The science website Adventures in Climate Change has posted a recent blog from a University of Maine Climate Change Institute team currently doing fieldwork in Alaska’s Denali National Park. Seth Campbell, a graduate student in the UMaine Climate Change Institute, is leading the expedition and this week posted his second blog updating the status of […]
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Nationally known children’s book author and illustrator Gail Gibbons recently received the first annual Correll Book Award for Excellence in Early Childhood Informational Text, a new national award created through the University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development.
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Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, UMaine professor of food science and human nutrition, has been awarded a Senior Fulbright Specialist grant in agriculture, which will enable her to continue her research on the health benefits of wild blueberries at the Food Science and Human Nutrition Department at the University of Milan in Italy. In 2007 she received a […]
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University of Maine faculty member, Honors College preceptor and folklorist Melissa Ladenheim has received Maine Campus Compact’s Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence. The award recognizes the accomplishments of faculty members in making public service an integral part of their teaching, forging strong and reciprocal community partnerships, and advocating for service learning. The award […]
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David Handley, University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist at Highmoor Farm in Monmouth, has been judged a winner in the National Association of County Agricultural Agents Communications Awards Program for a video on raspberry pruning. He will be recognized in mid-July at the Communications Awards Luncheon in Charleston, S.C. In addition, […]
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A University of Maine computer server has been breached by hackers, potentially exposing personal information of individuals who made purchases through campus-based computer stores at UMaine and the University of Arkansas. While law enforcement’s forensic analysis of the data continues,early estimates are that up to 1,007 online-only transaction records —including names and partial credit card […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried a review of the current fiber arts exhibit at the University of Maine Museum of Art, which includes “Vanished into Stitches,” a series of life-size knitted animal pelts. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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An Associated Press article in the Bangor Daily News and a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report included comments from University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer about the possible effects on Maine’s Republican Senate candidates that the weekend’s GOP convention had when activists for presidential candidates Ron Paul and Mitt Romney took center stage. Maine […]
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