Schools

Audubon vacation programs

HOLDEN – Fields Pond Audubon Center will provide fascinating nature-based programs for children of all ages during school vacation. Each day brings a different exploration of springtime creatures such as insects, owls, amphibians and turtles.

Jim Dill, University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist, will showcase enormous insects at 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 17.

At 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, Stan Richmond of Birdsacre will introduce live owls from the sanctuary in Ellsworth.

Frogs and salamanders will be the center of attention at 1 p.m. Thursday, April 19.

At 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 20, the “Turtle Lady,” Jean Adamson, will introduce her rescued turtles to the center.

All programs last about an hour and provide opportunities for children to personally experience the creatures. Cost is $3 per person and no registration is necessary. For more information, call Fields Pond Audubon Center at 989-2591 or e-mail rperry@maineaudubon.org.

Bangor High School

BANGOR – The Bangor High School Key Club held elections for the 2007-2008 school year. The Key Club, sponsored by Bangor Noon Kiwanis, raises money for children in the Bangor area and groups such as Big Brothers-Big Sisters, the YMCA and March of Dimes, whose mission is to help children in a variety of ways. Several events have been held, with hundreds of dollars raised by the students.

James McHenry, a math teacher at Bangor High, will continue as teacher adviser and Jane Searles, a member of Bangor Noon Kiwanis, will continue as the Kiwanis adviser.

Key Club officers are: president, Brianna Morrissey; vice president, Catherine MacDonald; secretary, Abbie Clark; treasurer, Min Hwang; editor-Points: Paige Hammond; sergeant-at-arms, Jen Tsang.

Apple poster contest

The Maine State Pomological Society has announced its third Maine Apple Sunday poster contest open to Maine pupils in grades four through six.

Interested classrooms or individual children are encouraged to submit designs promoting the fun and nutritional tradition of apple harvesting on an 81/2-by-11-inch piece of paper including name, age, phone number, school and teacher. The winning artist’s classroom will receive a $100 donation and an Apple Celebration party. The winning illustration and slogan will be used to promote Maine Apple Sunday on Sept. 9.

Guidelines are available on www.maineapples.org. Entries may be sent to MSPS, c/o Highmoor Farm, P.O. Box 179, Monmouth, 04259. Deadline is May 1. Winning design will be announced by May 11.

Girl Scout cookie booth

BANGOR – Junior Girl Scout Troop 114 of Eddington will set up a booth for cookie sales 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 14, at Sam’s Club in Bangor. Proceeds from the sale will go toward a summer road trip to Rhode Island to visit the Roger Williams Park and Zoo and the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut.

For more information, call Anne Earle, 843-0590.

John Bapst Memorial High School

A talent show will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 14, at John Bapst Memorial High School. Admission is $5 at the door. Proceeds will benefit the Destination Imagination team.

Colleges

Babson College

WELLESLEY, Mass. – These area students were named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Babson College:

. Zachary Bouzan-Kaloustian of Orrington.

. Caitlin Churchill of Hampden.

. Cheryl Morris of Winterport.

Black Bear Online Auction

ORONO – The University of Maine Alumni Association has announced the opening of its second annual Black Bear Online Auction. Proceeds benefit Alumni Association programs that serve 95,000 alumni worldwide.

The auction, which went live on April 3, features dozens of unique and valuable items donated by alumni, supporters and business sponsors. Among the many items up for bid are:

. One-week vacation in Abaco, Bahamas.

. Whitewater rafting trip courtesy of North Country Rivers Rafting Co.

. Weeklong vacation at Pemaquid Point.

. Black Bear athletics tickets.

. Overnight stay at a Blue Hill bed and breakfast.

. Assorted Maine-made jewelry.

. Handcrafted University of Maine chess set.

. University of Maine clothing.

The Black Bear Auction will be open until 5 p.m. Thursday, May 3. To view the catalog of items and make your bid, visit www.mainealumni.com and click the link for the BLACK BEAR AUCTION.

Simmons College

BOSTON – These area students were named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Simmons College:

. Rebecca Kolenik of Bangor, a senior majoring in nursing.

. Amanda Mooers of Bangor, a sophomore majoring in communications.

United States Military Academy

WEST POINT, N.Y. – Cadet Nicholas Goupee was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at the U.S. Military Academy. To earn this honor, a cadet must maintain a 3.0 average in all courses.

Goupee, the son of John and Laurie Goupee of Orrington graduated from Bangor High in 2005. He plans to graduate from West Point in 2009 and be commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.

University College

BANGOR – Nicole Brown, a University College of Bangor student and chairwoman of the System Student Government, participated in the United States Student Association National Student Lobby Day on March 8 in Washington, D.C.

Brown, as Maine’s delegation leader, was asked to present an award to U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe on behalf of the association. Snowe was awarded the Legislator of the Year Award for commitment to students and for funding access to higher education.

Brown currently is featured on Snowe’s Web site. For more information, visit http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm.

University of Maine

ORONO – The 2007 Student Art Exhibition in the Department of Art at the University of Maine will be on view April 6-May 4 in Lord Hall Galleries.

The new venue provides the opportunity for undergraduate students at all levels to exhibit their work. This year the annual juried exhibition presents more than 80 works of art in a range of media. Selected two-dimensional work includes paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and design.

Three-dimensional work in sculpture, design, ceramics, installation and new media are represented. The selection includes a variety of subject matter: landscape, the figure and still life, and political and social commentary.

As in the past, some 40 awards will be given in studio, art history and art education areas. These include scholarships, travel funds and recognition, book and exhibition awards to students who have excelled in their work.

The campus community, family and friends are invited to attend the opening reception 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, April 13. The annual student awards ceremony also will take place.

The Student Art Exhibition opening is one of the liveliest events of the year.

University of Maine

ORONO – At its March 23 meeting, the University of Maine System Board of Trustees approved promotion and tenure for 33 University of Maine faculty members.

UM President Robert Kennedy praised the faculty members for their achievements and recognized their important roles in the UM community.

“Promotion and tenure are significant milestones in a professor’s career, achieved by demonstrating extraordinary accomplishments in teaching, scholarship and service,” Kennedy said. “I am sure that each member of the campus community joins me in congratulating these faculty members on their commitment to the University of Maine, their service to the state of Maine and their dedication to higher education.”

Promoted to professor are:

. College of Engineering: Vincent Caccese, mechanical engineering; Raymond J. Hintz, surveying engineering technology.

. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Howard Cody, political science and Canadian studies; William Halteman, mathematics; Elizabeth McKillen, history.

. College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture: Yong Chen, fisheries population dynamics; Neal Pettigrew, oceanography; Frederick Servello, wildlife; Mario Teisl, resource economics and policy; Huijie Xue, marine science.

Promoted to associate professor with tenure are:

. College of Business, Public Policy and Health: Nory Jones, management information systems; Ann Sossong, nursing.

. College of Education and Human Development: Dianne Hoff, educational leadership.

. College of Engineering: Paul Millard, Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology, and chemical engineering; David Neivandt, chemical engineering; Silvia Nittel, information science and engineering, Judith Pearse, electrical engineering technology.

. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Constant Albertson, art; Stephen Miller, history; Jennifer Moxley, English; Richard Powell, political science; Tod Shockey, mathematics; Michael Wittmann, physics.

. College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture: Andrei Alyokhin, biological sciences; Kathleen Bell, resource economics and policy; Brenda Hall, earth sciences and Climate Change Institute; Michael Kinnison, biological sciences.

Promoted to associate professor are:

. College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture: Cynthia Loftin, wildlife ecology.

Promoted to associate research professor are:

. College of Education and Human Development: Mary Madden, Center for Research and Evaluation.

. College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture: Laurie Connell, School of Marine Sciences.

Promoted to Extension professor and professor: James McConnon, Cooperative Extension, and resource economics and policy.

Promoted to associate Extension professor with continuing contract: Peter Sexton.

Promoted to associate Extension professor and associate professor with continuing contract: Mark Hutton, Cooperative Extension, and plant, soil and environmental sciences.

Plunkett Poetry Festival

ORONO – Five poets from the University of Maine will participate in the University of Maine at Augusta’s fifth annual Terry Plunkett Poetry Festival, scheduled for 6-8 p.m. Friday, April 13, and 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, April 14, in the Katz Library on the Augusta campus. It is the largest poetry festival in the state.

This year the festival will introduce a new feature called “uniVERSity,” in which faculty and students from all seven campuses of the University of Maine System will recite their poetry Friday evening and during the day on Saturday.

University of Maine poets David Adams, Tony Brinkley, Kathleen Ellis, Burt Hatlen and Sandra Hutchison will read 3:15-3:45 p.m.

For a complete schedule visit www.uma.edu/plunkettfestival07. Questions may be directed to Ellen Taylor, UMA associate professor of English, at 621-3114 or e-mail ellent@maine.edu.

Western New England

College

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Joseph Carmichael was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Western New England College. Carmichael is a freshman majoring in mechanical engineering.

Sabbatical in Italy

ORONO – Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, University of Maine professor of food science and human nutrition, has been named a Senior Fulbright Specialist. She 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.

This spring she will present lectures and graduate seminars and assist 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 micro-angiopathies at Medica Hospital and Medical Research Institution in Milan.

She will strengthen research collaborations begun in September 2005 during a trade mission to Italy. Klimis-Zacas has worked with colleagues at the University of Milan to set goals and objectives for common research projects.

Klimis-Zacas has taught at UM since 1988, and was a Senior Fulbright Fellow in 1995, when she conducted research and taught at the National School of Public Health in Athens, Greece.