Mount Desert Islander reported on a joint project between the University of Maine and College of the Atlantic to study small- and medium-scale honey and maple syrup production in the state. The three-year project was awarded $498,462 by the United States Department of Agriculture in May. Jessica Leahy, a professor in UMaine’s School of Forest […]
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Three University of Maine undergraduates have received early acceptance to Tufts University School of Medicine through the Maine Track Early Assurance program. Trevor Morin, a microbiology major from Scarborough, Maine; Drew Brooks, a microbiology and music double major from Lyman, Maine; and Austin Steward, a bioengineering major and Honors College student from Colebrook, New Hampshire, […]
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Sarah Harlan-Haughey, an assistant professor of English and honors at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a Missoula Independent article about the University of Montana’s first summer conference on medieval studies. During the conference, Harlan-Haughey led a presentation that compared Icelandic sagas to the stories passed down through her family of homesteaders in Montana, […]
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The Lincoln County News published a University of Maine Darling Marine Center feature article about Abby Shaughnessy, a senior studying marine biology at the University of Maine. Shaughnessy is spending the summer interning at the DMC in Walpole. For her Honors thesis, she partnered with Portland-based Ready Seafood to help make selling lobster overseas more […]
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The University of Maine InterChemNet (ICN) project has purchased crystallography instrumentation that will support opportunities for students in the second-semester general chemistry lab course, CHY 124. Starting in January 2018, the instrumentation will be used in multiweek project- and inquiry-based lab experiments. Crystallography, which uses a single crystal X-ray diffractometer, has been an essential tool […]
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University of Maine fourth-year student Miranda Roberts of Hermon has been chosen to serve as a student delegate for the Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation (ENACT), a new national program based at Brandeis University designed to engage young people in state legislative change. Roberts is a political science major with double minors in Spanish […]
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The University of Maine recognized 2,303 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the spring 2017 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,727 are from Maine, 533 are from 29 other states and 43 are from 22 countries other than the U.S. Listed below are students who received Dean’s List honors for […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “Trump’s fight against environmental protection is a threat to Maine’s economy and health,” by Sharon Tisher and Harold Borns. Tisher is a lecturer in the University of Maine School of Economics and Honors College. Borns is a glacial and ice age geologist, UMaine professor emeritus of the […]
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International Programs at the University of Maine has announced the latest study abroad scholarship recipients. The group gathered in April for a pre-departure orientation. Recently awarded scholarships include: Samantha Smith Scholarship — Awarded to Brawley Benson, an international affairs major and economics minor. Benson will attend the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in Moscow, […]
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For the second consecutive year, the University of Maine graduated one of the largest classes in its history — more than 1,900 students — during the 215th Commencement on May 13 in Harold Alfond Sports Arena on campus. The event, held in two ceremonies, included the conferral of 33 doctoral degrees and two honorary doctorates […]
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