Contacts: Hon. Mary Cathcart, 944-1411 ORONO — Two dozen college women participating in this year’s Maine NEW Leadership Program June 3-8 will receive graduation certificates today following the day’s final panel discussions at the University of Maine. The young women, from colleges and institutions throughout Maine, will be available to discuss their experiences and share […]
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Contact: Tracy Bigney 973-3234; Peggy Markson 973-3245 BANGOR—The University of Maine System announced today the members of a search committee tasked with making recommendations for the next leader for the System’s land grant and sea grant institution located in Orono. Earlier this year, UMaine President Robert Kennedy announced his intention to step down from the […]
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Contacts: Jessica Leahy, 581-2834; Marilynne Mann, 581-3110 ORONO — The formation all-terrain vehicle (ATV) rider clubs throughout Maine has garnered social capital returns, including improved image and relations with private landowners, according to a recent study by two University of Maine researchers who focus on human-environment interactions. The study explored the purpose of such clubs, […]
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Contact: Eric Gallandt, 581-2933 ORONO — For home gardeners, weeds are a nuisance, but for small-scale growers, they can threaten crops and profitability by sucking up time, labor and money. Though the number of such farmers has grown nationwide, weed-management technology hasn’t kept up. UMaine associate professor of weed ecology and management Eric Gallandt and […]
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Contact: Stephanie Welcomer, 581-1931 ORONO — In more than a decade of public debate about the future of Maine’s forestlands, sustainability has been a linchpin, with stakeholders arguing that it be either reinvented or restored, depending on their view of human-nature relationships. In a new study aimed at better understanding the environmental issues at stake, […]
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Contact: Susan Bennett-Armistead, 581-2418 ORONO — The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development has awarded Susan Bennett-Armistead the Correll Professorship in Early Literacy. Bennett-Armistead is an assistant professor of literacy area programs and an authority on early literacy and young children’s language and literacy acquisition. Her appointment was made possible the generosity […]
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Contact: Harold Daniel, 581- 1933; Heather McCarthy, (207) 992-2630 ORONO — The three-day American Folk Festival last year contributed $8.7 million to the Greater Bangor economy, in spite of heavy rain keeping crowds away on one of the days, according to an analysis by the University of Maine-based Center for Tourism Research and Outreach. A […]
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Contact: Brian Robinson, (207) 581-2174 ORONO – University of UMaine anthropologist Brian Robinson and colleagues are looking at archaeological evidence of Atlantic salmon to better understand the effects of global warming. The researchers found traces of Atlantic salmon from 400, 3,000 and 6,000 years ago, with the earliest periods being warmer than present and relatively […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Prof. Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, will travel to Norway this weekend to join an exclusive fraternity of esteemed climate scientists to receive the International Glaciological Society’s (IGS) Seligman Crystal. Since the award was first presented in 1963 — to its […]
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Contact: Linda Healy (207) 563-3146, ext. 200 WALPOLE — A three- day August program at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC), will give high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to learn about marine science academic and career options. Dive In! is a new overnight program at DMC, a UMaine marine science laboratory […]
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