Planning a trip to Norway, Fiji, Australia, Italy or Thailand? Eager to know more about its customs, food, languages and transportation? The Second Annual International Trade Show at the University of Maine is just the ticket to learn about these countries and 30 other global destinations. UMaine students in Clint Relyea’s Introduction to International Business […]
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Graduate research assistant Libby Gorse, whose lab is in the basement of Boardman Hall at the University of Maine, is excited about research she’s spearheading for a Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET) project. She and Aria Amirbahman, professor of civil and environmental engineering, are studying the effects that aquaculture farms have on sediment below them. […]
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Rebecca Van Beneden, professor of biochemistry and marine sciences, and Adrienne White, professor of human nutrition, will be honored with University of Maine 2016 ADVANCE Career Recognition Awards at a celebration April 22. The ADVANCE Career Recognition Awards Celebration is from 11 a.m.–1 p.m. in Wells Conference Center. Highlighting the event will be presentations by […]
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University of Maine anthropologist Paul “Jim” Roscoe has been named the 2016 Distinguished Maine Professor by the University of Maine Alumni Association. Roscoe, a world-renowned leader in cultural anthropology, is a professor of anthropology, and a cooperating professor in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute and the School of Policy and International Affairs. Sponsored by UMaine’s classes […]
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The fourth annual Maine Humanities Summit aims to deepen the understanding of how the humanities play a crucial role in the post-war homecoming of service people, as well as their family members and communities. The public is invited to join the conversation and enjoy a buffet dinner starting with a reception at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday, […]
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Nicholas Fried of Millerstown, Pennsylvania, is the 2016 University of Maine valedictorian and Connor Smart of Lincoln, Maine, is the salutatorian. The honors students will receive their degrees at UMaine’s 214th Commencement in Harold Alfond Sports Arena May 14. Fried majored in animal and veterinary sciences, with a minor in chemistry. This fall, he will […]
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Aaron Putnam has been awarded one of most prestigious grants for an early-career scientist. Early career indeed. Putnam has been on the job at the University of Maine for about eight months as the George H. Denton Assistant Professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences. In May, he’ll take the reins of a […]
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The University of Maine will host several public programs centered around a free performance of a play that offers historical and contemporary insight into the plight of women in Iran. “The Poets and the Assassin” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7 in Minsky Recital Hall on campus. The play portrays struggles Iranian […]
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The Maine Sea Grant College Program has awarded funds to University of Maine faculty for three new research projects representing more than $500,000 in investment from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and matching sources. Hamish Greig, an assistant professor of stream ecology in the School of Biology and Ecology, plans to study the fate […]
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The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development has announced the 2015–16 faculty and staff awards. The awards are: Teaching Excellence Award — Susan Bennett-Armistead, a full-time associate professor of literacy; and Dick Young, a part-time lecturer Research and Creative Achievement Award — Sandra Caron, professor of family relations and human sexuality Faculty […]
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