Personnel

Matthew Chabe recently joined Marketing Media, a Bangor-based full-service marketing agency as chief marketing officer. He received a degree in communications from Coastline Community College in Fountain Valley, Calif., and is a 1995 graduate of Old Town High School. Chabe recently completed a seven-year enlistment as a mass communications specialist in the U.S. Navy. Most recently, he served for three years as public affairs officer onboard the Navy’s sailing ship USS Constitution in Boston. Before that, he served aboard the USS Coronado in San Diego, Calif., as assistant public affairs officer. He is a member of the Public Relations Society of America as well as the Maine Public Relations Council.

Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, a University of Maine professor of food science and human nutrition, has been named a senior Fulbright specialist and plans to spend part of a semester-long sabbatical at the University of Milan’s Department of Food Science and Nutrition in Italy studying the health benefits of blueberries. From April through June, she anticipates presenting lectures and graduate seminars and assisting the Department of Nutrition with curriculum development and assessment. She also intends to solidify collaborative research opportunities with colleagues at the University of Milan. A leading authority on the health benefits of wild blueberries, Klimis-Zacas will expand her research in Italy to studying the effects of wild blueberry compounds on DNA degradation in cell cultures and animals and also on diabetic microangiopathies at Medica Hospital and Medical Research Institution in Milan. Klimis-Zacas has taught at UMaine since 1988 and also was a senior Fulbright fellow in 1995, when she conducted research and taught at the National School of Public Health in Athens, Greece.