The Wicked Local newspapers in Massachusetts report that Jon Sorenson of Boxford, Mass. was one of four people recently honored with a UMaine Stillwater Society Presidential Award. Sorenson, a 1986 UMaine graduate, was recognized along with Prof. Habib Dagher and UMaine alumni benefactors Russell and Barbara Bodwell. The Stillwater Society honors those who have “made […]
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A Sunday New York Times report mentions UMaine as one of the colleges and universities considering changes that would affect academic programs in the languages. In his academic reorganization plan announced last May, President Kennedy recommended that UMaine suspend academic majors in Latin and German, while retaining the capacity for instruction in those languages.
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Mike Bilodeau, director of UMaine’s Process Development Center, was quoted in a Sunday Maine Today Media story about issues related to a grass pellet fuel R&D project that’s underway in northern Maine. UMaine researchers, including Cooperative Extension experts, are looking at ways to create an energy-producing crop on unused farm land in Aroostook County. The […]
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The website Offshore Wind Wire has an interview with UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center Director Habib Dagher, who answered questions about the progress of the DeepCWind floating turbine project and the type of work which will be done at the UMaine’s offshore wind laboratory, which is currently under construction.
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Friday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about the UMaine Student Senate’s recent approval of a resolution calling for Congress to support the DREAM (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) Act. The initiative would provide a way for aiens between the ages of 12 and 35 to gain citizenship under certain circumstances. The story […]
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In a story about Maine high schools attempting to increase their enrollment of international students, the website fenceviewer.com mentioned UMaine’s agreement with Orono High School to provide housing space and create university-based programs for high school students coming from abroad beginning next year.
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The website Horticulture Week cites research by UMaine’s Donglin Zhang in a story about invasive plants. Zhang says selecting vigorous American native woodland plans is one way of countering invasive aliens.
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The Bangor Daily News website features a report on a Thursday morning UMaine presentation by Jestina Mukoko, the executive director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project. That organization works to assess and monitor human rights abuses in that country. She is currently serving as the 2010 Human Rights Fellow at Colby College’s Oak Institute for the […]
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WABI television broadcast a Wednesday story about students the Habitat UMaine group, sleeping in a shanty on the Mall for several nights to raise money for Bangor’s Habitat for Humanity chapter.
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Prof. Jonathan Rubin from the UMaine School of Economics was interviewed for a Maine Public Radio story about Lee Academy’s decision to turn down a federal grant that would have funded a wood-pellet boiler. School officials were concerned that biofuels emissions standards would have created unmanageable operational costs.
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