The Bangor Daily News carried a Falmouth Forecaster article about the town of Harpswell’s use of a parasitic fly — the Cyzenis albicans — to kill destructive and invasive winter moths noted that the University of Maine is assisting in the project by monitoring moth damage to town forests. The Maine Forest Service and University […]
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The Mass High Tech website posted an article about the Blackstone Accelerates Growth (BAG) program, in which UMaine is involved, and $3 million in funding from the Blackstone Charitable Foundation to launch a new Innovation Hubs initiative in Bangor and Portland. The Maine Technology Institute, the Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development and UMaine are part […]
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Three new University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA) exhibits open to the public Friday, Oct. 5, for the fall season. Exhibits include “Alan Bray: At the Edges,” which features more than 20 works by one of Maine’s most respected contemporary landscape painters; “Mayumi Sarai: Ring Cycle,” a display of floor-based and hanging sculptures; and […]
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The University of Maine and ESTIA, a nonprofit and nongovernmental organization based in Maine dedicated to the protection of cultural and biological diversity, will host the 9th Annual ESTIA Conference on “Slow Food: A Model for Sustainable and Healthy Living.” Interest in the concept of Slow Food has grown in recent years as more people […]
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Owen F. Smith, director of the Intermedia MFA program at the University of Maine, will participate in a panel Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the Maine College of Art in Portland on Intermedia as part of discussion sponsored by Portland Ovations. Titled “Post-Performance Lecture: Inter-media Panel Discussion,” the discussion […]
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University of Maine President Paul Ferguson attended the 13th annual National Outreach Scholarship Conference at the University of Alabama, which was held Oct. 1–2, and served on the judges’ panel for the 2012 C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award sponsored by the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU). Established in 2006 with […]
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In a Bangor Daily News article, University of Maine Athletic Director Steve Abbott discussed proposed renovation plans for Memorial Gym and the UMaine Field House, a project that is turning out to be more expensive than planned. Abbott said the project might have to be scaled back, although a decision on how to proceed won’t […]
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The St. John Valley Times in Aroostook County carried an article about a $249,600 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant awarded to the University of Maine for potato research at the university’s Aroostook Research Farm in Presque Isle and in Orono. Researchers are looking to improve potato breeding and continue variety development. Contact: George Manlove, (207) […]
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Retired Central Intelligence Agency specialist Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, will discuss Osama bin Laden and the future of al Qaeda in a lecture at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17 at the Buchanan Alumni House at the University of Maine. Sponsored by the […]
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UMaine accounting professor Steve Colburn was interviewed by several media outlets for articles about methodology political candidates used when releasing their tax filings. In an Associated Press report that appeared on the Boston Globe website, Colburn said presidential candidate Mitt Romney came close to meeting the standard set in the textbook used by UMaine students. […]
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