Contact: Randy Alford, 581-2964; Linda Ives, 581-2522; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — “I’ve got one alive and two dead. Do they normally lie on their back like that?” asks a high school girl in a University of Maine Upward Bound class. “How do I know they’re really dead?” She peers into a screen box with […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Working all night, napping on the production room floor and letting other work slide was just part of the sacrifice by two dozen University of Maine film students whose efforts are being rewarded July 10 with the debut of their movie at the Maine International Film Festival […]
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Contact: Roger LeB. Hooke, Dept. of Earth Sciences, 207-581-2203 (office), 207-348-6933 (home), rhooke@acadia.netNick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777, houtman@maine.edu ORONO, Maine — Think of large earth moving projects: highway interchanges, coal mines or Boston’s Big Dig. According to Roger LeBaron Hooke, a University of Maine scientist, such activities have propelled humans into becoming arguably […]
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Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO– Travis Hamel of Milford, a junior in the University of Maine Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received a first place award in the Bentley Education Network (BEN) Student Design Competition, Animation and Freeform/Artistic Expression Category. Hamel’s entry was a 3D rendering of a 1947 Willys […]
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Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777, houtman@maine.edu ORONO– Colin Stewart of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension will receive an Achievement Award from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents at its 89th Annual Meeting and Professional Improvement Conference in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday, July 13. Stewart will be honored for his service […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571Nick Houtman at (207) 581-37771 ORONO, Maine — The Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy at the University of Maine has received a $400,000 Congressional award to fund the Maine Rural Substance Abuse Partnership. The partnership includes community-based prevention, education, and treatment initiatives in Washington County linked to a […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — It comes as little surprise that the majority of young people leaving Maine after college do so in pursuit of better jobs and higher pay, but research by two UMaine graduate students shows cultural attractions also serve as a virtual Pied Piper of Hamelin leading youth away. […]
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Contact: Carla Ganiel at (207) 581-3326 ORONO — The University of Maine Cooperative Extension (UMCE) Senior Companion Program (SCP) is the recipient of a $500 grant from the Bangor Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart officials Don Emmons and Allison Carson presented the grant award to SCP Project Director Carla Ganiel and AmeriCorps VISTA member Susan McNerney on June […]
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Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761ORONO, Maine — The first graduates of a federally funded master’s degree program at the University of Maine are bringing new ideas and leadership capacity to agencies serving young children with disabilities and their families. The U.S. Department of Education grant — Training Options for […]
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Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777, houtman@maine.edu ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine will dedicate the Jacob Shur Research Facility in Crystal, Maine at 1 p.m. Thursday, June 24. A gift from Island Falls potato grower Arthur Shur, the facility will provide space for UMaine scientists to apply advanced tissue culture techniques […]
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