Yale University Press in the spring of 2011.

SCOTT W. BROWN, professor of psychology, is scheduled to have his invited chapter, “Timing, Resources, and Interference: Attentional Modulation of Time Perception,” published in “Attention and Time” (Nobre & Coull [eds.], Oxford University Press, 2010, pp.107-121).  The chapter summarizes Brown’s own research in timing processes over the last 25 years.

WENDY CHAPKIS, professor of sociology and director of Women & Gender Studies, presented a paper on gender politics in the drug policy reform movement entitled “The Trouble with Mary Jane’s Gender” at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in Atlanta, Ga. in August 2010.  She was elected vice president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.  She will serve as vice president elect in 2010-11 and vice president in 2011-12.

EMMANUELLE CHAULET, arts events director, School of Music, adjunct theatre faculty, was invited by the NYC Lincoln Center Film Society Festival to speak about Eric Rohmer during the Society’s complete retrospective of Rohmer’s films.  There will be two screenings of “Lami de Mon Amie,” a movie that Chaulet performed in as a lead role.  After the screening on August 29, 2010, Chaulet spoke and signed copies of her book, “A Balancing Act” (Starlight Acting Books, 2008).

PAUL CHRISTIANSEN, assistant professor of music, translated Lubomír Spurný’s and Jiøí Vysloužil’s “Alois Hába: A Catalogue of the Music and Writings” (Prague: Koniasch Latin Press, 2010), which will appear in October 2010.  This reference tool will be the world’s comprehensive source on the 20^th-century Czech composer, known primarily for his microtonal compositions.  Two grants from the Czech Science Foundation supported Christiansen’s work.

LAURIE DAVIS, executive director of Upward Bound Program, presented at the Child Nutrition Act Panel regarding Upward Bound’s participation in the Summer Food Service Program.  The panel was convened by Maine Representative Chellie Pingree and attended by USDA Undersecretary Kevin Concannon. The presentation can be seen on Chellie Pingree’s web site .