As the national epidemic of opiate abuse and addiction continues to swell, the social and financial burden of treating infants born to drug-addicted mothers grows, too. The current issue of the “Journal of the American Medical Association” features an editorial co-written by University of Maine psychology professor Marie Hayes.
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The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center the LEED Gold certification for its newly constructed Offshore Wind Laboratory. This is the first LEED Gold-certified building on the UMaine campus.
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Nationally known children’s book author and illustrator Gail Gibbons recently received the first annual Correll Book Award for Excellence in Early Childhood Informational Text, a new national award created through the University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development.
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Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, UMaine professor of food science and human nutrition, has been awarded a Senior Fulbright Specialist grant in agriculture, which will enable her to continue her research on the health benefits of wild blueberries at the Food Science and Human Nutrition Department at the University of Milan in Italy. In 2007 she received a […]
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University of Maine faculty member, Honors College preceptor and folklorist Melissa Ladenheim has received Maine Campus Compact’s Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence. The award recognizes the accomplishments of faculty members in making public service an integral part of their teaching, forging strong and reciprocal community partnerships, and advocating for service learning. The award […]
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A University of Maine computer server has been breached by hackers, potentially exposing personal information of individuals who made purchases through campus-based computer stores at UMaine and the University of Arkansas. While law enforcement’s forensic analysis of the data continues,early estimates are that up to 1,007 online-only transaction records —including names and partial credit card […]
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Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of blog posts from UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, which is currently conducting fieldwork in the Alaska Range. Seth Campbell, a University of Maine graduate student pursuing his Ph.D. through UMaine’s Climate Change Institute and Department of Earth Sciences, is leading an expedition with several other researchers […]
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One of the largest classes in University of Maine history graduated today in the 210th Commencement ceremonies at Harold Alfond Sports Arena. This academic year, 2,467 students — 1,875 undergraduate and 592 graduate students — earned degrees from UMaine.
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Graduate students in the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences will have the opportunity to discuss their research at the 13th Annual Graduate Student Symposium, May 7-8 at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Maine. Research presentations start each day at 9:30 a.m. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777 or jessica.bloch@umit.maine.edu
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Three engineers and a biochemist are the recipients of the top annual faculty awards at the University of Maine, which will be presented May 4 as part of the Academic Recognition Convocation.
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