Contact: Media contact: Amos Orcutt, President/CEO, University of Maine Foundation, 800.982.8503 At the 2003 Annual Meeting of the University of Maine Foundation, Robert W. Daigle was elected Chair of the Board for 2003-2004. A Camden resident, Mr. Daigle is a 1971 graduate of The University of Maine and is President and CEO of Camden National […]
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Contact: Media contacts: Joe Carr, University of Maine, 581-3571; Joyce Peterson, The Jackson Laboratory, 288-6058 WHEN: Thursday, October 23, 2003, 10:30 a.m. WHERE: Buchanan Alumni House, University of Maine, Orono WHO: Robert A. Kennedy, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Provost, University of Maine Susan R. McKay, Ph.D., Professor of Physics and Director of the Center […]
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Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO, Me. — University of Maine students, employees and alumni will gather at UMaine’s Buchanan Alumni House on Friday, Oct. 24 at 2 p.m. for a festive event marking the unveiling of the new UMaine Black Bear license plate. The plates will be widely available for sale […]
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Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Seniors across Maine will benefit from a new University of Maine Center on Aging program funded by a $1.3 million Corporation for National and Community Service federal grant. UMaine won the grant in a national competition for federal funding to address community needs through service. […]
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Contact: Media contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777; Richard Judd, Dept. of History, 207-581-1910; Christopher Beach, Unity College, 207-948-3131, ext. 315. ORONO, Maine — With campaigns over landfills, dams, endangered species and other issues, environmental activism came of age in the latter part of the 19th century. The movement grew out of historical […]
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Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Noted scientist and teacher Joyce Longcore identified fungi responsible for a world-wide depletion of amphibians. Dahlov Ipcar began her artist career as a WPA muralist and later wrote and illustrated over thirty children’s books. Mother of six, Lillian O’Brien is a state legislator and a […]
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Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A group of approximately 45 University of Maine students — all but five of them undergraduate business majors — will travel to Portland on Friday, Oct. 17 for a Portland Marketing Association (PMA) forum “Understanding the Value of Market Research.” This is the first event […]
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Contact: Contact: Amos Orcutt, University of Maine Foundation – 581-5100; Donna Thornton, The University of Maine Alumni Association – 581-1134 Orono, Maine — Congressman Clifford G. McIntire, University of Maine Class of 1930, was honored posthumously on October 8 in a ceremony at the University’s new Buchanan Alumni House for his vision and leadership in […]
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Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine Cooperative Extension, working with staff from the Maine Dept. of Agriculture and the federal agency Resource Conservation and Development, has organized a goat and sheep auction for Saturday, Oct. 11 in Corinth. The auction, which is intended to connect producers with new […]
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Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Two new art exhibitions will open at the University of Maine’s Carnegie Hall on Oct. 17. The shows, which include drawings and paintings, will continue through Dec. 1. “In the City — States of Mind”, the drawings of New York artist Robert Birmelin will be […]
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