Co-founders Seabren & Whitney Reeves with USM Professor John Voyer
A graduate student in the USM School of Business is the leader of this year’s USM Student Business Plan Competition winning team for the new business, Bitzy Baby™. Bitzy Baby™, a juvenile safety product company that specializes in improving infant sleeping environments, won first place for both the Scalable Business Track category and the grand prize.
Professor of Art Michael Shaughnessy recently won the 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial William E. and Helen E. Thon Jurors’ Prize for his sculpture, Cascade, Current and Pool. Two of Shaughnessy’s students, Fred Clark and Cait Cappaldi assisted with the installation, giving them the experience of installing art work in Maine’s oldest and largest art museum.
Visit the Portland Museum of Art to read more about Professor of Art Michael Shaughnessy and the 2011 PMA Biennial.
Read President Botman’s comments in April 22 Portland Press Herald article “Budget balanced as USM moves on.”
USM’s “Thinking Matters” features a daylong series of events on Friday, April 29, that showcase dozens of USM, SMCC and Maine Medical Center Research Institute student-faculty research collaborations. Poster presentations include research on such diverse topics as the development of solar panel cookers and cell phone chargers for third-world countries to analysis of the heavy metal content of exhaust generated by the wood and pellet stoves recommended by Maine’s Wood-to-Energy Taskforce. One of the posters explains how parts of sperm whale cells can be used to assess the impacts of the Gulf Oil Spill on these creatures. This research is the product of a USM research sail to the Gulf of Mexico last summer and fall.
The launch for the forty-first publication of Words & Images will feature Kate Cheney Chappell, Adrian Blevins, and an exclusive reading by bestselling author Andre Dubus III from his recent release Townie: A Memoir. The event will take place from 6-9 p.m., Friday April 29 in Talbot Lecture Hall in Luther Bonney Hall on the Portland campus. There will be a cash bar, free hors d’oeuvres, and live music from 8-9 p.m. by Olas, a Portland-based flamenco-inspired band. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Publishing Director Rodney Nason, 207-939-5515 or rodney.nason@maine.edu . (more…)
In her April 25 Portland Press Herald column, President Botman discusses the students who work in her office and the importance of the federal financial aid program that allows colleges to hire work-study students.
The University of Southern Maine is hosting a panel discussion on “A Matter of Survival: School Climate for Maine’s LGBTQ Youth” from 5:30-7 p.m. on Thursday, April 28 in Room 113, Masterson Hall, Portland. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Emily Paine at (207) 240-6576 or by email at emily.a.paine@maine.edu.
“A Matter of Survival,” is organized by USM’s 2010-2011 Maine Policy Scholar Emily Paine, a senior majoring in Women & gender Studies and sociology. The panel will focus on the harsh climate lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students currently face in Maine schools, and what we can all do to ensure greater safety for these youth. (more…)
USM Professor Ed Collom, who has researched how to build more sustainable communities with time banks that allow members to exchange goods and services without the use of cash, will present his findings in a free, public lecture at 7 p.m., this Thursday, April 28 in Hannaford Lecture Hall, Bedford St., Portland.
For more information on his presentation, “Equal Time, Equal Value: Building Healthier Communities Through Time Banking,” call USM Research Administration at 228-8139. (more…)
WMPG, USM’s Community Radio Station, announces the seventh annual Fashion Show Benefit
Saturday, April 30 at Pulse Maine, 865 Spring Street, Westbrook.
Serena Dawn Gosbee
Serena Dawn Gosbee of Sebago, Maine, will be the student commencement speaker at the University of Southern Maine’s 131st Commencement on Saturday, May 14, in the Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland. She will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in communication. Isle au Haut resident, best-selling author and swordfishing captain Linda Greenlaw will give the commencement address. It is expected that nearly 900 graduates will march at the ceremony.
