BASS HARBOR, Maine — An ancient freshwater lake, now submerged under salt water off the coast of Mount Desert Island, offers insights into how Maine’s coastline was formed and how those areas that are now under water became habitable for the state’s earliest settlers.
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — As the University of Maine prepares to welcome its new first-year students later this month, an informative, exciting, lively Monday Aug. 23 open house will signal the start of the 2010-2011 student recruitment and admissions cycle. Labeled “Summer Tour 2010,” the event represents a new approach to […]
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Contact: Velma Figgins (207) 581-4358 ORONO — The New Media Innovation, Research and Development Center scheduled to open at UMaine in 2012 is being designed to help the state tap the multi-billion-dollar digital film, gaming and animation fields, which will lead to growth opportunities for the state’s new media companies and the university. “That this […]
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Contacts: Robert White, (207) 581-3113; Rod Bushway, (207) 581- 1626; Susan Sullivan, (207) 581-3130 ORONO, Maine – The University of Maine and the University of Vermont are joining forces this fall to offer a research-based online weight management course that helps college students develop healthy eating and exercise habits. “Vtrim Online” is a one-credit, semester-long […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Andrew Mahoney at (207) 581-4158 ORONO — University of Maine athletic director Blake James has accepted an offer to return to the University of Miami, where he worked in athletic administration from 1998-2001. UMaine’s AD since July 2005, James will leave in early September. “Blake has done an outstanding […]
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Contact: Mohsen Shahinpoor, (207) 581-2143; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — University of Maine mechanical engineers and their students are taking robotics to a whole new level with several new and ongoing research projects, including robotic surgery. By designing, configuring and testing smart computerized machinery composed of cables, circuits, electronic motors and servos, they hope […]
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Contact: Scott Wilkerson, (207) 581-3049 or scott.wilkerson@umit.maine.edu ORONO – The University of Maine Office of Facilities Management will begin early next week a multi-part project to improve stormwater management on campus and keep in compliance with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. Starting around Aug. 9, the Belgrade Spur Detention Pond will be dredged and […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Leah Pennino (LPennino@Review.com) or (508)663-5133 ORONO — The Princeton Review (http://www.princetonreview.com) has listed the University of Maine among “The Best 373 Colleges” in its annual directory of the country’s best institutions for undergraduate education. The Princeton’s Reviews 2011 edition of its annual guide hits newsstands today. This marks seven […]
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Contact: Darren Ranco, (207) 581-1801, William Livingston, (207) 581-2990; Robert Lilieholm, (207) 581-2896 ORONO. Maine — The emerald ash borer, which already has devastated ash tree populations in states like Michigan and Ohio, and is now found in New York and the province of Quebec, is threatening Maine’s ash and thousands of forest-related jobs, including […]
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Contact: Tom Mikotowicz (tom.mikotowicz@umit.maine.edu) ORONO — The University of Maine School of Performing Arts presents one of the most beloved theater musicals of all time, followed by an Agatha Christie murder mystery, when the first UMaine SPA Summer Music Theater Festival opens Friday, July 30. A group made up primarily of community members will perform […]
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