Contact: John Belding, (207) 299-7904; Carl Spang, (617) 510-9295 ORONO — University of Maine researchers in the College of Engineering’s Advanced Manufacturing Center and AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center have successfully designed a composite toe-protection insert for Falcon Performance Footwear, an Auburn shoe company. The new composite component replaces traditional steel toe protection. Falcon […]
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Contact: Naomi Jacobs, (207) 581-3823 ORONO — The College Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine is hosting Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer Elizabeth Strout and her husband, former Maine Attorney General Jim Tierney, March 22-24 to visit classes, meet with students and deliver a public reading. Strout is the author of three successful […]
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Contact: Mary Tyler, (207) 581-2559 or Mary.Tyler@umit.maine.edu University of Maine zoology Professor Mary S. Tyler has won the 2011 Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize from the Society of Developmental Biology. Tyler’s research in developmental biology includes the area of genetic controls and tissue interactions during embryonic development, which she examines using experimental and histological techniques. […]
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Contact: Harlan Onsrud, (207) 581-2175 or onsrud@spatial.maine.edu University of Maine Professor Harlan Onsrud was named a Fellow of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) at the organization’s recent spring meeting. Onsrud, a member of the Department of Spatial Information and Science at UMaine, served as president of UCGIS and was instrumental in its […]
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ORONO — The University of Maine System Board of Trustees has approved UMaine President Robert Kennedy’s tenure and/or promotion recommendations for 31 faculty members. The board’s action came at its Monday meeting. “These professors represent the most outstanding characteristics of UMaine’s wonderful faculty,” Kennedy says. “As leading members of our community of scholars, they inspire […]
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Contact: Dennis Cox, (dkcox@maine.edu), Jack Burt, (207) 581-1773 (jburt@maine.edu) ORONO — Back from a five-day, four-state New England tour, the University of Maine’s University Singers are preparing for several concerts in Maine — March 15 at Merrill Auditorium in Portland, and March 19-20 in Orono. At Merrill Auditorium, the Singers, with about 80 members, will […]
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Contact: Peggy Markson 973-3245 (mobile 949-1250) AUGUSTA – This afternoon the University of Maine System Board of Trustees approved Chancellor Richard Pattenaude’s recommendation of Dr. Paul Ferguson as the next president of UMaine, the state’s flagship and land-grant university in Orono. “Dr. Ferguson brings a successful track record of leadership positions at similar institutions and […]
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Former Maine Attorney General James Tierney will lead a public forum examining the outcomes and implications of the 2010 election cycle, Thursday March 24 at 12 noon in Memorial Union’s Totman Room. Tierney, a UMaine graduate who also ran for governor, serves as director of the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia University Law […]
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Contact: John Mahon, (207) 581-1976 University of Maine business professor John Mahon is available to discuss how events in Japan may affect global, US and even local economies and markets, including tourism. Mahon, the John M. Murphy Chair of International Business Policy and Strategy in the Maine Business School, expects fallout could be far-reaching. Among […]
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Contacts: Alice Kelley, (207) 866-3422, (207) 745-6785 or akelley@maine.edu; Paul Myer, (207) 581-3756; Keiko Myer, (207) 581-2697 ORONO — Several University of Maine faculty and staff members are available Friday for media interviews about the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan and resulting tsunami, the possible financial impacts of the natural disaster on one of the world’s […]
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