Three 2010 University of Maine graduates are partnering with the Maine Business School and the Foster Center for Student Innovation to create the first annual Maine Business Challenge, a competition to financially assist student entrepreneurs from UMaine to start a business.
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Comments from UMaine Cooperative Extension Educator Renae Moran were included in a Portland Press Herald report about this year’s apple crop in Maine. Moran said growers lost 10 percent of fruit due to high winds from last month’s Hurricane Irene, but most Maine orchards have a large apple crop that is ripening on schedule. Contact: […]
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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News included an editorial column by UMaine political scientist Amy Fried, who wrote about how people remember major events such as the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Fried wrote that it is important to remember such events within a broader context, and to not do so marks a lack of intellectual and civic […]
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The website Futurity.com had a story about a recent study, which included UMaine research, that looked at drill cores taken from Greenland’s ice sheet to determine that Earth’s climate is capable of very rapid transitions. UMaine Ph.D. candidate Aaron Putnam contributed research to the project, which was led by Cardiff University in Wales, U.K. The […]
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Anette Ruppel Rodrigues, a UMaine adjunct faculty member in German, was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News story about a play being performed starting Friday at Hauck Auditorium on the UMaine campus. Rodrigues translated the play, “The Hessian Officer in America,” from the original German into English. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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A series of late-September University of Maine presentations, with an accompanying online discussion forum, will enhance community dialogue related to the impact of evolving communications technologies on humanities scholarship.
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University of Maine Ph.D. student Robert Gee has received a Fulbright Award to conduct research at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is spending nine months at Dalhousie researching a project titled “Tangled Trawls: International Natural Resource Management in the Northwest Atlantic Fishery.”
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University of Maine faculty members Constanza Ocampo-Raeder and Maria Sandweiss will present September lectures at Bangor Public Library. Their talks will be part of the Centro Hispano – The Hispanic Center of Bangor 2011 lecture series. That organization works to inform the community about Hispanic heritage and culture. Ocampo-Raeder, a professor in UMaine’s Dept. of […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension horticulturist Kate Garland was interviewed for a Channel 2 (WLBZ) news report on fall gardening and lawn care tips as fall weather turns cooler and area residents prepare to put their gardens to bed for winter. She suggests pulling weeds to prevent a weed seed bed from becoming established and […]
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UMaine Cooperative Extension was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News story about projections for the fall Aroostook County potato crop. According to Extension, the story said, late blight was found in potato fields in Bridgewater, Caribou, Fort Fairfield, Limestone and Caswell. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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