The University of Maine will hold its annual Clean Sweep Sale on from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, May 18 and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 19 at Estabrooke Hall. Items being sold were donated by students who moved out in early May or by the university. Items for sale include twin beds, dressers, […]
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Carol Bankart Gilmore, 71, retired professor of business management at the University of Maine and owner of Windrift Farm in Charleston, passed away on May 9, 2012. She suffered a stroke, according to her obituary in the Bangor Daily News. Gilmore was born Dec. 18, 1940. She taught at UMaine from 1977 until the end […]
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More than 40 members of the University of Maine Singers choral ensemble are on their way to Switzerland, Italy and Austria for a weeklong European concert tour. The singers, who raised the money themselves for the tour, will serve as musical ambassadors for the University of Maine throughout Europe. The University Singers is a select […]
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The Classified Employees Advisory Council and the Professional Employees Advisory Council have announced the University of Maine’s outstanding employees of the year.
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The University of Maine’s ADVANCE Rising Tide Center will host a conference on Monday, May 14, to give female faculty in engineering, mathematics, technology and the physical, biological, natural and social sciences an opportunity to meet and discuss strategies to support professional achievement.
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The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center the LEED Gold certification for its newly constructed Offshore Wind Laboratory. This is the first LEED Gold-certified building on the UMaine campus.
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Nationally known children’s book author and illustrator Gail Gibbons recently received the first annual Correll Book Award for Excellence in Early Childhood Informational Text, a new national award created through the University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development.
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Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, UMaine professor of food science and human nutrition, has been awarded a Senior Fulbright Specialist grant in agriculture, which will enable her to continue her research on the health benefits of wild blueberries at the Food Science and Human Nutrition Department at the University of Milan in Italy. In 2007 she received a […]
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University of Maine faculty member, Honors College preceptor and folklorist Melissa Ladenheim has received Maine Campus Compact’s Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence. The award recognizes the accomplishments of faculty members in making public service an integral part of their teaching, forging strong and reciprocal community partnerships, and advocating for service learning. The award […]
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David Handley, University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist at Highmoor Farm in Monmouth, has been judged a winner in the National Association of County Agricultural Agents Communications Awards Program for a video on raspberry pruning. He will be recognized in mid-July at the Communications Awards Luncheon in Charleston, S.C. In addition, […]
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