The Boston Globe ran an Associated Press advance about this week’s inauguration of UMaine President Paul W. Ferguson and the events of Leadership Week, including Wednesday’s keynote speech by noted author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. The inauguration will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Collins Center for the Arts. Bangor TV station […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension experts throughout Maine are available to discuss April gardening tips, in addition to information on fiddleheads – from the harvest to cleaning, proper cooking and preserving.
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Just in time for Earth Day, anyone in the U.S. can see important environmental factors easily and instantly Orono, Maine, April 12, 2012 – With 10Green, a new, interactive web tool (10Green.org) you can get a comprehensive assessment of the health of your local environment with just a few keystrokes. Just enter your zip code […]
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California’s Sacramento Bee newspaper carried a news release about the new “10Green” interactive web tool designed by the University of Maine Climate Change Institute to provide 10 air quality measures of pollutants such as carbon monoxide, large and small particulates, ozone, sulfur dioxide and heavy metals. Institute Director Paul Mayewski said in an interview that […]
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Friedrich Löhr, consul general of the Federal Republic of Germany in Boston, will speak at the University of Maine on Tuesday, April 17 about Germany and the European monetary crisis and, in a second talk, the tenacity of North Korean leadership. At 2 p.m. in the Bodwell Lounge in the Collins Center for the Arts, […]
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World-renowned historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will deliver the keynote address for University of Maine Leadership Week on April 18 at the Collins Center for the Arts.
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Meredith Jones, president and CEO of the Maine Community Foundation and this year’s University of Maine Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center’s Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow, will spend Thursday, April 12 on campus for meetings with President Paul Ferguson and faculty and students to discuss student-led philanthropy and advanced research funding under way at UMaine. Jones […]
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George Kinghorn, the director of the University of Maine Museum of Art, was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News report about a sculpture in downtown Bangor that is set to be moved to a different location. Kinghorn, who is also vice president of the Downtown Bangor Partnership board, spoke out in favor of the move […]
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Several media outlets, including the Bangor Daily News, covered Tuesday’s car accident that killed UMaine student Timothy J. Dodge, a 19-year-old from Rockland. Bangor TV station WABI also had a report on the accident. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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With 76 million Americans poised to turn age 65 in the coming decades, it’s time to redefine the concept of the aged and elders, as older people today are far healthier, more mobile, better educated, more active, politically aware and outspoken than earlier generations, according to Len Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center […]
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