Anne Lichtenwalner, director of the UMaine Animal Health Lab, was interviewed for a Channel 2 (WLBZ) news report warning pet owners to keep potentially poisonous flowers and plants away from family pets. Animals that eat leaves from certain plants, like azaleas, daffodils and hostas, can experience vomiting and possibly kidney failure if untreated, Lichtenwalner said. […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried an article about a surprise graduation ceremony held at Eastern Maine Medical Center Wednesday for engineering major Jackie Blanchard of Corinth, who is undergoing treatment for cancer. UMaine President Paul Ferguson, College of Engineering Dean Dana Humphrey, former Gov. John Baldacci, UMaine women’s basketball coach Richard Barron and dozens of […]
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More than 40 members of the University of Maine Singers choral ensemble are on their way to Switzerland, Italy and Austria for a weeklong European concert tour. The singers, who raised the money themselves for the tour, will serve as musical ambassadors for the University of Maine throughout Europe. The University Singers is a select […]
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The Classified Employees Advisory Council and the Professional Employees Advisory Council have announced the University of Maine’s outstanding employees of the year.
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The University of Maine’s ADVANCE Rising Tide Center will host a conference on Monday, May 14, to give female faculty in engineering, mathematics, technology and the physical, biological, natural and social sciences an opportunity to meet and discuss strategies to support professional achievement.
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University of Maine President Paul Ferguson attended and spoke at a ceremony honoring a UMaine civil engineering graduate with cancer. Bangor Daily News covered the event.
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Installation of Maine’s first gigabit Internet network commercially available to business and residential customers has begun in the Old Town and Orono communities surrounding the University of Maine.
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As the national epidemic of opiate abuse and addiction continues to swell, the social and financial burden of treating infants born to drug-addicted mothers grows, too. The current issue of the “Journal of the American Medical Association” features an editorial co-written by University of Maine psychology professor Marie Hayes.
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Activity at Maine’s 144 golf courses, along with tourism-related spending by out-of-state golfers, generated a $270 million statewide economic contribution in 2011, according to research by University of Maine economists Todd Gabe and James McConnon.
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The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center the LEED Gold certification for its newly constructed Offshore Wind Laboratory. This is the first LEED Gold-certified building on the UMaine campus.
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