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InterChemNet brings crystallography instrumentation to general chemistry students

The University of Maine InterChemNet (ICN) project has purchased crystallography instrumentation that will support opportunities for students in the second-semester general chemistry lab course, CHY 124. Starting in January 2018, the instrumentation will be used in multiweek project- and inquiry-based lab experiments. Crystallography, which uses a single crystal X-ray diffractometer, has been an essential tool […]

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Leslie to discuss marine resilience July 25 at Skidompha Library

Heather Leslie will be the featured “Chats with Champions” speaker at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 25 at Skidompha Library in Damariscotta. The director of the University of Maine Darling Marine Center will draw on her research in Maine and Mexico to discuss how the emerging science of marine resilience is changing how people understand and […]

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Wilson Center welcomes new director

The Wilson Center for Spiritual Exploration and Multifaith Dialogue welcomed the Rev. Lauren Seganos Cohen as its new director on July 1. Cohen comes to the Wilson Center with a passion for higher education and multifaith engagement. She was the inaugural interfaith service coordinator at Juniata College in Pennsylvania, facilitating undergraduate opportunities for interfaith and […]

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Maine Sea Grant ‘Estuary Beat’ column appearing in Working Waterfront

Maine Sea Grant has started a new collaboration with The Working Waterfront newspaper, published monthly by the Rockland, Maine-based Island Institute. The “Estuary Beat” column provides short updates on science and environment news, research and events in Maine’s coastal rivers, bays and harbors. Written by Catherine Schmitt, Sea Grant communications director, the goal of the […]

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Lord Hall Gallery to display work by two Port Clyde artists

This summer, the Lord Hall Gallery on the University of Maine campus will host exhibitions by two of Maine’s leading artists, both of whom live in Port Clyde. The Susan Groce and Antonia Small exhibits will be on display from July 24 through Sept. 22. A free public reception for the artists will be held […]

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Mandela Washington Fellows to present Ignite Talks July 24

University of Maine community members are invited to attend the 2017 Mandela Washington Fellows Ignite Talks presentation July 24 at Hauck Auditorium. From 1-4 p.m., each of the 25 fellows will deliver a three- to-five-minute, TEDx-style presentation on a concept or topic. Subjects to be discussed include women’s empowerment, water quality and access, health systems […]

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Psychology Ph.D. student receives two national awards

Hannah Lawrence, a fifth-year doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Maine, recently received two national awards. Lawrence, who is from Shaker Heights, Ohio, has been awarded the 2017 Graduate Student Research Grant from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT). ABCT awards one grant annually to a graduate student whose dissertation […]

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Brady to discuss Damariscotta River estuary environment at DMC

Damian Brady will deliver a talk titled “One if by land, two if by sea: Understanding how Maine estuaries are changing” at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 21 in Brooke Hall at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Seventy-five percent of Maine’s oyster harvest comes from the Damariscotta River. Brady will talk about […]

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Gardner named director of Rising Tide Center and WGS Program

Professor of higher education Susan Gardner has been named director of the University of Maine Rising Tide Center for Gender Equity, and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Her appointment, effective July 17, concludes a national search for a director of the center that is an outgrowth of UMaine’s ADVANCE Rising Tide Center and […]

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