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A University of Maine at Presque Isle English professor and published poet has just had one of her works published in Maine. The Magazine. Dr. Melissa Crowe also recently received the inaugural Betsy Sholl Award for Excellence in Poetry by the University of Southern Maine’s Words & Images magazine.

Dr. Crowe’s poem Epithalamium with Humming Bird was published in the February 2012 special wedding issue of Maine magazine. The inspiration for her poem came from a newspaper clipping sent by a friend that mentioned a ‘lost periwinkler.’ “Though this poor soul was most likely gathering mollusks by the seashore,” the magazine quoted Crowe as saying, “I imagined a wanderer found with pockets full of tiny purple-blue flowers.”

Officials with the University of Maine at Presque Isle hosted a website unveiling at 10 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 17 in the Campus Center to celebrate more than three years of work to create an interactive and searchable web-based map of the Fairmont Cemetery.

This first-of-its-kind project in Maine was conducted by UMPI’s GIS Laboratory and a team of UMPI researchers working in partnership with the Fairmont Cemetery Association and the Presque Isle Historical Society. The new website serves as an important resource for historians, researchers and those conducting family genealogy, and also preserves the historical data that is found at the cemetery for future generations. The Fairmont Cemetery, established in the 19th century, represents one of the oldest and largest graveyards in northern Maine.

Three hundred and ten students at the University of Maine at Presque Isle have been named to the Dean’s List for the fall semester, according to Dr. Michael Sonntag, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.

Officials with the University of Maine at Presque Isle hosted delegates from Siyuan University, located in in Xi’an, China, on Feb. 7 and 8 during a visit meant to strengthen connections and explore new partnerships between the two institutions.

Mr. Yanbo Zhou, Chairman of the Siyuan University Board, and Mr. Hualong Tong, Deputy Director of International Cooperation and Exchange at Siyuan University, spent two days at UMPI as part of a larger, 2-week visit to the United States to meet with universities and government officials and develop educational connections. In addition to their stop in Presque Isle, their itinerary is expected to include visits in Massachusetts, Minnesota and New Mexico.

The University of Maine at Presque Isle’s GIS Laboratory has provided 15 central Aroostook County cities and towns with technologically advanced tools that are helping them to better manage their land parcels and create efficiencies in their tax assessing, planning and development, and land and forest management efforts.

The GIS Laboratory was able to complete this project at no cost to the municipalities thanks to a $12,000 grant it received from the Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems [MEGIS]. The project, “Central Aroostook Parcel GIS Mapping Project”, was headed by Dr. Chunzeng Wang, UMPI Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Science. It is the area’s first large-scale land parcel GIS mapping project.