Wendy Mitchell, a staff member at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College in Lewiston, participates in the college’s Husky Day of Service on Friday by moving a large pile of leaf mulch at St Mary’s Nutrition Center Community Garden in Lewiston. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal) Wendy Mitchell, Judith Ross, Garrett Derb, Jordan O’Hearn, Chip Earle, […]
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L-A College dean Gibson wins award for courage
LEWISTON — The dean of the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College has won a significant award from the University of Maine School of Law, the university announced Tuesday. Dean Joyce Gibson will receive the 2018 Courage is Contagious Award on Thursday night at USM’s Abromson Center in Portland. Gibson is the third recipient of […]
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USM president to staff, students: ‘We need you’
LEWISTON — One day before Dr. Glenn Cummings will be inaugurated the 13th president of the University of Southern Maine, a major university event with academic regalia, Cummings came to Lewiston to talk about the vital role higher education has for workers. A former state legislator and University of Maine at Augusta president, Cummings’ message […]
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L-A College renovating nursing, OT classrooms
LEWISTON — A $600,000 modernization of laboratory and simulation spaces is underway at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College. The work, scheduled to be completed in August, will expand the capacity of the high-demand Bachelor of Science in nursing, and the Master of Occupational Therapy programs, according to a news release from the college. An estimated […]
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Lewiston-Auburn College facing changes
LEWISTON — Changes may be coming to University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College. USM President Theodora Kalikow has proposed dropping arts and humanities — one of L-A College’s four undergraduate programs — restructuring staff and cutting an unspecified number of faculty from the college as part of a USM-wide effort to fill a $14 million […]
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L-A College course looks at the science behind the brew
LEWISTON — A new class offered this fall at L-A College is dedicated to the idea that there’s much more to the beer in that mug than suds. “A person may not think, when they are at home brewing something up in their little home brew system, that they’re doing science,” Dan Stasko, associate professor […]