University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the University of New Hampshire will host a pasture walk from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 10, at Balfour Farm in Pittsfield. The event will include presentations about organic dairy farms, pasture intakes and dairy cow diets. The pasture walk is open to the public and […]
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Photographs from the recent book coauthored by Paul Mayewski, the director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, will be displayed July 6-28 in a San Francisco art gallery. The Canessa Gallery will show restored period photographs and other images from “Journey Into Climate: Adventure, The Golden Age of Climate Research, and the Unmasking of Human Innocence,” […]
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Recently the University of Maine recognized 2,026 students for achieving Deans List honors in the Spring 2012 semester. Of the students who made the Deans List, 1,728 are from Maine, 242 are from out of state, and 56 are from foreign countries. Listed below are students who received Deans List honors for the 2012 Spring […]
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University of Maine President Paul Ferguson has been elected to serve a two-year term on the steering committee of the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). His term begins July 1. ACUPCC is a consortium of 677 colleges and universities committed to reducing carbon emissions and aggressively promoting energy efficiency. The 33-member steering […]
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Adrienne Leppold, a University of Maine Ph.D. candidate in the School of Biology and Ecology, has been awarded a Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation fellowship for her work studying songbird migration in the Gulf of Maine. Leppold works with UMaine bird biologist Rebecca Holberton, who leads the Northeast Regional Migration Monitoring Network. More information about […]
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A University of Maine Hudson Museum video of an interview with Passamaquoddy basketweaver Molly Neptune-Parker of Princeton, Maine, was posted on the National Endowment for the Arts website as part of an announcement that Neptune-Parker was named one of nine National Heritage Fellows. The video was created by the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance and the […]
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The America East Conference has announced that the University of Maine had 134 of its winter and spring student-athletes named to the 2011-12 America East Honor Roll. Students had to earn grade-point averages of 3.0 or higher to receive the recognition. Out of those 134 student-athletes, 74 were named to the America East Commissioner’s Honor […]
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University of Maine women’s cross country and track and field standout Corey Conner has been named to the Capital One/CoSIDA Women’s Cross Country and Track Academic All-American second team. A senior nursing major from Townsend, Mass., Conner earned second team All-American honors this year after placing 16th in the 5,000-meter race at the 2012 NCAA […]
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A new book, “The Lobster Book,” by Virginia Wright and published by Down East magazine, includes a chapter devoted to the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine and mentions several lobster byproducts developed there. The author interviewed Lobster Institute Director Robert Bayer, who described research into such industry elements as lobster behavior, disease, regulation […]
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Erin Victoria Carter, a University of Maine biochemistry and molecular/cellular biology major, has won a prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Carter’s academic goal is to attain a Ph.D. in immunology or molecular biology and her career goal is to conduct AIDS or autoimmune disease research for a university or other research facility. She will be […]
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