Multicultural Education Programs
College of Education & Human Development (CEHD) is in year three of the design, development, and implementation of Multicultural Education Programs, a U.S. Department of Education, National Professional Development program. (more...)
The West End Soil Remediation Project
Every year over 1,000 children in Maine are identified with elevated blood lead levels (5.5 ug/dl versus the national average of 2.7 ug/dl) and Medicaid recipients in Maine are twice as likely to be lead poisoned. In Portland, only 22% of the children under 6 years old have been screened for lead poisoning- 5.9% have blood lead levels between 10-19 ug/dl and 2.3% have levels > 20 ug/dl. Lead poisoning research suggests that the primary sources of lead exposure for most children are: deteriorating lead-based paint, lead contaminated dust, and lead contaminated residential soil. (more...)
Maine Rural Health Research Center
The mission of the Maine Rural Health Research Center is to inform health care policymaking and improve the delivery of rural health services through high quality, policy relevant research, policy analysis and technical assistance on rural health issues of regional and national significance. The Maine Rural Health Research Center is a funded Center of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (HRSA), which provides core funding for eight national Rural Health Research Centers, each of whom conduct several individual projects each year within their areas of concentration. (more...)
Pathways to Higher Education - Health Care Professions In Lewiston
On behalf of the Lewiston/Auburn Health Care Action Team (HCAT), the Pathways to Higher Education program in the Division of Community and Professional Education at the University of Southern Maine received a planning grant to partially fund HCAT’s planning process that will result in a comprehensive strategy to address the shortage of health care professionals – particularly registered nurses – in the Lewiston/Auburn area. (more...)
An Entrepreneurship Curriculum for the University of Maine System
In Maine, approximately 90% of all businesses employ fewer than 20 people and 80% employ five or fewer people. Clearly, very small businesses are a critical component of Maine’s economy. At the same time, recognition of the importance of entrepreneurship and small business is not reflected in a systematic way in Maine’s educational system and its economic development strategy. (more...)
Overcoming Geographic and Linguistic Barriers to Foment Cross-Cultural Learning: Mayan History in a Southern Maine Classroom
One of the greatest challenges to teaching Latin American history at the University of Southern Maine (USM) is the geographical distance and linguistic barrier that separates my students from the subject matter. In an effort to bridge this gap, the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation funded a proposal to collect primary sources from Guatemala that present a sample of Mayan historical perspectives and lived experiences to facilitate USM students’ direct access to how Maya think about and reconstruct the past. (more...)
Designing and Implementing Models for the Innovative Use of Simulation to Teach Nursing Care of Ill Adults and Children: A National, Multi-Site, Multi-Method Study
Discoveries and development in educational technology make a wide array of options, such as sophisticated simulators, available to faculty to facilitate experiential learning. Such developments also create an environment that is ripe for systematic and substantial change. To create the most effective and efficient ways of teaching nursing, faculty members need to develop a wide range of methods of engaging students in learning activities, including simulation. (more...)
Biotechnology Transfer Capacity Project
The Biotechnology Transfer Capacity project consists of two parts. First, on June 8-10 the Center for Law & Innovation at USM is hosted an invitation-only workshop (the Knowledge Transfer Workshop) on technology transfer for publicly-funded biotechnology and marine technology research organizations. (more...)
Humanities Scholarship at USM
Professor Donna Cassidy delivered provocative comments at the recent PI recognition event. Is all scholarship truly supported and valued at USM? (more...)
Prisoner Assistance Clinic
The Prisoner Assistance Clinic, started in January 2003, with the assistance of the Maine Bar Foundation and the Department of Corrections, is completing its second full year of operation. This grant is for a third year of funding from the Foundation to continue the work. (more...)
Seafood Safety
The safety of our seafood, from both wild and aquacultured sources, is a growing concern and significant health issue in the US and elsewhere The application of polyculture to reduce nutrients levels in effluents discharged from aquaculture systems is a very important area of research that has the potential to contribute significantly to the sustainability of aquaculture and the overall environmental health of our inland and coastal waterways. (more...)
A Matter of Balance/Volunteer Lay Leader Program
Southern Maine Agency on Aging (SMAA), in collaboration with Partnership for Health Aging, Maine Medical Center´s Geriatric Center, the University of Southern Maine´s School of Social Work, and the Maine State Housing Authority, will address the issue of fall prevention using "A Matter of Balance/Volunteer Lay Leader Model." (more...)
Measuring Vegetation Health NASA
The purpose of the grant is to increase students´ understanding of vegetation, trees and plants, as important indicators of changing environmental conditions. Participants in the grant develop learning activities about how plants and trees respond to a variety of environmental factors, understanding current ways to monitor the response of plants and trees to environmental changes, and how natural and human processes influence environmental conditions. (more...)
Online Directory of Watershed Funding Resources
The New England Environmental Finance Center (EFC1) at the University of Southern Maine has provided research, education, and analytical services designed to address the "how to pay" issues of environmental protection in New England . (more...)
Shetland Islands Climate and Settlement Project: Historical Ecological Archaeology of Fragile Coastal Environments
This grant supports the exploratory phase of an international, interdisciplinary research project which will investigate the interaction of climatic and cultural changes in coastal sand environments of the Shetland Islands, the northernmost region of Scotland. (more...)