Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — The National Youth Sports Program (NYSP), which has offered free summer camp experiences to area youth for 13 years at the University of Maine, is among programs eliminated in recent federal budget cuts. While the University will work with the Maine Congressional delegation to restore funding […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 BOSTON–Former Maine state Sen. Mary R. Cathcart of Orono became chair of the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) on Feb. 25. Cathcart served three terms in the Maine House of Representatives and four terms in the Maine Senate representing communities in Penobscot County before she was term-limited […]
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Contact: Christopher V. Davis, 207-581-2263 The Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center is offering $5,000-$25,000 grants to parties that wish to pursue research that will improve Maine’s economy through the advancement of the commercial and public aquaculture. Potential applicants include production farms, individual water farmers, vendors to the Maine aquaculture industry, non-profit organizations, municipalities (including shellfish committees), […]
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Contact: Frank S. Wertheim, Extension Educator, 1-800-287-1535 AUBURN–The 13th Annual Maine Garden Day will take place on Saturday, April 8 at Central Maine Community College in Auburn. Maine Garden Day, sponsored by University of Maine Cooperative Extension, is the largest one-day educational home gardening workshop event in Maine. Over thirty workshops will be offered on […]
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Contact: Edwin Nagy, 581-2981; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine engineering students and faculty displayed their art masterpieces in the annual “Art by Engineers” exhibit, held in the Engineering and Science Research Building through the month of February, to celebrate the relationship between science and art. The second annual show was put on by the […]
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Contact: Susan White (207) 581-1442; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – After more than 25 years in Coburn Hall, the Maine Sea Grant College Program has moved to building 6 in York Complex (formerly York Village). The new address is: 5784 York Complex. All phone numbers and e-mail addresses of staff will remain the […]
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Contact: Catherine Schmitt (207) 581-2434: Dave Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine –The National Sea Grant College Program has just announced that three graduates of the University of Maine System have received prestigious Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships. More than 100 graduate students from throughout the country competed for the 10 positions available in […]
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Contact: Larry Mayer (207) 581-3321; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – While working on problems facing the clamming industry in mud flats, UMaine oceanographer Larry Mayer began to more fully appreciate the important connection between the preservation of organic matter and the presence of clays. He pursued this connection into the Gulf of Maine, […]
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Contact: Lauren Swett (207) 581-2185; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — More than 50 of Maine’s top engineering firms, engineering schools, government agencies and industries will be on hand on Saturday, March 4, at the UMaine Field House in Orono for the 2006 Engineering Expo. The event will feature a variety of engineering-related demonstrations […]
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Contact: Michael Robbins (207) 581-2051; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – Psychology professors Merrill Elias, Michael Robbins, and Penelope Elias are continuing their study of the relationship between high blood pressure and cognitive skills thanks to a $680,619 grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The project’s latest manifestation will […]
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