The University Club at Raymond H. Fogler Library will host a book launch at 7 p.m. Aug. 23 to mark the release of “The Plants of Baxter State Park.” The event will feature a presentation from the book’s authors and organizers, and will be the first opportunity for the public to purchase the publication. The […]
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Dwayne VanRheenen, a former University of Maine faculty member in speech communication and a department chair, died Aug. 11. He was 72. The online alumni magazine of Abilene Christian University, where he served as provost prior to his retirement, published a tribute to him.
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University of Maine researcher Aaron Putnam has completed his 2016 summer search for climate clues in Mongolia. Kevin Stark, a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism who’s embedded with Putnam’s research team, entered his final post about the trek Aug. 3, at a science laboratory in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia. […]
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard history professor, will deliver the lecture, “Patty’s Sampler and Phebe’s Quilt: Traces of Maine in the American West” at 12:45 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, at the Collins Center for the Arts. Ulrich demonstrates how the diaries, letters and needlework of Patty Sessions and Phebe Woodruff suggest new […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension will host a farm field day 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 22, at UMaine’s Aroostook Research Farm in Presque Isle. Participants will meet at U.S. Agricultural Research Service, 59 Houlton Road, Presque Isle. Field day topics will include grain trials, potato breeding and the variety trial program, and crop rotation for […]
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The works of nine contemporary Maine artists will be featured in the exhibition “ENCAUSTIC — wax+heat,” Sept. 16 through Dec. 9 at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. An opening reception will be held from 5:30–7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16. The exhibit in the H. Alan and Sally Fernald Art Gallery will highlight […]
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Samuel Belknap, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology and the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was featured in a four-part film series produced by the Island Institute. “A Climate of Change” highlights fishing communities threatened by the effects of a changing climate and what they are doing to adapt. The […]
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Adeseye Lasekan, a Ph.D. student in the Food Science and Human Nutrition Program in the School of Food and Agriculture, was awarded first place in the Toxicology and Safety Evaluation Division student research poster competition organized by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT). He is working with Balunkeswar (Balu) Nayak, an assistant professor of food […]
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The University of Maine and the National Science Foundation invite faculty and college students to attend a workshop that gives insights about submitting proposals for federal money to fund research on Thursday, Oct. 13, at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. At NSF Day, early career and tenure track faculty, as well as college students, […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension faculty and professional staff will take to the WZON AM 620 airwaves starting Aug. 25 for a half-hour live segment with host Don Cookson at 8 a.m. every other Thursday on seasonal topics — from horticulture, food preservation and safety, pest management and the growth of local foods to small […]
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