Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Page Farm and Home Museum at the University of Maine will participate in the Sunday July 22 Maine Open Farm Day. More than 80 farms and farm museums around Maine will participate, hosting a variety of events aimed at celebrating Maine’s agriculture industry and its agriculture heritage. […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571; George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 BANGOR — Bruce Riedel, a Middle East expert of international stature who serves as Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy, will speak on U.S.-Iran relations in Bangor on Monday, July 23. Riedel will present “U.S.-Iran Relations: Looking into […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 BELFAST — Lavon Bartel has been named interim director of the University of Maine’s Hutchinson Center in Belfast. Bartel, who retired earlier this year after a decade as dean and director of University of Maine Cooperative Extension, will succeed Margaret Malmberg, who resigned to accept a professional position in […]
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Contact: David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – UMaine School of Marine Sciences professor Laurie Connell and her research team were recently recognized by the Pan American Marine Biotechnology Association (PAMBA) for their groundbreaking work involving the relative resistance of clams to the toxin associated with red tide. Connell and fellow researchers V.M. Bricelj, K. […]
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Contact: Rebecca Holberton (207) 581-2526; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — More than 100 ornithologists from across North America and the United Kingdom will be attending bird watching trips, sampling Maine cuisine, and, more importantly, sharing the latest breakthroughs in avian research at the Association of Field Ornithologists’ 2007 Annual Meeting from July 26 […]
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Contact: John Jemison, 207-581-3241, jjemison@umext.maine.edu STILLWATER, Me. — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will hold its annual Sustainable Agriculture Field day for farmers, crop advisors and other members of the agricultural community on Tuesday, July 17. It will take place at Rogers Farm, UMaine’s 100-acre forage and crops research facilityon Bennoch Road in Stillwater. This […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The Page Farm and Home Museum at the University of Maine recently showed area children through games and activities how their counterparts existed in early Maine from 1865 through 1940. This week, another group of children is learning about games, history and traditions of other countries, through “Passport […]
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Contact: Kathleen March, (207) 581-2088 ORONO — Kathleen March, UMaine professor of Spanish, has received a Translation Grant of just more than $3,200 from the Ireland Literary Exchange to translate a book of Irish poetry into Galician, a minority language of Spain. March will translate and prepare for publication The Rose-Geranium by noted Irish poet […]
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Contact: Sandra Caron, (207) 581-3138; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — UMaine’s groundbreaking peer education program, “Male Athletes Against Violence” (MAAV), has released its new poster for 2007-2008, “United Against Violence,” portraying 13 collegiate athletes in an assemblage of uniforms, each representing a National Collegiate Athletic Association sport. The poster, the fifth since the […]
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Contact: Elizabeth DePoy, (207) 581-1469; Stephen Gilson, (207) 581-2409 ORONO — University of Maine social work and disability studies professors Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen Gilson recently published their seventh book, a textbook titled The Human Experience: Description, Explanation, and Judgment. The book is geared to a social work audience, including college students studying human behavior […]
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