Contact: James Dwyer, University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Presque Isle, 207-764-3361 ORONO, Maine. — The University of Maine Cooperative Extension Potato/Crops Program received a 2004 Award of Excellence Feb. 1 in Washington D.C. from the Northeast Cooperative Extension Directors. This is the highest award presented by Extension directors in the Northeast. It recognizes Extension outreach […]
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Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, (207) 581-1904, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Games Day at the University of Maine’s Hudson Museum is a February school vacation tradition. This year’s event, the 15th annual Games Day, is scheduled for 10 a.m.-noon on Thursday, Feb. 23. Children will have an opportunity to play games of skill and chance […]
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Contact: Doug Allan, (207) 581-3860; George Manlove, (207) 561-3756 The UMaine Maine Peace Action Committee’s 2005 Peace and Justice Film Series is offering provocative, sometimes humorous films that analyze and challenge American foreign and corporate policies. The films include work by producers and directors that include Michael Moore, Stanley Kubrick and members of “Hollywood Ten” […]
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Contact: Shezwae Fleming, (207) 581-1425, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The public is invited to an international talent show at Minsky Recital Hall at the University of Maine from 7-9 p.m. to raise money to aid tsunami victims in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and other Asian or South Asian counties hit by the Dec. […]
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Contact: Ann Schonberger, (207) 581-1228; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Women working in the woods, on the water, in science labs and in other traditionally male careers are among the subjects for the Spring 2005 Lunch Series talks presented by the UMaine Women in the Curriculum and Women’s Studies Program. Speakers in the spring […]
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Contact: Doug Allen, (207) 581-3860, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine Marxist-Socialist Studies Program is focusing its 2005 lunchtime lecture series around invasion, occupation and human rights — timely and controversial topics as United States policy-makers struggle for answers in the Middle East. Co-sponsored by Maine Peace Action Committee, the Memorial Union and […]
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Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777, houtman@maine.edu ORONO– Two University of Maine graduate students, Kristi Crowe of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Keith Kanoti of Atkinson, Maine, have received awards for their research from the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station. They both won the George F. Dow and Fred Griffee awards, and Crowe […]
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Contact: Len Kaye, (207) 581- 3483, Leah Ruffin, (207) 581- 2299, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — With Maine’s population of aging “baby boomers” increasing at dramatic rates, a consortium of experts are gathering Feb. 2-3 for a conference in South Portland to examine ways the state and the nation should prepare for the impending […]
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Contact: Richard Powell, (207) 581-1795, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — When Maine voters approved term limits in a 1993 referendum designed to replace what some considered professional politicians with more rank-and-file citizens, they set into motion a series of related changes with some unanticipated consequences. Voters interrupted or ended some lengthy political careers, […]
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Contact: Marlene Charron, (207) 581-4095, Tim Cole, (207) 581-1882, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — This year’s Camden Conference and the intensive, three-day UMaine course traditionally structured around it, analyze the current Middle East turmoil and explore related United States’ foreign policy directions. The course will examine the nature, consequences and future direction of the […]
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