Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Frederick E. Hutchinson, a native of the rural Maine town of Atkinson who graduated from the University of Maine in 1953 and later became his alma mater’s president, died today in Bangor at the age of 79. The first member of his family to attend college, Hutchinson […]
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Contact: Roberta Laverty, (207) 581-2121; Aimee Dolloff (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – Matthew Simmons, founder of The Ocean Energy Institute in Rockland, Maine, will present “The Dawning of Ocean Energy: Our Last Frontier” at 1 p.m. Friday, April 9, at Wells Conference Center at the University of Maine. Simmons, chair emeritus of the energy investment […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection commissioner David Littell will visit the University of Maine on Monday, April 5 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Littell has been commissioner since January 2006. He oversees an extensive state agency with more […]
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Contact: Sarah Morehead at sarah.morehead@maine.edu ORONO — The University of Maine School of Economics’ Household Financial Education Program (HFEP) is preparing to take its money management workshop to local schools, beginning later this spring. The school started HFEP in 2008 as a way to extend economics expertise to those managing household budgets during difficult financial […]
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Contact: Stephani Nola, 581-3285 ORONO — Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times reporter and University of Maine alumnae Bettina Boxall will be on campus April 12-18 to visit with students and present this year’s Distinguished Honors Graduate Lecture Wednesday, April 14. Boxall, a 1974 UMaine graduate, shared the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting with Los […]
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Contact: Brendan Carr at (207) 581-1508 brendan.carr@umit.maine.edu ORONO — The University of Maine will work to raise awareness related to violence against women during its White Ribbon Campaign, Monday April 5-Friday April 9. Members of the UMaine community, especially men, are encouraged to wear white ribbons as symbols of their opposition to violence against women. […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — An extensive Penobscot County Conservation Association (PCCA) scholarship program that began with a $150 donation in 1960 continues to pay dividends for University of Maine wildlife ecology students. In recognition of the 50th anniversary of that first scholarship, UMaine wildlife ecology faculty chair James Gilbert and several […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at 581-3571 UMaine will host a Monday, March 29 public forum for discussion related to this week’s Academic Program Prioritization Working Group (APPWG) interim report. That report, which outlines a series of recommended academic program modifications, is online here. The forum is scheduled for 1-4 p.m. It will not include a formal […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — An interim report from the University of Maine’s Academic Program Prioritization Working Group (APPWG) lists a series of potential changes that would reduce UMaine’s academic program budget by $12,255,000 over three years beginning in July 2011. This is the primary component of an overall university budget reduction […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571, joe.carr@umit.maine.edu ORONO — University of Maine President Robert Kennedy announced today he will begin a 14-month process during which he will transition from his current role as president of the state’s land grant/sea grant university to a four year appointment where he will work on projects related to statewide […]
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