Contact: Kylie Cole (kylie.cole@umit.maine.edu) ORONO — The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s research initiatives will benefit from a University of Maine fundraising event scheduled for Sunday Sept. 26. The annual Out of the Darkness Community Walk is set to begin at 2 p.m., with registration starting at 1 p.m. Staff from the UMaine Counseling Center […]
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Contact: John Rebar, 581-2811; John Jemison, 581-3241 ORONO — UMaine Cooperative Extension professor and water quality and soil specialist John Jemison has been awarded a yearlong University of Maine System (UMS) Trustee Professorship. Qualification criteria for a UMS Trustee Professorship includes the approval of a research proposal that will have significant impact, contribute to an […]
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Contact: Lisa Morin, (207) 581-4194 ORONO — The University of Maine Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism and First and Second Year Programs are sponsoring the first-ever UMaine Welcome Weekend Day of Service on the afternoon of Aug. 28. Occurring on the first week that students arrive at UMaine — Aug. 27-Sept. 3 — the […]
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University of Maine Professor Laurie Hicks leaves Aug. 27 on a two-week research trip to China to document the folk art of the country as part of an educational effort to make the traditional artforms accessible to the Western world. Hicks will be one of seven researchers working as part of ChinaVine, a partnership between […]
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Contact: Jesse Moriarity, 581-1427 ORONO – The University of Maine’s Bion and Dorain Foster Center for Student Innovation has received a national design award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE). The center, designed by Oak Point Associates of Biddeford, Maine was one of nine educational and cultural facilities […]
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Tuesday’s Portland Press Herald includes a report updating UMaine’s progress toward replacing athletic director Blake James, who accepted an athletics administration position at the University of Miami last week. The story notes that President Kennedy plans to name an interim AD before James Sept. 7 departure.
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UMaine to host wireless technology conference.
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Collins Center for the Arts announces 2010-2011 schedule
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Contact: Betsy Arntzen, (207) 581-4225 ORONO — For the first time in recent Killam Fellowship history, the University of Maine is the only North American university to have three qualified undergraduate students accepted as 2010 Killam fellows, a Canadian-United States exchange program that awards $10,000 scholarships to study at a Canadian university. The students are […]
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Contact: Barbara Murphy, 1-800-287-1482 (in Maine) or (207) 743-6329 SOUTH PARIS — The University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Plant-A-Row for the Hungry Program has set a goal of collecting 125,000 pounds of fresh produce from volunteer gardeners across the state, a significant increase from the 87,319 pounds donated last year to food pantries, shelters and […]
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