Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO, Me. — Evelyn Silver, director of Equal Opportunity at the University of Maine, has been named Associate Vice President for Personnel and Academic Services at UMaine. The appointment, announced today by UMaine Executive Vice President and Provost Robert Kennedy, was approved by the University of Maine […]
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Contact: Media contact: Ronald Davis, Professor of Biology, 207-866-4785 (home), 207-659-6585 (cell); Nick Houtman, Dept, of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO– Walking in a peat bog usually means picking one’s way gingerly across a soggy, spongy landscape. Now, with the opening of the Orono Bog Boardwalk on Monday, June 23, families and people in wheelchairs can […]
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Contact: Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Some of the country’s most notable adult reading researchers will address participants at the Maine Adult Education Summer Institute, scheduled for June 23-25 at the University of Maine. Leaders such as Sondra Stein, director of the Equipped for the Future adult learning standards development project […]
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Contact: Media contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO, Maine — United States Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman has presented the department’s most prestigious award to Darrell Donahue of Old Town, a University of Maine engineer, for his role in a multi-state research project. Donahue’s research is leading to new technology that maintains […]
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Contact: Media contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine –The University of Maine Upward Bound program will welcome approximately 150 high school sophomores, juniors and seniors Saturday, June 21, as they begin a six-week academic and career exploration experience. The majority of the students (100) are in the Classic Upward Bound general academic support […]
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Contact: Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Orono, ME — Bicycle patrol officers from municipal police departments and campus public safety officers throughout New England will be at The University of Maine on through June 20 to learn how better to combine law enforcement with cycling. The UMaine Department of Public Safety Department is sponsoring […]
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Contact: Contact: Habib Dagher, Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center, 207-581-2138; Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO, Maine — The Advanced Engineered Wood Composites (AEWC) Center at the University of Maine will expand its research laboratories, add a small conference facility and provide space for a new student entrepreneurship program as a result of […]
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Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A seven-year research project that will culminate in the publication of the “Historical Atlas of Maine” has received a $293,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The two-year grant to the University of Maine, where the atlas is being developed, will allow […]
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Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Ann Leffler, Ph.D., associate dean of the Utah State University College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, has been named dean of the University of Maine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The University of Maine System Board of Trustees approved her appointment earlier this […]
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Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571; Richard Brzozowski at (207) 780-4205 ORONO — Recognizing the acute need for trained seasonal workers for Maine farms, coupled with the interest among immigrant and other populations in finding such jobs, University of Maine Cooperative Extension is launching an innovative program to match workers with opportunities. The […]
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