Contact: Catherine Schmitt, 207-581-1434 Orono, ME—Maine Sea Grant has announced that the National Sea Grant College Program has awarded prestigious Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships to two people with graduate degrees from Maine colleges. Jocelyn Brown-Saracino and Danielle Brzezinski join 46 fellow graduates from around the country who will be working on marine […]
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Contacts: Susan Brawley, (207) 581-2973; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 University of Maine marine sciences Professor Susan Brawley has been elected as the vice-president/president elect of the Phycological Society of America for 2010. She will serve as President of the Society in 2011. “I am pleased and honored to serve my research field in this position […]
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Contact: Kristen Andresen at (207) 581-3742 kristen.andresen@umit.maine.edu ORONO — Applying to medical school can be a full-time job. But for two University of Maine juniors, the job has become a lot easier. Microbiology major Jonathan Pelletier of Falmouth, Maine, and biochemistry major Aaron Perreault of Northfield, N.H., recently learned that they had received early acceptance […]
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Contact Catherine Schmitt (catherine_schmitt@umit.maine.edu) ORONO – Recognizing the need for a centralized, neutral source of climate information specific to Maine, University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant today announced the launch of Maine Climate News at http://extension.umaine.edu/maineclimatenews. Produced in partnership with Maine State Climatologist George Jacobson, the site is intended to be a […]
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Contacts: Laurie Connell, (207) 581-2470; Rosemary Smith, (207) 581-3361; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 The University of Maine is one of the first to receive an international research partnership award, designed to link U.S. scientists and engineers with counterparts in Ireland. The first four tri-partite U.S.-Ireland R&D partnerships, valued at more than $10 million were announced […]
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Contacts: Alice Kelley (207) 581-2056; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 The University of Maine is reporting all kinds of shakes, rattles, and rolls, but it’s not just from the students returning to campus for the fall semester – it’s movements and vibrations of the Earth occurring worldwide that are being picked up by UMaine’s new seismometer. […]
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Contact: Lauren Mack (860) 992-8735; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 University of Maine pre-vet senior Lauren Mack sees a real problem arising when public safety officials are called out in horse emergencies and no one in the department is trained to handle horses. In the last six months in the Bangor area alone, a racehorse got […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571; Aimee Dolloff at (207) 581-3777 MONMOUTH — Events highlighting Maine’s rich agricultural history will take center stage on Wednesday Aug. 19 when the University of Maine hosts a centennial celebration of its Highmoor Farm in Monmouth. The state established the facility in 1909 to conduct research and demonstrations related […]
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Contact: Vicki Nemeth, Maine EPSCoR Director, 581-3399,maineepscor@umit.maine.eduJoe Carr, 581-3571, joecarr@maine.edu ORONO — Gov. John Baldacci and other state leaders joined University of Maine and University of Southern Maine officials on Wednesday morning to announce a $20 million National Science Foundation EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) grant for a wide-ranging new project called the […]
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Contact: Kristen Andresen, 581-3742 We humbly apologize, but the original version of this release contained an error. Laura Wood’s hometown is Scarborough, not South Portland. ORONO — Two University of Maine students have received theM orris K. Udall Scholarship. Established in 1992 to commemorate Udall’s 30 years of service in the U.S. House of Representatives, […]
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