The Page Farm and Home Museum will hold an heirloom plant and seedling sale, rain or shine, Friday and Saturday, May 20 & 21, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Proceeds support the museum’s spring planting, garden programs and materials.
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The University of Maine is now taking registrations for its new summer Physics Camps, which will expose children to the wonders, mysteries, and facts of energy and space.
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ORONO — An art auction and sale by the estate of late artist and former University of Maine designer and illustrator Arlene Thomson is being held Friday, May 20 and Saturday May 21 to benefit the UMaine Honors College.
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ORONO – Scientists, educators and other interested professionals are invited to the 2011 Citizen Science Symposium at the University of Maine, May 12-13, a symposium designed to share information about environmental citizen science, where volunteers assist scientists with monitoring and data collection.
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The newly-formed Maine chapter of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) held its first annual meeting at Bates College on April 23, 2011. More than 75 neuroscience faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduates from around Maine participated in the daylong event.
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University of Maine researchers have received funding to continue to examine the impact of dam removal on freshwater systems and populations of sea-run fish such as Atlantic salmon, alewife, sea lamprey, rainbow smelt and American shad, and also begin new research on the effects of restoration of sea lampreys to waterways where sea-run fish can […]
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The second annual Black Bear Beauties Plant Sale takes place Friday and Saturday, May 6-7 at the University of Maine Lyle E. Littlefield Ornamental Trial Garden in the Rangeley Road from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The sale is an opportunity for the public to buy rugged, often native, plants suitable for Maine gardens. They […]
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The University of Maine Forest Bioproducts Research Institute (FBRI) will host a groundbreaking ceremony celebrating plans to build a 3,300 square foot addition to UMaine’s Jenness Hall. The event is scheduled for Tuesday May 3 at 1 p.m. at Jenness Hall.
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University of Maine engineering students and researchers working at a facility in the Netherlands are now into the third week of testing scale models of deepwater floating offshore wind platforms for wind turbines. The team from UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, is testing 1/50th-scale models at an offshore wind basin owned by a […]
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University of Maine forestry and wildlife ecology students will team up with a public school chemistry teacher, fish, wildlife authorities and some 90 students from the Old Town Elementary School for a service-earning project in Hirundo Wildlife Refuge in Alton the week of May 2.
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