Contact: Mary Cathcart at (207) 866-3054; Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — When your represent the ratio of women to men who have served in the U.S. Congress as a pie chart, it looks less like pie and more like a cheese wheel with a sliver missing. Between 1796 and 2001, 206 women have […]
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Contact: Carolyn Ball, (207) 581-4142 ORONO — The University of Maine is again offering graduate-level Masters in Public Administration courses in Augusta in September for working professionals and recent college graduates working or interested in working in government or non-profit fields. The three courses are: City & Regional Planning; Accountability in Public Policy & Administration; […]
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Contact: Shannon Risk, 845-661-9130; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine Ph.D. candidate Shannon Risk has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship to study cultural and intellectual history in Canada for the 2008-2009 academic year. Researching at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Risk will assess the women’s suffrage movements in New Brunswick and Maine. […]
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Contact: Carol Kim, (207) 581-2803 ORONO University of Maine microbiologist Carol H. Kim has been named the director of UMaine’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS). Kim, an associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, has expertise in molecular virology and host response to infectious disease. In her current research, […]
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Contact: Annette Brickley (207) 990-2900 ext. 2; Deirdre Byrne (207) 581-4324; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — The University of Maine and the Challenger Learning Center of Bangor have launched a professional development program designed to help the state’s middle and high school educators learn how to use climate change as novel way to teach […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100 ORONO — More than 115 farms throughout Maine — including the UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum — will open their doors to the public as Maine celebrates Open Farm Day on Sunday, July 20. Activities at the Orono farm and home museum, located in the last original agricultural building on […]
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Contact: Amy Blackstone, 581-2392; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine assistant professor of sociology Amy Blackstone has received the Outstanding Research Proposal from a Feminist Perspective Award from the Feminism and Family Studies Section of the National Council on Family Relations. The research proposal is a study and survey of child-free adults and their decisions […]
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Contact: Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — Robert Rice, a professor of wood science in the University of Maine’s School of Forest Resources, was recently elected a 2008 fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science. A UMaine faculty member for 17 years, Rice has published more than 60 research papers on the physics of […]
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Contact: Al Bushway, 581-1629; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — First, the Federal Food and Drug Administration suspected raw tomatoes. Then it added jalapeno peppers, cilantro and serrano peppers — the raw ingredients for salsa — to the list of possible sources of the current salmonella food poisoning outbreaks in 41 states, including Maine. More than […]
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Contact: Prof. Brian Robinson (581-2174) or Prof. Lisa Neuman (581-4489) MACHIAS — The University of Maine’s annual archaeological field school is underway this summer on Machias Bay in eastern Maine. The field school offers nine UMaine students and a small group of volunteers a month- long intensive field work experience focusing on the excavation of […]
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