El Comercio, Peru’s leading newspaper, has published an interview with University of Maine Ph.D. student Ana Cecilia Mauricio, who recently completed her master’s degree in Quaternary and Climate Studies at UMaine and organized with a Peruvian graduate student, the first conference on Lima culture in the first millennium A.D. in the area around Peru’s capital, […]
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A Bangor Daily News editorial discussed the recent Princeton Review listings of colleges and universities with rankings in a variety of areas, including access to professors, food quality, student satisfaction and campuses prone to partying. The editorial acknowledged that while the ratings are subjective and hard to quantify, university leaders would be well-served to scrutinize […]
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A University of Maine researcher who specializes in the economics of energy, light-duty transportation, greenhouse gas emissions and alternative fuels is heading to Alberta, Canada, Aug. 28-30 to participate in a tour of the Canadian oil sands region, which contains one of the largest proven oil reserves in the world second only to Saudi Arabia. […]
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Several University of Maine administrators and others were interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article discussing the cost and value of UMaine’s athletics programs and sports teams. UMaine President Paul Ferguson, Athletic Director Steve Abbott, Vice President for Administration and Finance Janet Waldron and UMaine history professor Howard Segal were interviewed for the story. Ferguson […]
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The University of Maine campus was packed Monday, Aug. 27 with thousands of visitors from around the country for the third Summer Tour, a UMaine admissions event that gave prospective students and their guests the opportunity to ask questions about UMaine, tour the campus, get a glimpse of student life and even skate on the […]
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Bangor TV station WVII reported on an appearance Friday of three artists participating in the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium, which is being held this year in partnership with UMaine in the Steam Plant parking lot on College Avenue in Orono. Three of the sculptors spoke at an event in Acadia Hospital in Bangor. Contact: George […]
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In a story posted by WABI (Channel 5), President Paul Ferguson was quoted as saying, “The challenge of today is to show them as much of the breadth and depth of the University of Maine that they can get in one day and also just UMaine hospitality.”
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The following information from the Division of Student Affairs relates to parking and traffic on campus leading up to Friday, Aug. 31 and the Maine Hello. As the University of Maine prepares for the arrival of the Class of 2016 on Friday, Aug. 31 it is important to be aware of parking lot closures and […]
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The NickerNews.net website has quoted University of Maine Cooperative Extension veterinarian Anne Lichtenwalner in a report on mosquito-borne West Nile Virus, which can be fatal to horses, human and other animals. The article links to an Extension question and answer interview with Lichtenwalner, director of the UMaine Animal Health Laboratory, and her video about precautions […]
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The website Science 360 has featured a University of Maine news article about UMaine marine scientist Rhian Waller, who has been studying deep sea coral in the fjords of Chile. She is studying the reproductive ecology of corals and links to climate change, fishing and oil exploration as part of a research expedition funded by […]
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