Contact: Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Graduate Student Government and Graduate School recently announced the award recipients for oral, poster and multimedia presentations at the 2008 Graduate Research Exposition. The annual expo, which was held April 15 and 16 at UMaine’s Buchanan Alumni House, is designed to showcase and reward […]
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Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The Maine Business School recently named Auburn media executive Dick Gleason recipient of its 2008 Achievement in Business Award. Gleason, a UMaine alum and member of the Maine Business School Advisory Board for the last three years, is president and owner of Gleason Media Services in Auburn. He has […]
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Contact: Michael Mason (207) 581-2285Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — Preparing to conduct science experiments while floating weightless in an airplane has been no easy task for the University of Maine and University of Southern Maine team chosen to participate this summer in NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program. With not a moment to […]
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Contact: Lud Hallman, 581-1249Dennis Cox, 581-1245George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — As many as 160 members of the Oratorio Society and University Singers will perform the bold and racy choral classic Carmina Burana April 27 in the Memorial Gymnasium. Carmina Burana is a popular scenic cantata of 25 medieval poems set to music in 1935-1936 by […]
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Contact: Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — Robb Freeman, a University of Maine Ph.D candidate in ecology and environmental science, was recently named the first-place winner of the Inez Boyd Environmental Research Prize by the Penobscot Valley Chapter of Maine Audubon. Freeman, who hopes to receive his doctorate in December, won the $1,000 top prize […]
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Contact: Mary Fernandez (207) 581-2938; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 Orono — The University of Maine College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture has announced that two students in its Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences have been awarded significant scholarships. David Merrill, a second-year student majoring in sustainable agriculture, is the recipient of a […]
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Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Laura Wood, sophomore in Ecology and Environmental Sciences from Scarborough, has been awarded a 2008 Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The scholarship provides financial assistance for her junior and senior years, and a summer internship at a NOAA facility. “This is another example […]
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Contact: Harold Daniel, 581-1933; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine System’s Center for Tourism Research and Outreach (CenTRO) is holding a Tourism Education Summit April 22 in Belfast to explore Maine’s tourism-related higher education programs. Representatives from the university system and the Maine Community College System have been invited, along with […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Susan Hunter, a University of Maine faculty member since 1991 and an academic administrator for the past three years, is UMaine President Robert Kennedy’s choice to take over as UMaine’s vice president for academic affairs and provost, effective June 1. Kennedy announced his recommendation today, citing Hunter’s […]
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Contact: Tod Shockey, 581-3923 ORONO — Tod Shockey, an associate professor of mathematics education in University of Maine’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics, has been elected vice president of TODOS: Mathematics for ALL. The international organization’s mission is “to advocate for an equitable and high-quality mathematics education for all students — in particular Latino/Hispanic students.” […]
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