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Me: *allows students to use study guides as notes while taking tests in the course*

Student: Can we get a practice test?

Me:

Fall 2020 outlook: new students, new courses, new circumstances

Fall 2020 is the beginning of my second year as an assistant professor at the University of Maine, but in some aspects, it feels like my first year.

The most prominent visual which evokes this feeling is the new office I just moved into last week. My new office space overlooks my two renovated lab spacesand allows me to witness the first official Ishaq Lab research take shape. My first…

Looking back on my first year as an assistant professor

Almost year ago, I woke up early to drive an hour and a half from the place I was staying to the University of Maine campus in Orono. My housing had fallen through after I had driven across country from Oregon to Maine, and apartments were difficult to find as students were returning for the fall semester. I took my highway exit, and almost immediately joined a mile and a half long line of cars…

CPHHS welcomes new faculty

The College of Public Health and Human Sciences is pleased to announce the recent addition of three new faculty members and the upcoming appointment of another early next year. Assistant Professor Jennifer Jackson Jennifer Jackson is a new clinical assistant professor in Nutrition. She completed her postdoctoral training at Oregon State, where she conducted community-based and epidemiological…

University News Briefs . . .

Director receives appointment to college board Davida Harrell-Williams, director of Norfolk State’s Auxiliary Services, has been appointed to serve on the Paul D. Camp Community College Local Board representing the city of Suffolk. Harrell-Williams will finish the term of a board member who recently resigned, whose term would have expired June 2017. Harrell-Williams joins an outstanding group of…