Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Maine Attorney General Steven Rowe will provide a keynote talk on Tuesday, Sept. 12 when the University of Maine formally adopts its Relationship Abuse and the Workplace Policy. UMaine President Robert A. Kennedy will speak and sign the policy at 10:15 a.m. at Buchanan Alumni House. Rowe’s […]
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Contact: Richard Brzozowski , 207- 780-4205 BRUNSWICK, Me. –University of Maine Cooperative Extension will sponsor the Maine Shepherd School, a two-day course with a theme of “Raising Sheep for Profit.” The course is set for Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13 and 14 in Brunswick. Mike Caskey of Minnesota
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Contact: John Jemison, Jr., Extension Professor, Water Quality and Soil Science, jjemison@umext.maine.edu, 207-581-3241 OAKLAND, Me.–University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer “Sustainability for ME.,” a six-week program beginning on Wednesday Sept. 13 at Messalonskee High School in Oakland. Sessions are scheduled for 6:30-9 p.m. Wednesdays through Oct. 18. The “Sustainability for ME” course will demonstrate […]
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Contact: Doug Allen, 581-3860; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Socialist-Marxist Studies Lecture Series for fall 2006 offers a schedule of controversial and thought-provoking lectures on topics ranging from the events and crises in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Bosnia and Latin and South America to the degradation of civil liberties in a post-911 […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — State Senate President Beth Edmonds (D-Freeport) will visit the University of Maine on Thursday, Sept. 14 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Edmonds will spend the day at UMaine, meeting with students, faculty members and staff members. The Distinguished […]
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Contact: Cathy Billings, Lobster Institute
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Contact: Yifeng Zhu (207) 581-2499; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — UMaine Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Yifeng Zhu’s latest research project promises to increase the speed and efficiency of supercomputers by improving the access speed of hard disks. Disks are the slowest components of supercomputers, and can be a major obstacle to improving […]
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Contact: Mary Jane Perry (207) 581-3321; David Munson (207) 581-3777 Mary Jane Perry, a professor of marine sciences and oceanography at UMaine’s Darling Marine Center and a pioneer in the use of autonomous underwater gliders for remote research, deployed the university’s first such glider into the chilly waters of the Gulf of Maine with the […]
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Contact: Al Bushway (207) 581-1629; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – UMaine’s Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition was recently named the recipient of the Mettler Toledo Food Science and Education Grant. The award consists of more than $60,000 in research equipment and software. Mettler Toledo, a leading supplier of laboratory instruments, chose […]
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Contact: Joe Kelley (207) 581-2162; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – University of Maine Earth science students Elizabet Metcalfe and Laura Brothers spent the summer kayaking along miles of quiet coves and windswept peninsulas in an effort to map the fragile bluffs along the Maine coast. But this was no leisurely sightseeing trek. Working […]
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