PRESQUE ISLE – Clare Exner and Joseph Manzione have joined the faculty at the University Of Maine at Presque Isle and are members of UMPI’s social science and business division.

Exner, assistant professor of business management and director of Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity at UMPI, received her bachelor of arts degree in English from the State University of New York. She received her juris doctor degree at Rutgers University and Camden Law School in Camden, N.J. She will continue to serve as director of the affirmative action program at UMPI, a position she has held since 1989.

Exner is the co-coordinator of the Americans with Disabilities Act Committee and member of the Integrity sub-committee for the reaccreditation study at UMPI.

Manzione, assistant professor of history, earned his doctor of philosophy in United States histor from the University of Michigan, and his master of arts degree in United States history from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He received his bachelor of arts degree in history from Brigham Young University.

Manzione is involved in research and is converting into a book his dissertation “The American Scientific Community, the Federal Government, and the Issue of International Scientific Relations During the cold War (1945-1960).” He plans to research how the establishment of Loring Air Force Base in Aroostook County in the 1950s and 1960s affected local attitudes toward Cold War issues.