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UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center to Celebrate National Recognition for Bridge-in-a-Backpack

Contact: Joe Carr, joe.carr@umit.maine.edu, 207-581-3571 Roberta Laverty, Roberta.laverty@umit.maine.edu, 207-581-2110 ORONO — The Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine has scheduled a Friday April 1 event in recognition of a prestigious national award for innovation.  University personnel and their business and industry partners will gather to celebrate the Pankow Award for Innovation, […]

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2010 Nursing School Graduates to Visit Class of 2011 Candidates

Contact: Nancy Fishwick, 581-2607 Members of the UMaine School of Nursing’s Family Nurse Practitioner Class of 2011 will hear from several of last year’s graduates on Thursday, March 31 about transitioning from registered nurse family nurse practitioner, and the credentialing requirements ahead. Two of the eight graduate students who received degrees and national certification last […]

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UMaine Surveying Students Place Second in National Event

Carlton Brown, 581-2781 ORONO — The University of Maine’s team of surveying engineering students recently won second place in the National Society of Professional Surveyors’ 10th annual student competition in Las Vegas. As part of the competition, held in conjunction with the California Land Surveyors and Nevada Association of Land Surveyors joint conference, seven student […]

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UMaine Math Students in International Competition

University of Maine math students Joshua Scripture, Ellen Moriarty and Eric Sawyer represented the university in the 71st Putnam Competition, held in December 2010.  Described by UMaine math professor David Bradley as being “widely known as the world’s toughest math contest,” the event featured 546 institutions and nearly 4,300 students from across North America.  Scripture […]

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UMaine Assisting Students Affected by Fire

Contact: Joe Carr, (207) 581-3571 or joe.carr@umit.maine.edu ORONO — More than a dozen University of Maine students are displaced by a Saturday evening fire at an Orono apartment complex.  University personnel are in close contact with those students and their families, providing assistance as needed. “Above all, we are thankful no one was injured,” says […]

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Researchers Use Sensor Technology to Improve Athletic Performance

Contacts: Thomas Ordelt, (207) 581-2328; George Manlove (207) 581-3756 ORONO — A University of Maine track and field coach has teamed up with exercise science and mechanical engineering researchers to improve the performance of his athletes. A study being conducted on the UMaine campus is employing scientific methods to identify the timing and magnitude of […]

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Harper Lee Biographer at UMaine April 12

Mary McDonagh Murphy, the film and television producer whose documentary “Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’” celebrates the 50th anniversary of that novel’s 1960 publication,  will visit UMaine on Tuesday April 12.  Murphy will participate in a screening of the film and a discussion during a session scheduled for 12:30-2 p.m. in […]

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Computer Game Writers Receive $3,000 Jackson Lab Contract

Contact: George Markowsky, (207) 581-3941; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — A team of University of Maine computer students recently received a $3,000 contract from the Jackson Laboratory to write an educational computer program for middle and high school students. The contract was awarded by Jackson Lab’s Center for Genome Dynamics, directed by Gary Churchill, […]

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UMaine Senior Wins Top Student Award from Paper Industry Group

Contact: Nick Knowlen, nicholas.knowlen@umit.maine.edu or (207) 699-8052 University of Maine senior chemical engineering major Nick Knowlen has been named the Paper Industry Management Association (PIMA) Student of the Year Knowlen, a Freeport native, will receive his award in May at PaperCon 2011, the national meeting of the Technical Association of the Pulp & Paper Industry […]

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Prof. Emeritus Alaric Faulkner, 1945-2011

Contact: Joe Carr Note: an obituary appears in the Monday March 21 Bangor Daily News.  It is online here. ORONO — Alaric Faulkner, a distinguished historical archaeologist who served 30 years on the University of Maine anthropology faculty, died on March 18 at the age of 66.  Faulkner, who retired in 2008 and was granted […]

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