Contact: Vicky Blanchette at (207) 581-2204 The Maine Coalition, comprising Challenger Learning Center of Maine, Maine Discovery Museum and University of Maine College of Engineering, has been chosen by WGBH/NOVA and the Materials Research Society to present a series of local events on nano and materials science as part of the four-part Making Stuff NOVA […]
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Tracey Nelson, a UMaine Cooperative Extension publications distribution manager and graphic designer, commented in a Bangor Daily News story about the increasing interest in Cooperative Extension’s on-line informational pamphlets.
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The website sify.com has a story about the discovery of the oldest identifiable domestic dog in the Americas made by UMaine graduate student Samuel Belknap.
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Contact: Shannon Folsom, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — A University of Maine dean’s list student from Saco has been crowned Miss Collegiate America 2011. Shannon Folsom, 20, an Honors College sophomore majoring in kinesiology and fulfilling pre-med requirements, was crowned Saturday, Jan. 8 at the Miss Collegiate America Pageant in San Antonio, Texas. Folsom […]
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WVII broadcast a Wednesday story about UMaine’s new tobacco-free campus policy. The story featured an interview with Lauri Sidelko from the UMaine Division of Student Affairs, co-chair of the university’s tobacco-free campus committee.
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Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News included a guest column by Robert Ferguson, a local clinical psychologist who also serves as a clinical associate in UMaine’s psychology department. The column, “Treating chronic pain beyond medicine,” analyzes issues related to prescription medicine addictions in Maine. In his UMaine role, Ferguson supervises students and collaborates with faculty members.
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Comments from Dean Dana Humphrey of UMaine’s College of Engineering are included in a Thursday Portland Press Herald story about a Wednesday Portland forum on the “technical revolution” and Maine’s economic future. Humphrey notes that the UMaine college is at record enrollment levels, but it is not able to educate enough engineers to meet the […]
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Contact: David Whitehill, (207) 992-3511 or david@bangorsymphony.org Four University of Maine music students will have the opportunity to participate in a master class with award-winning pianist Martina Filjak from 10 a.m. to noon Friday, January 14, in UMaine’s Minsky Recital Hall. Each student will have an opportunity to play for Filjak, the winner of the […]
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UMaine researcher Jessica Fales’ report linking teen dating and depression was referenced on the blog thehairpin.com.
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A UMaine graduate student’s discovery of the oldest domesticated dog ever found in the Americas was mentioned on the website Physorg.com. Samuel Belknap, a student in the department of anthropology and Climate Change Institute, found a fragment of bone from the skull of a dog. The bone was directed dated at 9,400 years old.
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