Contact: Gail Dana-Sacco, 581-1417 ORONO — Gail Dana-Sacco, Ph.D, director of the University of Maine’s Wabanaki Center, has been selected as a fellow in the 2009 Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership program, a mentorship program established to identify and train emerging leaders in the field of health across the state. The program is designed […]
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Contact: Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research, (207) 581-3244 The 2009 Diadromous Species Restoration Research Network Science Meeting will be held July 22 to 24 at the University of Maine to help shape dialogue about the future of diadromous species restoration and research. The three-day event will feature guest speakers and […]
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Contact: Douglas Gardner, (207) 581-2846; Stephen Shaler, (207) 581-2886; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 ORONO – Researchers at the University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center recently were issued a patent for technology that could change the way we build homes and other structures, while cutting the economic losses caused by natural disasters. The […]
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Contact: Amos Orcutt, University of Maine Foundation, (207) 581-5100 ORONO — On June 9, the University of Maine Foundation celebrated its 75th anniversary with a dinner at the Wells Conference Center on the Orono campus. More than 250 guests attended the special event, held exactly 75 years after the Foundation’s date of incorporation. At that […]
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Contact: Michaele Bailey, (207) 581-3872 ORONO, Me.—4-H, the youth development program of Universityof Maine Cooperative Extension, will hold a Take-A-Chance silent auction on June 27 at Maine 4-H Days at the Windsor Fairgrounds. The auction opens at 5 p.m., with the drawing beginning at 7 p.m. Tickets for the auction will be 10 for $2.50, […]
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Contact: Kathryn Hopkins, (207) 474-9622 ORONO, Me.—University of Maine Cooperative Extension has published “How to Do a Home Energy Evaluation,” part of “Maine Home Energy,” a new series of educational bulletins on home energy use. “How to Do a Home Energy Evaluation” includes a checklist to help homeowners determine how to increase energy efficiency and […]
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Contact: Habib Dagher, (207) 581-2123; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 The University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center received an Academic Pioneer Award Thursday for its contribution to the field of ocean energy. Habib Dagher, the center’s director, was on hand to accept the award at the sixth annual EnergyOcean Conference at the Samoset […]
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Contact: Jan Kristo, 866-3318; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — With Maine schools letting out for the summer, Jan Kristo, author and UMaine professor of literacy education, says keeping reading on children’s radar will help them maintain and strengthen the gains made in reading over the school year. Summer vacation also provides great opportunities to help […]
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Contact: Margo Lukens, 581-1401; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation will host a 5-hour, national videoconference Thursday, June 18, dedicated to reflecting upon and encouraging Native American theater and playwriting. The conference, free and open to the public, will originate from the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, […]
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Contact: Sharon Barker, 581-1501 ORONO — Sharon Barker, director of the UMaine Women’s Resource Center, recently received the American Association of University Women’s 2009 Achievement Citation Award for Maine. Criteria for the award includes a requirement that a recipient be a woman in Maine who has made a distinctive contribution in an AAUW field of […]
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