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Logan College of Chiropractic

HUDSON – Ryan Sullivan, formerly of Hudson, has been named to the dean’s list at Logan College of Chiropractic located in Chesterfield, Mo.

Sullivan, the son of Terry and Jolynn Sullivan of Hudson and husband of the former Lisa Peary of Corinth, is a 2000 graduate of Central High School in Corinth and a 2005 graduate of the University of Maine.

Eastern Maine Community College

ALTON – Ryan McAuley was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester of 2007 and the spring semester of 2008 at Eastern Maine Community College. He is the son of Daniel and Theresa McAuley of Alton.

Studying in London

ORONO – Ellen Parent, daughter of Timothy and Ruth Parent of Orono, is spending the fall semester studying in London, England, through a program run by Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt. Parent is a student at Richmond University, where she is studying economics.

Western Governors University

BUCKSPORT – Elizabeth Whitney of Bucksport graduated from Western Governors University in Salt Lake City with a bachelor’s degree in education studies.

Nature photography

ORONO – A University of Maine graduate student has won runner-up honors in a prestigious international conservation and nature photography competition.

Dane Wojcicki was honored in the student category of the International Conservation Photography Awards 2008 competition.

His photograph of a bird, a juvenile Dunlin, was taken on a recent University of Maine phytoplankton research cruise off the coast of Iceland with a Nikon D80 camera and a 60mm macro lens.

Wojcicki of Amherst, N.H., is working toward a master of arts degree in new media with a focus on documentary photography and videography of natural history and science.

Wojcicki’s photo was selected from more than 1,000 entries and was one of only two student award winners this year.

The International Conservation Photography Awards competition is a premier worldwide event. The biennial juried photo competition includes an online exhibit, a six-week museum gallery show at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle, Wash., and publication in a photography magazine.

Created in 1997 by nature photographer Art Wolfe, the International Conservation Photography Awards competition is designed as “an event for the advancement of photography as a unique medium, capable of bringing awareness and preservation to our environment through art,” according to its Web site at www.icpawards.com.

Wojcicki’s winning photo can be seen on the Web page for student photography winners, www.icpawards.com/2008Winners/Student.html.

UPS Casey Scholarship

BREWER – Joanna Sinclair, 18, a recent graduate of Brewer High School, has been chosen one of 138 winners of a James E. Casey Scholarship, an annual award presented by The UPS Foundation.

The scholarships are awarded to children of UPS employees.

Sinclair, the local scholarship winner, daughter of Jody and Daniel Sinclair of Brewer, is a student at the University of Maine. Her mother is employed as a part-time supervisor at the UPS facility in Bangor.

James E. Casey scholarships range from $8,000 to $24,000 over four years of undergraduate study. Winners are determined through a nationwide competition conducted by the independent National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Established in 1964, the James E. Casey Scholarship is named for one of the founders of UPS who, along with several other teenagers, started a small Seattle messenger service in 1907 that has become the world’s largest package and express delivery company.

In 1998, UPS implemented a new enhancement to the program for the children of part-time UPS employees. The company will award 25 scholarships to these students in addition to the 111 scholarships for children of full-time employees.

Workplace harassment study

ORONO – University of Maine sociologist Amy Blackstone has received a $125,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to fund a two-year study of workplace harassment of older workers in Maine.

Conventional thinking may associate workplace harassment with younger or culturally different demographic groups, but given the state’s aging work force, Blackstone says now is an especially important time to become familiar with the workplace experiences of older adults.

Beginning this fall, the assistant professor of sociology will survey as many as 800 Maine workers age 62 and older to determine how they perceive and handle harassment at work.

Blackstone hopes to find out how stature at work affects harassment experiences, and how stature at work, home and in the community may affect responses to those experiences.

By bringing together several areas of sociological inquiry, including age, power, victimization and mobilization, the study will provide new information, which could be used as the basis for modifying policies or employment laws to raise awareness about situations that may create opportunities for employee harassment or discrimination.

Findings from the study will be published and used to develop a larger-scale comparative investigation of workplace harassment over worker life cycles. It also will promote teaching, training and learning by engaging UM undergraduate and graduate-level research assistants, offering students experience with data collection, analysis, writing and collaboration with local agencies.

MMA’s Schooner Bowdoin

CASTINE – Maine Maritime Academy’s schooner Bowdoin will welcome the public aboard as part of a scheduled visit to Bar Harbor. In conjunction with open boat hours, Capt. Rick Miller will give a slide show and lecture regarding the schooner’s recent 60-day voyage to the Arctic Circle.

Both events are open to the public free. The Bowdoin will be docked on Sunday, Sept. 14, at the Bar Harbor Pier and open for tours from noon to 4 p.m. A slide show and presentation will be held at 5 p.m. in the auditorium of Mount Desert Island High School.

Recalling the vessel’s historic roots in Arctic exploration and research, the Bowdoin sailed more than 5,000 nautical miles this summer, reaching 70 degrees North Latitude along the west coast of Greenland.

The trip enabled students sailing aboard the vessel to retrace its historic routes while learning the fundamentals of ocean voyaging from pre-voyage planning and provisioning to sailing and navigation.

The course, “Auxiliary Sail: Ocean Voyaging,” was a more intense version of an experiential learning opportunity offered at MMA each summer.

This year’s cruise was initiated and planned by students. The ambitious schedule and itinerary were brought about by the vision, enthusiasm and persistence of several students who first suggested the idea more than a year ago.

The Bowdoin, a national historic landmark and Maine’s official sailing vessel, was built in 1921 at the Hodgdon Bros. Shipyard in East Boothbay, now Hodgdon Yachts Inc. The Bowdoin made 25 expeditions to the Arctic Circle under the scientific and seafaring leadership of Adm. Donald MacMillan until 1954.

The Bowdoin sailed 28 degrees north of the Arctic Circle and wintered over four times in the region while frozen in ice. MacMillan became internationally known for his explorations and received the Hubbard Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society in 1953. He was well-known for his inclusion of high school age students in his epic expeditions.

After the vessel’s withdrawal from Arctic service, the Bowdoin supported the educational initiatives of Mystic Seaport in Connecticut and the Outward Bound School in Maine. The schooner was later acquired by the Schooner Bowdoin Association. Maine Maritime Academy leased the vessel in 1988 and bought it outright in 1989.