Melissa Jankowski was approaching the parking garage stairwell when she encountered a young man. He spun around and locked eyes with her. Frightened, she hurried to class. But there was something about his distant look that made her determined to search for him and ask if he was all right. When she returned to the […]
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Undergraduate and graduate students presented their work to audiences and faculty judges during the 2016 Student Research Symposium held at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on April 27. The winners and runners-up in each graduate category, as well as the winners of the special awards are: Winners from the Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) […]
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The University of Maine’s Campuses for Environmental Stewardship groups will present student service-learning projects from 12:30–3 p.m. Thursday, May 5 in the Bangor Room, Memorial Union. Students, faculty and community members will be in attendance. Projects conducted this semester focused on issues of importance in the state including: sustainable tourism, mining activities, Penobscot River water […]
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Editor’s note: Story updated May 9. The 214th Commencement at the University of Maine will be held May 14 in Harold Alfond Sports Arena on campus. UMaine Commencement, held in two ceremonies at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., is one of the largest graduation events in the state, with nearly 1,800 undergraduate and graduate students, […]
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The University of Maine’s 2016 Commencement is May 14, with ceremonies at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. at Alfond Sports Arena. Motorists in the Orono area will encounter heavier traffic than usual throughout much of the day. Guests attending the Commencement ceremonies should build in extra travel time due to possible road construction delays in […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an article on the importance of vernal pools by Zachary Wood and Jared Homola, Ph.D. students in the Ecology and Environmental Sciences Program at the University of Maine. In the article, titled “Why these pools in the forest are more important than you may think,” the students write that the […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2), WABI (Channel 5) and the Bangor Daily News reported on the University of Maine’s 2016 Student Research Symposium. More than 500 undergraduate and graduate students presented their work at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. “It’s our job to take the knowledge that the students and the faculty are producing and apply […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) reported more than 500 University of Maine students will showcase their work during the 2016 Student Research Symposium at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on April 27. The event for both undergraduate and graduate students offers an opportunity to speak with Maine residents, including those who could benefit from the research, […]
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The College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture at the University of Maine honored 11 students for their exemplary achievements during a banquet on April 20. The undergraduate recipients are: Frank B. and Charles S. Bickford Memorial Prize: Elizabeth E. Wood, biology; Outstanding International Student: Dominika Trzilova, molecular and cellular biology and biochemistry; and The […]
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Kimberley Rain Miner, a second-year Ph.D. candidate in Earth and climate sciences at the University of Maine, has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant to Canada in geosciences from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Miner, who is from Los Angeles, will be conducting research at University […]
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