Faculty

(Listed alphabetically by last name)

 

 

Anne Bardaglio, English and History

 

Inspiration:

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day"

 

Related Activities:

 

Publicist/Storyteller, TEDxDirigo (2012—present)
Outer Islands Education Coordinator, Island Institute, Rockland, Maine (2010—2012)
“No School is an Island: The Outer Islands’ Inter-Island Classroom” The Island Journal, 28, Spring 2012
“The Modern Day One-Room School” The Island Journal, 27, Spring 2011
Graduate Teaching Assistant and University Fellow, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (2008—2010)
“Wild Ones” River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, 11.2, Spring 2010
Volunteer Writing Coach, Metro Early College High School/Mosaic, Columbus, Ohio (2009—2010)
Editorial Reader, River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative (2009—2010)
“Days Like This: One Teacher’s Struggle on Matinicus Island” Salt: The Magazine, Fall 2009
Matinicus Island Education Fellow, Island Institute, Matinicus Island, Maine (2007—2008)

 

 

Education:

The Institute for Civic Leadership, Leadership Intensive, Portland, Maine (2012)
M.F.A., Creative Writing, The Ohio State University (2011)
The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Portland, Maine (Fall 2006)
B.A., Women’s Studies, Peace Studies, History (Interdisciplinary Major), Goucher College (2005)
School for International Training, Rabat, Morocco (Spring 2004)
 
 
 

James Beckwith, Mathematics

 

Inspiration:

"Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back. 

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference."

                            ~Robert Frost

 

Related Activities:

Math/History Teacher, Pine Tree Academy, Maine (1967-1972, 1983-2008)

Math/History Teacher, Grand Ledge Academy, Michigan (1972-1977); Lansing Community College, Michigan (1976-1977)

Trip Leader, Cycle tour of Lac Saint-Jean, Quebec (2008, 2010)

Boys Director, Camp Ausable, Michigan (1975-1976); Camp Lawroweld, Maine (1968-1970)

Solo Cycle Tours in Maine (2001, 2007),  Scandinavia (2006), and Canadian Maritimes (1998)

 

Education:

B.A., History, Atlantic Union College (1967)

M.A.T., Math, Michigan State University (1975)

 

 

Elizabeth Halliday, Marine Science

 

Inspiration:

“Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life…” – Rachel Carson

 

Related Activities:
 United States Antarctic Program, mixotrophy research in the Ross Sea (2011)
Lecturer, Biological Oceanography, WHOI Ocean Research Experiences (ORE) for liberal arts undergraduates (2011)

Dissertation field work at Provincetown Harbor, MA (2010) and the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Wells, ME (2009)
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Mentor (2009-2011)

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Environmental Science at the University of Maryland

Outdoor Trip Leader at the University of Maryland Outdoor Recreational Center (2004-2007)

NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (2005)

Education:
 
Ph.D., Biological Oceanography, MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (2012)

MIT Graduate Student Teaching Certificate (2011)

Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop (2011)

B.S., Biological Sciences with Honors of Humanities, University of Maryland College Park (2007)

Field Course in Advanced Marine Ecology, Calvi, Corsica (2006)

Joint Study Exchange Student, University of Vienna, Austria (Academic Year 2005/2006)

 

 

Noël Thibodeau, French and Spanish

 

Inspiration:

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.  Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." ~Chinese Proverb

 

Related Activities:

 French/Spanish Faculty, Drama Moderator, St. Dominic Regional High School, Auburn, Maine (1999 - 2009)

 French/Spanish Faculty, Holy Name Catholic Jr. Sr. High School, Worcester, Massachusetts (1997 - 1999)


Education

 M.A. in Teaching, French, University of Maine-Orono (1997)

 Coursework at L'Universite du Maine, Le Mans, France (1997)

 Coursework at L'Universite de Paris X, Nanterre, France (1989 - 1990)

 B.A., Romance Languages with Theatre minor, University of Maine-Orono (1993)

 

 

 

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