Criminal Justice students organize job fair for Bangor center
Thursday, 01 May 2008
University of Maine at Presque Isle Criminal Justice students are
organizing a Job Fair for the Women's Transition
Center in Bangor,
and they're looking for Bangor
area employers to participate.
The
job fair, scheduled for Thursday, June 26 from 10 a.m. to Noon at the
transition center, is meant to help female offenders - who are finishing prison
sentences and preparing to re-enter society - to connect with potential
employers. Local colleges will provide resume and interviewing workshops during
the event and Congressman Michael Michaud is scheduled to attend.
Biology student to be published in Northeastern Naturalist
Thursday, 01 May 2008
A
Biology student at the University
of Maine at Presque Isle
who recently completed a two-year research project on crayfish worms has had a
paper she wrote with a biologist and a museum curator accepted for publication
in the peer-reviewed journal Northeastern Naturalist.
Lana McCurry - who is majoring in Biology with a minor
in Chemistry and will graduate this year - just completed a two-year research
project on the first-ever study to establish the distribution of crayfish worms
in the Maritime Provinces of Canada, according to Dr. Stuart R. Gelder,
emeritus Professor of Biology at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, who supervised
the project.
University art professor’s work included in “Painters who Teach” exhibit
Thursday, 01 May 2008
An
Art Professor from the University of Maine at Presque Isle had his work exhibited
alongside that of professors from Harvard, Brandeis, and Indiana universities
this year during an art exhibition in Portland.
Professor Anderson Giles was one of a select group of
artists/educators invited to participate in the "Painters who Teach" exhibit at
the well-known Greenhut Galleries in downtown Portland. The exhibition featured artists who
teach at various universities and colleges across the United States
who also have had notable careers in painting. The exhibition opened on Jan. 31
and continued through March 1.
French students translate website for Northern Maine Regional Airport
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Four
students in Professor Claire Davidshofer's French for Professionals class at
the University of Maine at Presque Isle just completed a translation
project for the Northern
Maine Regional
Airport that will make
the airport's website more accessible to potential customers.
From
now on, when people visit www.flypresqueisle.com,
they will have the option to click on a button that will allow them to peruse
the website in French. This makes the Northern
Maine Regional
Airport the only airport in Maine to have a
bilingual website.
University students build online health portal for the region
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Students
at the University of Maine at Presque Isle gained important hands-on
experience building a website that will serve as a health care resource for the
region thanks to a partnership with the University of New England
and The Aroostook Medical Center.
A small group of students in the University's Management
Information System program built the website www.aroostookhealth.org from the
ground up in the last year to serve as a "health services portal" for the local
community.
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