Contact: Catherine Schmitt, 207-581-1434 Orono, ME—Maine Sea Grant has announced that the National Sea Grant College Program has awarded prestigious Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships to two people with graduate degrees from Maine colleges. Jocelyn Brown-Saracino and Danielle Brzezinski join 46 fellow graduates from around the country who will be working on marine […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine will host two March lectures, presented by its Program in Western Civilization and American Liberty. L. Joseph Hebert, St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, with give a talk, “Getting Rights Wrong: Tocqueville’s Perspective on Individual Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court,” on Friday, […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Prof. Jonathan Rubin from the University of Maine School of Economics and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center will make a Thursday March 11 presentation Washington, D.C. Rubin is one of five presenters scheduled for a panel on the subject “From the Little Guy to the Big Picture, […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine will join the growing list of U.S. colleges and universities to adopt a tobacco-free campus policy, effective Jan. 1, 2011. Over the next ten months, UMaine will implement an information campaign and begin working with students and employees who wish to break their […]
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Contact: Judy Round, round@maine.edu or (207) 581-5104 Note: a photo of Michelle Murphy is available upon request ORONO — The University of Maine Geddes W. Simpson Lecture Committee has selected Michelle Murphy, associate professor of history and the Institute of Women Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto, to present that annual lecture. […]
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Contact: David Dvorak, 581-2338; Paul Villeneuve, 581-2271; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 ORONO – Students at the University of Maine will have a chance to participate in a new course in the Fall of 2010 that’s all about renewable energy. Renewable Energy and Electricity Production will introduce the different types of renewable energy technologies and geographical […]
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Contact: Prof. Steve Evans, (207) 581-3818 steven.evans@maine.edu ORONO — A new University of Maine endowment fund will support graduate student achievement in poetry. The Frank and Helene Crohn Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize was established by the Crohns, of Rhinebeck, N.Y., through a $300,000 gift held at the University of Maine Foundation. Building on the […]
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Contact Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Two prestigious University of Maine honor societies are accepting nominations for new student members. The Senior Skull Society and All Maine Women are open to UMaine juniors. The Senior Skull Society is made up of students who have shown leadership, academic achievement, community service, responsibility, character and […]
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Contact: Erin-Kate Sousa at (207) 581-3842 erin-kate.sousa@umit.maine.edu ORONO — For the tenth consecutive year, a contingent from Japan’s Hirosaki University will visit the University of Maine for an intensive three-week course on English language and U.S. culture. The 12 students begin the course on Monday Feb. 22. It continues through Friday March 12. UMaine’s Intensive […]
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For the third year in a row, the University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures & Composites Center has been recognized as an industry leader by the American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA).
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