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Teodor Huzij honored by AAO as 2010 Resident of the Year
Teodor Huzij, DO was awarded the 2010 Resident of the Year by the American Academy of Osteopathy (PAAO). Dedicated to Osteopathic Medicine from the beginning, Dr. Huzij completed a dual Family Medicine/Psychiatry Residency within the U.S. military and received AOA training approval via Resolution 42. While stationed in Japan for four years, Dr. Huzij not only cared for thousands of psychiatric patients, he took the initiative to found and run an OMT Clinic within that hospital. Being able to
integrate OMT with his practice of medicine and psychiatry kept him deeply interested in his Osteopathic roots and ultimately led him to a residency in NMM/OMM at UNECOM. As Junior Faculty at UNECOM, Dr. Huzij is responsible for delivering didactic and hands-on presentations to fi rst and second year osteopathic medical students. Dr. Huzij has proven to be an engaging lecturer and his hands-on lab presentations are clear and concise and promote student learning; resulting in high evaluations from the students and faculty in both the didactic and table training realms.
At the national level, Dr. Huzij was invited to speak at the AOA Annual Convention in New Orleans November 2009. He presented a lecture entitled, "Osteopathic Psychiatry" to the American College of Osteopathic Neurologists and Psychiatrists (ACONP) in which he challenged the long held belief and practice of psychiatrists that teaches them to avoid touching their patients, thereby precluding Osteopathic Psychiatrists from practicing OMM/OMT on their patients. Dr. Huzij co-authored a position paper for the AOA regarding "Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy in Psychiatry: Position Paper, 2007". One of Dr. Huzij's long-term goals within the AOA is to completely change the way Osteopathic Psychiatrists practice medicine. He is leading the way for Osteopathic Principles of Manipulative Medicine to be re-incorporated into the practice of psychiatry.
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2010 Undergraduate Arts & Sciences Symposium winners announced
Med Bio student Stephanie Podolski presents poster at national conference
Stephanie Podolski, Medical Biology major, ’11, presented her research “Tissue-specific activation of AMP-activated protein kinase by heat stress in the lobster, Homarus americanus” at the FASEB Experimental Biology Meeting in Anaheim, CA. Her poster was co-authored by Jennifer Jost, Ph.D. and Markus Frederich, Ph.D. With her research project Stephanie qualified for the final round of the national undergraduate research competition “David Bruce Award”. Her research was funded by an undergraduate research fellowship from the American Physiological Society and performed in the laboratory of Markus Frederich, Associate Professor in the Department of Marine Sciences. |
UNE's PSC Students travel to the United Nations
This spring the Political Science Department offered an advanced course on Model United Nations, which is the second time this course has been offered. Led by political science assistant professor Julie Mueller, Students from UNE participated along with 5,000+ peers from 340 schools on five continents in the 2010 National Model United Nations-NY (NMUN-NY) conference, hosted by the National Collegiate Conference Association.
Eleven political science students (Ashley Berquist 11, John Connell 11, Justin Davis 11, Kaitlyn Dyleski 10, Brianni Frazier 11, Elyse Johnson 12, Donovan Marvin 10, Aaron Mitchell 11, Chase Sheaff 12, Whitney Underwood 12, and Briana White 11) took part. Students were paired with partners from BGSU to represent France on a variety of committees, including the UN General Assembly committees, the Security Council, UNICEF, NATO, the International Court of Justice and the UN Environment Programme. |
UNE students present roundtable at New England Women's Studies Association Conference
![]() Students in UNE's Women's and Gender Studies Program recently
presented along with Program Co-Director Jennifer Tuttle at the New
England Women's Studies Association Conference, held at U Mass
Dartmouth April 30-May 1, 2010. Their roundtable presentation was
entitled "Beyond the Classroom: Practicing Activism in a WGST Minor
Program." Each student discussed the ways she has applied her women's and gender studies education outside the classroom and explained why this work was important to her and to society. Topics included on-campus programming for body image and LGBTQ awareness, the V-Day Campaign to end violence against women and girls, work with women in Ghana as part of the UNE Health Mission, advocacy for women through the legal system, and the recent Take Back the Night rally in Portland. Discussion with the the audience during the panel explored the ways students' coursework, such as Introduction to Women's Studies, has helped them to find their "entry point" into feminism and to social awareness more generally. Participants/attendees were: Jennifer S. Tuttle, Ph.D., (Faculty, Dept. of English & Language Studies) |
Med bio student Ashley Peterson profiled on NESN.com for Run to Home Base 9K
Ashley Peterson '12, a medical biology student, was profiled on NESN.com
for her participation in the upcoming Run to Home Base 9K, an event to
honor heroic veterans and help raise funds to provide much needed
services to local veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The
race is organized by the new Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts
General Hospital Home Base Program. As a combat medic in the Navy for
eight months in Iraq, Peterson mended many wounds. While she has
avoided some of the stressors that have hit others who returned from
active duty, the images and memories will always be there. To cope and
clear her head, Peterson has one course of action. "I go for a run,"
said Peterson. |
Students Elisabeth Ziemba and Alyssa Martin interviewed by TV news about 'Take Back the Night'
Elisabeth Ziemba and Alyssa Martin, two UNE students minoring in
women's and gender studies, were interviewed on TV news stories about
the "Take Back the Night" rally in Portland on April 23, 2010. The
theme of this year's march was take back the media, saying if every
form of media stopped portraying women in a negative way the country
and Maine would be one step closer to letting people know it's okay to
talk about sexual assault. Ziemba, an English major, was interviewed on
WGME 13 and Martin, a psychology major, on WMTW 8. The two participated in the rally as part of their work for Lori Power's Introduction to Women's Studies class. |
Alexandra Panaitiu selected as an alternate for the National Alpha Chi Honor Society's Alfred H. Nolle Scholarship
Alexandra Panaitiu has been selected as an alternate for the National Alpha Chi Honor Society's Alfred H. Nolle Scholarship. Alpha Chi has active chapters at some 300 institutions in almost every state and in Puerto Rico. Inducting no more than the top 10 percent of juniors, seniors, and graduate students in all academic fields, the society registers approximately 11,000 new members each year.
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Alpha Chi National College Honor Society welcomes new members
UNE’s chapter of Alpha Chi welcomed 45 new members at a formal ceremony held on Feb. 5, 2010 in the Eleanor deWolfe Ludcke Auditorium on the Portland Campus. The Alpha Chi National College Honor Society membership is for the highest 10 percent of the junior and senior classes. More than 200 friends and family joined the celebration. The new members are: Christina Baker, Holly Beaulac, Ashley Bergquist, Megyn Beyer, Tanya Blowey, Courtney Brown, Christopher Carey, Stephanie Caron, Dayna Collins, Laura Costin, Justin Davis, Christina Faller, Mary Fehlner, Andrew Ferrara, Elizabeth Fisher, Jacqueline Foskitt, Caryn Howard, Benjamin Ingerson, Angelica Jarmusz, Daniel Kelleher, Matthew Levasseur, Lyndie Libby, Katherine Lindquist, Sarah McDonough, Dory Mercer, Chelsey Meszaros, Aaron Mitchell, Ashley Moore, Abigail Morneault, MaryJane Mulkern, Alexandra Panaitiu, Angelena Pepe, Christina Perazio, Stephanie Podolski, Heather Putnam, Jamee Robinson, Joshua Saucier, Pratik Shah, Abigail Slavin, Mary Taddia, Ali Trafton, Briana White, Elizabeth Williams, Amber Zablowsky. |