Contact: Mick Peterson (207) 581-2129 or michael.peterson@maine.edu ORONO – A group of University of Maine researchers, headed up by UMaine Libra Foundation Professor of Engineering Michael “Mick” Peterson, has received a $1 million grant from the Department of Energy to continue developing environmental impact protocols at the site of a tidal-power turbine near Eastport and […]
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Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, (207) 581-1904 ORONO — The Hudson Museum will host a free, public lecture by Karen Olsen Bruhns, one of the leading authorities on Pre-Columbian fake artifacts from Mesoamerica and the South American Andes, Thursday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. Bruhns is director of the Cihuatan/Las Marias Archaeological Project for the Fundacion Nacional […]
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UMaine has received a $821,065 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, according to LibraryJournal.com. UMaine and other partners will use the grant for a statewide Maine Shared Collections Strategy project to define a strategy for share management of legacy print collections and to explore new ways of delivering content to […]
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A story in Mainebiz about a learning center in Washington County that has collaborated with a local fishery cites a study by the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at UMaine. The study found Washington County had the highest proportion of families seeking assistance for home heating oil, free or reduced lunch, and and food stamp […]
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A Portland Press Herald story notes the UMaine Museum of Art as one of several art museums in Maine focusing recently on photography. UMMA has an photography exhibit opening Friday in its downtown Bangor location.
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Kevin Birch, a faculty member in UMaine’s School of Performing Arts, is quoted extensively in a Bangor Daily News story about a benefit event for the 1860 E.E. & G. Hook organ located in St. John’s Catholic Church in Bangor.
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Channel 5 News reported a Monday evening preview of the You-Are-Loved Chalk Message Project, part of a nationwide suicide prevention initiative. A similar story appears in Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News and it was mentioned in a USA Today report. The UMaine event, held Monday night, was organized by the Touchstone Project in the UMaine Counseling […]
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Poetry Daily, an online anthology of poetry published by The Daily Poet Association, published a poem, “Lullaby,” by Jennifer Moxley, a member of the UMaine English Department faculty, who was the daily featured poet Thursday, Sept. 30. Moxley also was the guest judge for a $10,000 poetry prize awarded by Lake Forest College in September. […]
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Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty was featured in a Maine Public Radio analaysis of methodologies used by pollsters assessing the Maine gubernatorial race.
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Comments from Michael Socolow of the UMaine journalism faculty are included in a Maine Today Media story (Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Central Maine Morning Sentinel) about the online reporting of organizations like MaineWatchdog.org, which first reported recent news about issues related to U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree’s travel on private jets. The site is part […]
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