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Jennifer Reid, Professor of Religion,

Wins Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

Jennifer Reid has been named a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow by the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundaton. This prestgious award is given to mid-
career scholars for impressive career achievement and exceptonal promise
for future accomplishments.

Reid was selected for her research on indigenous peoples the world over
who are struggling for legal recogniton of their land claims, according to a
Portland Press Herald artcle. With the support of the fellowship, Reid intends to contnue with her research and
learn what role religious scholars can play in legal adjudicaton of indigenous land claims. Reid has previously
received a Maine Humanites Council / Natonal Endowment for the Arts grant. She is currently a researcher with
the Niwano Peace Foundaton’s New Archê & World Peace Project, Tokyo.

Jared Cash Brings New Vision Appointed by Governor, Professor
as Vice President for Enrollment Sheena Bunnell Helps to Forecast
Maine’s Economy
UMF President Kate Foster
recently announced the Sheena Bunnell, UMF professor of business economics,
appointment of Jared J. has been selected as a gubernatorial appointee to the
Cash as UMF’s interim fve-member Maine Consensus Economic Forecastng
vice president for Commission, as reported by the Sun Journal. This
enrollment. Cash comes independent group of economists is charged with
to UMF from the Senator forecastng Maine’s economy for the beneft of the
George J. Mitchell Insttute Governor and the State Legislature.
for Scholarship and
Research where he served Russell Caron Bunnell has taught at
as scholarship director. UMF since 1992 and is

Cash will direct the the director of the Maine
Health Research Insttute
University’s strategic at UMF. She also serves on
enrollment actvites, providing oversight and the Franklin County Health
leadership to all enrollment functons, including Network and University of
admissions, fnancial aid and marketng/ Maine System Investment
communicatons, as stated in the Sun Journal. Prior to Funds boards.
his UMF appointment, Cash was a member of UMF’s
Board of Visitors and served in the Admission Ofce at
Bates College.

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