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Chancellor Messages_Unwinding From Covid-19, Dannel P. Malloy

Chancellor

Message to the University of Maine System community from Chancellor Dannel P. Malloy regarding the current situation with COVID-19 and University of Maine System responses.

Covid-19 President Memo_Maine Memo - Giving Thanks For Our Communities, Joan Ferrini-Mundy

Office of the President

Message from Joan Ferrini-Mundy, University of Maine President to the University of Maine community regarding the Thanksgiving break and the increase in COVID-19 cases.

Children's Center_Updated Protocol For Close Contacts-Chapel, Kimberly Dodge-Cummings

Children's Center

Email from Kimberly Dodge-Cummings, University of Maine: Children's Center Director regarding changes to protocols put in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Covid-19 President_University Of Maine, University Of Maine At Machias Health And Safety Reminders, Joan Ferrini-Mundy

Office of the President

Message from Joan Ferrini-Mundy, University of Maine President to the University of Maine community regarding the availability of COVID-19 vaccinations.

Covid-19_Health And Safety Guidance_Fall 2022 Webpages, University Of Maine

FAQ & Health Advisory

Screenshots of the University of Maine health and safety guidance webpage with information related to Fall 2022 semester information and updates.

Covid-19_Umaine News_Times Record Interviews Wheeler About Covid-19 Wastewater Testing, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

Division of Marketing & Communications

Screenshot of UMaine in the News regarding Robert Wheeler, associate professor of microbiology at the Department of Molecular and Biological Sciences, speaking with the Times Record about how wastewater testing helps the presence of COVID-19 in a community.

Children's Center_Chapel Covid-19 Testing, Kimberly Dodge-Cummings

Children's Center

Email from Kimberly Dodge-Cummings, University of Maine: Children's Center Director regarding the Children's Center no longer participating in test-to-stay for the Preschool and Chapel programs which was out in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Covid-19_Umaine News_Umaine Study Finds Connection Between Partisan Politics And Effective Face Mask Production During Pandemic, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

Division of Marketing & Communications

Screenshot of UMaine in the News regarding a study published by new faculty Matthew and Natalia Magnani in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maine found that specifics of homemade face mask production were different depending on a state’s political affiliation and changed throughout the country with increased political polarization.

University Of Maine Athletics_Maine Athletics Announces New, Relaxed Covid Policy Email, University Of Maine Athletics

Athletics Department

UMaine Athletic News email regarding the changing of COVID-19 policies, specifically that was no longer a requirement to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test to enter Alfond Arena or The Pit at Memorial Gymnasium. And that face coverings were no longer required.

Collins Center For The Arts_Announcing A New, Relaxed Covid Policy Email, University Of Maine Collins Center For The Arts

Collins Center

Email from the University of Maine's Collins Center for the Arts detailing the relaxing of COVID-19 protocols and guidelines put in place at the Center in response to University of Maine System guidance.

Chancellor Messages_Chancellor's Fall Covid-19 Message, Dannel P. Malloy

Chancellor

Message to the University of Maine System community from Chancellor Dannel P. Malloy regarding the current situation with COVID-19 and University of Maine System responses.

Collins Center For The Arts_Covid-19 Policies Webpage, University Of Maine Collins Center For The Arts

Collins Center

Screenshot of University of Maine's Collins Center for the Arts webpage detailing the relaxing of COVID-19 protocols and guidelines put in place at the Center in response to University of Maine System guidance.

Ums_Community Guidance_Students_Covid-19 Fall 2022 Vaccination Requirements, University Of Maine System

Community Guidance

Screenshot of webpage part of the "Together for Maine" University of Maine System providing information regarding vaccination requirements for the fall semester 2022.

Ums_Community Guidance_Employees_University Of Maine System Covid-19 Employee Vaccination Protocols, University Of Maine System

Community Guidance

Screenshot of webpage part of the "Together for Maine" University of Maine System guidance regarding vaccination protocols for employees.

Total Prevention: A History Of Schistosomiasis In Japan, Alexander Bay

History Faculty Articles and Research

In Japan, schistosomiasis was endemic in Yamanashi Prefecture and a few other hotspot areas where the Miya’iri snail lived. The parasite’s lifecycle relied on the intermediary Miya’iri snail as well as the human host. Parasite eggs passed into the agrarian environment through untreated night soil used as fertiliser or through the culture of open defecation in rural Japan. Manmade rice fields and irrigation ditches, night soil covered paddies and highly refined growing seasons put people in flooded rice paddies to intensively work the land in the spring and summer. The disease was equally dependent on human intervention in the natural …

The Bulletin: Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University, Volume 71, Issue 2, Summer 2022

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

This issue includes:

• Dean's Column
• Time Capsule - Dr. Marion Siegman
• A Message from Elizabeth A. Dale
• ICYMI (In Case You Missed It)
• At the Intersection of Health and Design
• Discovery - A Path Toward Digital Equity
• Mark L. Tykocinski Takes the Helm as President of Thomas Jefferson University
• Student Profile - Kayla Holston
• Faculty Profile - Stephen D. Silberstein, MD
• Alumni Profile - Mahesh Krishnan, MD ’94
• Class Notes
• Reimagine
• Bookshelf
• In Memoriam
• By the Numbers - Match Day 2022

Ums_Community Guidance_Students_Quarantine, Isolation, And Support Services, University Of Maine System

Community Guidance

Screenshot of webpage part of the "Together for Maine" University of Maine System with guidance on quarantine, isolation, and support services for students.

Ums_Community Guidance_Everyone_General Information Regarding Fall 2022 Programs, Visitor Access And Protocols, Visitor And Event Vaccination Requirements, Pandemic Protocols And Overall University Operations, University Of Maine System

Community Guidance

Screenshot of webpage part of the "Together for Maine" University of Maine System general information regarding fall 2022 programs, visitor access and protocols, visitor and event vaccination requirements, pandemic protocols and overall University operations.

The Politics Of The Self: Psychedelic Assemblages, Psilocybin, And Subjectivity In The Anthropocene, Joshua Falcon

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines how psychedelic substances become drawn into particular sociohistorical and political arrangements, and how psychedelic experiences with psilocybin ‘magic mushrooms’ are used as tools of subjectivation. Guided by literatures in philosophy, critical theory, and the social sciences that focus on subjectivity, assemblage theory, and critical posthumanism, I argue that psychedelics are drawn into variegated assemblages, each of which conceptualizes the nature of psychedelics in highly specific ways that reflect implicit conceptions of the world and the self. In developing the concept of psychedelic assemblages, this research provides a window onto the politics of the self in the Anthropocene. …

Hr_On-Campus Covid-19 Vaccination Clinic June 21–24 Email, University Of Maine Office Of Human Resources

University of Maine Communications

Email from University of Maine Office of Human Resources regarding on-campus COVID-19 vaccination clinic being held on campus from 1:30–3 p.m., June 21–24, 2022.

Malaria: Existence Perpetuated By A Counterfeit Drug Industry, Nicholas Black

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that has plagued society for thousands of years. Malaria is often overlooked from the perspective of wealthier industrialized countries due to prevention efforts largely eliminating malaria from these locations. However, overlooking malaria’s continued global relevance is misinformed to the fact that nearly half the global population lives in regions at risk of malarial transmission. According to the CDC and WHO, such a high number of people at risk has subsequently led to an estimated 241 million cases and over 627 thousand deaths in 2020 alone. The purpose for the present research is to examine the …

Covid-19_Umaine News_Mepri Releases Two Reports On Supports For Students And Teachers During Covid-19 Pandemic, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

Division of Marketing & Communications

Screenshot of UMaine in the News regarding a University of Maine study that the Maine Educational Policy Research Institute (MEPRI) has published two new reports based on a study of the strategies and challenges involved in supporting preK–12 students and teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Richard Pearl Interview For The Boonshoft School Of Medicine 50th Anniversary Oral History Project, Richard Pearl, Kristen Dilger

Boonshoft 50th Anniversary Oral History Project

Kristen Dilger interviews Richard Pearl, a graduate of the Boonshoft School of Medicine. He worked as a pediatric surgeon until his retirement. Part of the class of 1980, Pearl discusses his collegiate career, including why he chose Wright State University's new medical college and talks about what it was like attending the college. He talks about the challenges and processes of attending a new medical college, and how attending the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine assisted him in his early career.

Undergraduate Holocaust Education And Biomedical Ethics: What's The Connection?, Tatiana Thompson

Psychology Department Student Scholarship

This poster represents the research results of two studies used to examine Holocaust education in undergraduate colleges and universities.

Ums_Community Guidance_Everyone_Face Covering Requirements, University Of Maine System

Community Guidance

Screenshot of webpage part of the "Together for Maine" University of Maine System guidance regarding changes to face coverings requirements on UMS campuses.

Geoff Calvert, M.D. Interview For The Boonshoft School Of Medicine 50th Anniversary Oral History Project, Geoff Calvert, Kristen Dilger

Boonshoft 50th Anniversary Oral History Project

Kristen Dilger interviews Jeff Clavert, a graduate of the Boonshoft School of Medicine and the Associate Director for Clinical Quality for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the time of the interview. Part of the class of 1983, Calvert discusses his collegiate career, including why he chose Wright State University's new medical college and talks about what it was like attending the college. He talks about the challenges and processes of attending a new medical college, and how attending the Wright State University Boonshoft College of Medicine assisted him in his early career.

Covid-19_Umaine News_On-Campus Covid-19 Testing Schedule Beginning May 9, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications

Division of Marketing & Communications

Screenshot of UMaine News press release regarding UMaine COVID-19 symptomatic and asymptomatic self-administered tests being available.

Chancellor Messages_Important Covid Information Through Final Exams, Dannel Malloy

Chancellor

Message to the University of Maine System community from Chancellor Dannel P. Malloy regarding the fact that all UMS universities and the Law School were asked to enforce face covering requirements through the end of our exam period for all required indoor in-person academic activities, including classroom activities, lab work, performances, and course examinations.

Covid-19_Umaine Now: Keep Up The Health And Safety Precautions For Well-Being_April 27, 2022, Joan Ferrini-Mundy

Office of the President

Updates from Joan Ferrini-Mundy, University of Maine President, providing details about community guidance regarding COVID-19 at the University of Maine and the University of Maine at Machias.

The Women Of Owen Clinic And Their Impact On Rural Mental Health, Mallory Stanley

Manuscripts

The mid-1900s was a pivotal moment in reforming mental health treatment in American Psychiatry. This movement becomes particularly clear when examining the championing work of two women, Dr. Thelma V. Owen and Dr. M. G. Stemmermann, at a rural mental health facility located in Huntington, WV: Owen Clinic Institute. While mental health stigma was at an extreme high among the general population, many factors aligned to allow for a new era of mental health care, including deinstitutionalization, World War II, and the advocation of professionals in the field. In West Virginia, no two people were more outspoken and active in …