The Center for Undergraduate Research at the University of Maine has announced the recipients of the Center for Undergraduate Research Fellowships for 2012–13. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty supervised research, and are supported through a PRE-VUE grant awarded by the UMaine President’s Office. Each fellowship provides a […]
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The University of Maine Museum of Art, 40 Harlow St., Bangor is inviting the public to a free informal gallery talk with museum educator Eva Wagner at 12 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 5. Wagner will discuss the current exhibit by Susan Jane Belton, “What’s Yours?” and several selections from the permanent collection. For additional information or […]
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The University of Maine will open its Senior Art Exhibition, “ThinkMake,” with a reception from 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7 at the Lord Hall Gallery. The show runs until Jan. 25, displaying paintings, sculpture, photography, digital and other artwork created by 15 UMaine studio art majors graduating in December or in the spring. Student […]
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An opinion column in the Bangor Daily News by Robert Glover, a University of Maine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Honors Preceptor of Political Science, discusses healthcare changes the Maine Legislature made last year, which made immigrants living in Maine for less than five years ineligible for MaineCare, the state’s low-income healthcare program. Glover […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Channel 2 (WLBZ), Channel 5 (WABI) and Channel 7 (WVII) were among the news organizations covering the Nov. 27 memorial service and candlelight vigil for two UMaine students and a recent graduate killed in a plane crash Nov. 16 at the Knox County Regional Airport. More than 500 people turned out […]
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Comments by University of Maine Cooperative Extension business specialist and professor of economics Jim McConnon were included in a Lewiston Sun Journal article about what retailers and consumers might expect as the holiday shopping season gets underway. McConnon said improving consumer confidence in the economy is being reflected in retail sales. Contact: George Manlove, 207.581.3756
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Research by Roger Hooke, University of Maine cooperating professor with the Climate Change Institute, and colleagues at the Javier Pedraza of Complutense University in Spain is discussed in an article in the December 2012 issue of the magazine GSA Today, according to a report on the PhysOrg.com website. The researchers studied the effects of humans […]
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Ivan Manev, dean of the University of Maine College of Business, Public Policy and Health, recently made a presentation on entrepreneurship in transitional economies at a conference in Moscow. He also visited the Komi Republic Academy of Public Service and Administration in Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic. The academy is a partner institution […]
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The Xi Sigma Pi forestry honor society is selling locally grown, hand-sheared fraser and balsam fir holiday trees to benefit scholarship funds for University of Maine forestry undergraduates 3–5 p.m., Nov. 26–Nov. 30, from 8 a.m.–4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, and 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2 in front of Nutting Hall. Trees are from […]
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For its 6 p.m. news report Nov. 26, Channel 7 (WVII) interviewed Alice Kelley, a faculty member in the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences, about two small earthquakes, one on Nov. 23 just west of Belfast and in Fort Kent on Nov. 25. Kelley displayed a printout from the university’s seismometer, […]
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