Contact Beth Bisson (beth.bisson@maine.edu) ORONO — Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine has created a new Maine Sea Grant Undergraduate Scholarship in Marine Sciences Beginning in the spring semester of the 2010-2011 academic year, Maine Sea Grant will award one scholarship in the amount of $1,000 to one third-year undergraduate student […]
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Contact: Mick Peterson (207) 581-2129 or michael.peterson@maine.edu ORONO – A group of University of Maine researchers, headed up by UMaine Libra Foundation Professor of Engineering Michael “Mick” Peterson, has received a $1 million grant from the Department of Energy to continue developing environmental impact protocols at the site of a tidal-power turbine near Eastport and […]
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Contact: Ed Grew, 581-2169 Edward Grew, UMaine research professor of geological sciences, presented a talk, “Rare minerals in the Australian Antarctic Territory” at the Antarctic Science Planning Workshop in Hobart, Australia Sept. 21. The workshop was one of several organized by the Australian Antarctic Division to design implementation plans for the newly developed Australian Science […]
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Margaret “Miki” Macdonald, a 1998 graduate of the UMaine School of Nursing’s master’s degree program, will be at the White House Tuesday, September 28, to meet with First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Mary Wakefield, the administrator of the Health Resources Service Administration, to talk about the Affordable Care Act. Macdonald, who is the Maine […]
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Maine Public Radio broadcast a Monday story featuring Prof. Robert Steneck of the UMaine School of Marine Sciences discussing his new research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Working with a series of international collaborators, Steneck is calling for dramatic changes, based on a Chilean model, in the ways in which […]
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Contact: Aaron Putnam (207) 581-2166 An international science journal this week published a paper, authored by a UMaine Ph.D. candidate, which claims to resolve a long-standing debate about the end of the last ice age in New Zealand. Aaron Putnam, a glacial geologist in UMaine’s Department of Earth Sciences and Climate Change Institute, was the […]
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Contact: Ivan Fernandez, 581-2932 ORONO — Ivan J. Fernandez, professor of soil science and cooperating professor of forest resources at UMaine is being honored with a lifetime appointment as a fellow in the Soil Science Society of America, an honor bestowed on only .3 percent of its more than 6,000 members. He’ll receive his award […]
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The Bangor Daily News “College Fair Preview” insert features a profile of UMaine senior nursing student Casey Levasseur and senior finance major Brian Landry (page 6). The supplement, part of Wednesday’s newspaper, provides a number of articles related to colleges and universities around Maine. Levasseur, of Millinocket and Landry, of Yorktown, Va., are part of […]
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Contact: Jeff Benjamin, 581-2727; Jessica Leahy, (207) 581-2834 ORONO — The University of Maine School of Forest Resources has received a U.S. Department of Agriculture research grant to take a close look at the northeast region’s logging industry and examine its infrastructure, capacity, workforce and issues that affect its economic health and future. The research […]
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An online weight management program recently started at UMaine was mentioned in a newspaper story. Faculty in the food science and human nutrition department began offering the program for the first time this fall
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