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UMaine announces Hartman recipients

Scientist, illustrator honored at Buchanan Alumni House

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The University of Maine announced the Maryann Hartman Award recipients for Maine women of achievement. The awards will be presented Oct. 23 at 5 p.m. at the Buchanan Alumni House.

Noted scientist and teacher Joyce Longcore identified fungi responsible for a world-wide depletion of amphibians.

Dahlov Ipcar began her career as a WPA muralist and later wrote and illustrated more than 30 children’s books.

Mother of six, Lillian O’Brien is a state legislator and a town councilor who has worked for more than 40 years to improve the lives of battered women, unemployed millworkers, and Somali immigrants, among others.

They will be joined by Mallory Cyr, a civil rights and disabilities rights activist, who will receive the third annual Young Women’s Social Justice Award. The award is sponsored by the UMaine Women in the Curriculum and Women’s Studies Program.

Compiled from staff reports

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