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As a native of Bangor, Marie earned her undergraduate degree in Political Science, with a minor in Public Administration and the Honors Program from the University of Maine. She returned to Bangor to practice law after she earned her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Maine School of Law. Today, Marie continues her legal practice on an Of Counsel basis in the areas of federal criminal appellate, mediation and Guardian Ad Litem work.

She began working at Husson in 2003, where she has delivered a variety of classes in over 24 topics ranging from introductory courses through graduate level. She has also presented courses for the Maine State Bar and at national conferences for Criminal Justice teachers and professionals.

Marie completed the Institute for Management and Leadership in Education at Harvard University in 2010 and attained Mastery level of Prior Learning Assessment through DePaul University. Currently, she is pursuing further doctoral studies in Organizational Behavior at the Chicago School for Professional Psychology.

Outside of Husson, she is the Past-President (2004) of the Penobscot County Bar Association (PCBA) and past Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Bangor Ballet. She continues to serve as a Director on the PCBA Board. Additionally, she is serving on the Advisory Committees for Hancock County Technical Center Criminal Justice Program and Biddeford Regional Technical Center.

Having worked with legal professionals, I understand that the key to education at the college level is to learn how to perform the work hands-on. While it is imperative to have a background from text books to learn the law, in order to apply this knowledge, one must see the legal world in action. In both the Criminal Justice and Paralegal Studies Programs, I endeavor to find full time and adjunct instructors that bring this philosophy to life in the classroom as I do. One has to love what they do to be ready to do a job everyday and the exposure that students will gain from both programs will help them find that energy.

David Haus earned his B.A. in American Studies from Penn State University, and he is a graduate of the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State. He earned his M.A. in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University, focusing on Early American History and Culture. He earned his Ph.D. in History at Bowling Green State University, focusing on 20th Century U.S. Policy History. He has minor fields in Latin American History and the History of Modern Japan.

Before coming to Husson David served as an Instructor of History and Distance Learning at Bowling Green State University and Assistant Professor of History at Bluefield State College. He has held several administrative posts during his career including Faculty Senate Chair, Associate Dean of Assessment and Distance Learning, and Dean of Arts and Sciences. He serves as a Social Studies education program Curriculum Reviewer for the West Virginia Department of Education and a certified Quality Matters reviewer. He is the co-founder and former editor of H-Policy. David designed and continues to offer his Social Studies Content Licensure preparation seminars to teacher education students at several institutions in the United States. The program is designed to help students prepare for exams such as the Praxis II: Social Studies Content Exam offered by ETS.

David is currently working on his scholarly monograph "Radio Is an Extension of the Home: Protecting Private Space from Public Vulgarity, 1929-1935". It re-examines the public debate between commercial interests and educational reformers over the organization and control of radio in the early 1930s. Other scholars have explored this moment in American history, arguing that the National Committee on Education by Radio stood little chance for success because of its own ineptitude before a powerful commercial radio industry. My work attempts to make sense of the NCER’s choices and motivations in the struggle for educational radio while examining the broader implications of the NCER’s arguments on our understanding of New Deal politics, associationalism, gender, and consumerism. I conclude that the NCER was a progressive group that watched the very progressive machinery its members once supported quash its campaign for radio reform and alter its conception of democracy, as federal regulators devalued its expertise and sacrificed educational radio at the altar of the New Deal. However, I contend that the NCER posed a greater threat to the commercial industry than other scholars have found, and it could have succeeded under different circumstances. The NCER fought against the conflation of consumerism and democracy while fighting to stave off what it saw as cultural domination by the East coast, and it compels us to rethink the nature and periodization of progressivism and the centrality of radio in the context of urban-rural conflict of the 1920s and 1930s.

Dr. Derek Hoelz joined Husson University School of Pharmacy as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology in August, 2012. He earned a B.A. in Biology from Kent State University and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Hoelz completed postdoctoral training in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Indiana University School of Medicine.

After his postdoctoral training Dr. Hoelz transitioned into his first faculty position at Indiana University School of Medicine, during which time he co-founded a biotechnology company (CS-Keys, Inc.), which sought to develop more effective cancer diagnostics. In 2009, Dr. Hoelz joined the Maine Institute for Human Genetics and Health as a staff Scientist where he led a successful research laboratory investigating novel anticancer drug targets. Dr. Hoelz has been awarded numerous patents for his research, has authored several research articles, and has been awarded multiple research grants.

Christine has been an occupational therapist for 20 years, beginning in MA and then moving to ME in 1993. Her clinical practice includes pediatrics and psychiatry. Hubbard had the opportunity to begin her teaching career at KVCC in the OTA program. She then spent some time teaching at Lewiston Auburn College, USM. Christine joined the Husson Occupational Therapy faculty in September 2006 to teach pediatrics. She lives with her husband, 2 children, and 5 horses southwest of Bangor.

I joined the faculty at Husson because I have found it to be an exciting and dynamic environment where students and faculty learn and develop together.