Campus Announcements

Latest Invention: Stronger, Longer-Lasting Fuel Cell Technology

Fuel cells are alternative energy-generation devices that provide continuous electricity with low to zero emissions at the source. NASA first used modern fuel cells in space vehicles. Today, fuels cells provide power in a variety of applications, including automobiles, backup generators, fork lifts and portable electronic devices. One type of fuel cell, the proton exchange membrane […]

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Two UMaine Projects Receive Northeastern States Research Cooperative Awards

The Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC), a competitive grant program supported by the USDA Forest Service and serving the states of Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont announced its 2015 research awards to advance cross-disciplinary, collaborative research in the Northern Forest region. The University of Maine will lead two of the 11 projects to […]

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Cohen Institute Forum to Focus on Debate over International Free Trade

The University of Maine’s Cohen Institute for Leadership and Public Service will host a town hall forum Tuesday, April 14 with international trade expert Peter Madigan ’81. The forum, “The Political and Economic Debate over International Free Trade,” begins at 2 p.m. in Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall. It is free and open to the public. […]

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Compost Sale to Benefit 4-H in Androscoggin, Sagadahoc Counties

A compost sale will be held from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 25, at Justalittle Farm, 58 Ridge Road, Lisbon Falls. Compost is seasoned for three years and is suitable for use this growing season. Cost is $5 per cubic foot bag; truckloads are available for $35 per tractor scoop. Bags of compost also […]

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Knowles Named 2015 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow

Anne Kelly Knowles, who in August will begin her position at the University of Maine as a professor in the History Department, has been named a 2015 fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the […]

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Learn to Prune, Graft Apple Trees at Free Field Day

University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a free apple tree pruning and grafting field day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 25, at Avalon Acres Orchard & Farm, 234 Dexter Road, Saint Albans. Avalon Acres owner Mark Sheriff, an alumnus of the UMaine Extension Master Gardener Volunteers program, will present information about […]

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Rezendes Ethics Lecture Set for Earth Day

Baird Callicott, a philosophy professor at the University of North Texas, will present the 2015 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics Lecture at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, in Nutting Hall, Room 100 at the University of Maine. Callicott’s Earth Day lecture is titled, “Thinking Like a Planet: The Land Ethic and the Earth […]

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Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain to play at CCA

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain members will sing, whistle and play ukuleles they bought with loose change at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 23, at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. The eight-member ukulele orchestra, which formed in 1985, is on its 30 Plucking Years World Tour. In June 2015, it […]

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MPBN to Air Sen. Susan Collins’ Lecture at UMaine

The Maine Public Broadcasting Network will air a talk given by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins at 1 p.m. Thursday, April 9 as part of its “Speaking in Maine” public affairs lecture series. Collins delivered the Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Lecture at the Collins Center for the Arts on March 31. During her address, “Incivility […]

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