Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571; David Farmer at (207) 287-3531 ORONO — Citing the “essential” need for Maine policy makers to consider “management and policy decisions with the best available scientific information,” Maine Gov. John Baldacci has asked for a “Maine Climate Change Assessment” from scientists at the University of Maine. Researchers in UMaine’s […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The Fiscal Year 2008 Defense Appropriations Bill, approved last Thursday by the U.S. House of Representatives, includes $4 million in proposed funding to continue and expand a University of Maine research project that offers the promise of added safety for soldiers serving in combat. Congress has sent […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s winter overnight parking ban is in effect through May 1, 2008, according to the UMaine Parking Services Office. The annual ban became effective on Nov. 1. Staff, commuter and visitor parking areas are closed between midnight and 6 a.m during this period every […]
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Contact: Karen Hawkes at (207) 581-2443; Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO, Me. — The Sports Done Right Board of Directors granted MSAD 71 (Kennebunk, Kennebunkport), Five Town CSD (Appleton, Camden, Hope, Lincolnville, Rockport) and MSAD 28 (Camden, Rockport) full accreditation on Wednesday, Nov 7. Each district fulfilled and exceeded the necessary requirements to gain […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Maine Sen. Peter Mills (R-Skowhegan) will visit the University of Maine on Tuesday, Nov. 13 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Mills will spend the day at UMaine, meeting with students, faculty members and staff members. The Distinguished Maine […]
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Contact: Lois Berg Stack 207-581-2949 ORONO, Me. — University of Maine Cooperative Extension has published the 2008 version of its “North Country Garden Calendar,” always a popular item for holiday gift-giving. Developed by Cooperative Extension professors Lois Berg Stack and Leonard Perry of the Universities of Maine and Vermont, respectively, this year’s calendar features 12 […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine President Robert Kennedy has authorized a $1,000 reward for information leading to the positive identification of those responsible for flipping over a car in UMaine’s Stodder Hall parking lot early Monday morning. Police believe this happened during the campus celebration of the Boston Red […]
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Contact: Harold Daniel, (207) 581-1933; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine System Center for Tourism Research and Outreach (CenTRO) is holding its annual fall conference Nov. 9 to draw together a slate of state and national tourism authorities to asses the tourism outlook for 2008. The “Outlook for Tourism in Maine: […]
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Contact: Melanie Brooks at (207) 581-1700 ORONO — After years of researching, writing, and volunteering in homeless shelters, Pat LaMarche decided to go on a 14-day trip to 14 homeless shelters across America. The result is a series of vignettes that bring each shelter and its residents to life encompassed in the book, “Left Out […]
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Contact: Abbe Jacobs, (207) 866-6500; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Student Innovation Center, in partnership with the National Collegiate Innovators and Inventors Alliance, is bringing the Alliance’s “Invention 2 Venture” conference to campus Nov. 9. The workshop, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at Buchanan Alumni House, will focus on […]
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