Contact: Dennis Cox, 581-1245 or 478-5684; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — More than 50 members of UMaine’s University Singers and a half dozen accompanying musicians are packing for a 10-day concert tour in Italy and Sicily May 16-26. The students and accompanists have an itinerary of five concerts with time in between for sight-seeing, says […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — In a lively commencement address, master inventor and renowned entrepreneur Doug Hall encouraged the 1,860 members of the University of Maine Class of 2008 “to create and take action on ideas for a better world,” and to do a better job than the Baby Boomer generation of […]
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Contact: Will Manion (207) 581-2184; Mathew Kinney (207) 316-6323; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — For the third year in a row, a team of University of Maine students is headed to the prestigious American Society of Civil Engineers National Concrete Canoe Competition to be held in Montreal June 19-21. The UMaine engineering team was […]
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Contact: Jonathan Rubin, 581-3152 ORONO — UMaine economist Jonathan Rubin has been selected for a leadership position in a national research committee that provides scientific and technological expertise to the worldwide transportation industry. Rubin, a professor at the Margaret Chase Smith Center and UMaine School of Economics, will chair the Committee on Transportation Energy of […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Five University of Maine professors, each with international reputations in their academic disciplines and many years of distinguished service to UMaine and its students, were announced this afternoon as the winners of UMaine’s annual top faculty awards. The awards are part of the annual Academic Honors Convocation, […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Fifteen years after the University of Maine’s Donald P. Corbett Business Building opened, a portrait of the successful poultry farmer who graduated in 1934 will be unveiled at 10 a.m. Friday, May 9, in the Dean’s Office Suite in Room 211. The portrait was presented to the […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Winners of the University of Maine’s 2008 employee achievement awards represent the university’s Army ROTC program, Dept. of Facilities Management, Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center and Graduate School. Two winners were announced recently by the Classified Employee Advisory Council and two by the Professional Employee Advisory Council. […]
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Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine political science major Molly Feeney of Knox, Maine has been chosen by the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation as one of its prestigious 2008 James Madison Junior Fellows. James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation junior and senior fellowships, typically one per state annually, support the graduate study of American […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s 206th commencement, scheduled for Saturday May 10 at Alfond Arena, will bring a total of approximately 11,000 people to the Orono campus. As most of those graduates and visitors will travel by automobile on Interstate 95 from south of Orono, significant delays are […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Note: a photo of Dean Hecker is available upon request ORONO — Jeffrey Hecker, a University of Maine psychology professor since 1986, has been appointed dean of UMaine’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The appointment is subject to ratification by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees, […]
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