The University of Maine recognized 2,267 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the spring 2016 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,721 are from Maine, 483 are from 32 other states and 63 are from 27 countries other than the U.S. Listed below are students who received Dean’s List honors for […]
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Fourteen student-led projects addressing food insecurity on college campuses, in high schools and in communities statewide have been awarded mini-grants from the Maine Hunger Dialogue, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension-led initiative that mobilizes the power of higher education to end hunger in the state. The recipients of mini-grants of as much as $500 are: […]
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Registration is open for the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s annual Maine Grain Conference, to be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 23, at Northern Maine Community College, 33 Edgemont Drive, Presque Isle. Post-harvest handling is the theme of the conference designed for farmers, crop advisers and others involved in the agricultural […]
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Over the past couple of weeks, several University of Maine centers and programs have upgraded to the university’s new website template. Newly launched websites include: Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies Levesque Lab Howell Biointerface and Biomimetics Lab Aroostook Farm Blueberry Hill Farm Roger Clapp Greenhouses & Littlefield Garden Highmoor Farm Rogers Farm J. […]
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Sunday is not a day of rest for Katherine (Katie) Keaton. From 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., the theatre major at the University of Maine rehearses dances for various projects and clubs. “My friends know I’m not free on Sundays,” says the Caribou native who concentrates in scenic design and minors in dance and business […]
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Could the rise of the Mongol Empire, the greatest land empire ever on Earth, have been linked to climate change? Aaron Putnam thinks so. In 2010 and 2011, Putnam, previously at Columbia University and now an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and the Climate Change Institute at the University of […]
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The University of Maine recognized 2,216 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the fall 2015 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,665 are from Maine, 468 are from 30 other states and 83 are from 25 countries other than the U.S. Listed below are students who received Dean’s List honors for […]
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Nicholas Willey once planned to be a lawyer. Then, at his mother’s suggestion, the then-Caribou High School student attended the free University of Maine Pulp & Paper Foundation program “Consider Engineering” that gives juniors insight into the field. “It really opened my eyes to what engineering encompassed,” says Willey. As well as persuasively made the […]
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On about 20 acres in rural Kennebec County along Long Pond sits a lodge, as well as accompanying carriage house and cottages, that will become a rehabilitation retreat for wounded veterans and their families. The property, which crosses the boundary between the towns of Rome and Mount Vernon, was built in 1929 and owned by […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the recipients of the Academic Year Research and Creative Activities Fellowships for 2015–16. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research. Each fellowship provides a $1,000 award for the student to help cover costs of their project. The […]
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