The Bangor Daily News reported on the temporary evacuation Feb. 21 of Hitchner Hall at the University of Maine after a chemical reaction released chlorine gas in a lab in the building. The chemical reaction was contained, no injuries were reported and employees and students returned to the building after several hours.
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Hitchner Hall reopened at 2:15 p.m., Feb. 21 after a small chemical reaction in a third-floor hallway caused the building to be evacuated midday. No injuries were reported. As a precaution, four building occupants were sent to Cutler Health Center for observation. A laboratory manager was attempting to neutralize chlorine tablets in a five-gallon bucket […]
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The Panhellenic Council at the University of Maine, an organization of UMaine’s seven sororities, received five national awards recently from the Association of Fraternal Leadership Values. The awards are for academic achievement, council management, philanthropy and community service, risk reduction and management, self-governance and judicial affairs. Council members Geena Lucas, president, Elissa Bate, vice president […]
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University of Maine alumnus and Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Resource Economics Edward F. Johnston Jr. died Feb. 17 in Bangor at age 85, according to his obituary in the Bangor Daily News. A native of Easton, Maine, Johnston spent 37 years with the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station researching potato storage, handling and […]
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Andover, the magazine of Phillips Academy, noted in its alumni accomplishments section on page 58 that University of Maine Research Professor of Geological Sciences Ed Grew recently had two newly discovered minerals named after him by Russian geologists.
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The international website Fresh Plaza published an article about University of Maine Department of Plant, Soil, and Environmental Sciences graduate student Kristen Brown, who is working to develop a potato variety that is resistant to potato blight. Channel 7 (WVII) also reported on the research.
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Orono Town Planner Evan Richert will be the guest speaker from 9 a.m.–noon, Thursday, Feb. 21 at 107 Norman Smith Hall for a free public workshop and discussion on university-community partnerships, presented by CERTS (Community Engaged Research, Teaching and Service) at the University of Maine. The workshop title is “Community Engagement: Co-Determining Needs and Capacities.” […]
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Jeff Thaler, University of Maine Visiting Professor of Energy Law and Policy with the UMaine School of Economics and the University of Maine School of Law, will join a panel discussion March 2 at a Yale Law School conference on environmental law. Themes to be explored at the “New Directions in Environmental Law: The Power […]
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Terry Porter, UMaine associate professor of management, has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship to spend the spring 2014 semester at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom researching, in collaboration with colleagues there, the social processes by which business organizations navigate toward greater sustainability.
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A University of Maine graduate student and a faculty member have received an international Digital Humanities Award for their work in digital humanities, which combines studies and information in liberal arts and humanities with computer technology for storage, sharing or exploring research. In recognition of their collaborative Digital Humanities Toolbox UMaine history doctoral candidate Rob […]
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