CNBC had on its website an Associated Press story in which UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Barbara Murphy was quoted about gleaning leftover crops to donate to the needy. Murphy said gleaning is becoming more popular as a way to reduce waste.
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Contact: George Markowsky, 581-3940; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The lobby of UMaine’s Jenness Hall will become somewhat of an electronic games arcade Thursday, Dec. 9, from 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m., as eight teams of students will competitively showcase computer games they have created in a class, COS 125, Introduction to Problem Solving through Python Programming. […]
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Renaissance choral ensemble performs its fall concert Friday, Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall, with an opening performance by Bear Vocals. Admission $5, or $2 with a MaineCard.
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Correll Chair candidate presentation Monday Dec. 13 Bert Sweetman, a candidate for UMaine’s Correll Presidential Chair in Energy, will present a seminar on Monday Dec. 13. Sweetman, who is currently a Texas A&M faculty member, will discuss “Floating Wind Turbines Sutbject to Large Angular Motions: Dynamic Simulation using the Euler Equations of Motion” at 3:10 […]
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Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, 581-1904; Theresa Secord, 314-3120 ORONO — Celebrated Maine Indian basketmaker Jeremy Frey, who Tuesday evening received a prestigious $50,000 arts grant during ceremonies at Lincoln Center in New York, plans to return as an exhibitor in the University of Maine Hudson Museum’s annual Maine Native Basket Sale and Demonstration Saturday, Dec. 11. […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal reports on a new exhibit at the Maine State Museum in Augusta, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the wreck of the Nottingham Galley off the Maine coast near York. The exhibit includes video and photo depictions of the efforts of UMaine marine archaeologist Warren Riess, who recovered some of the ship’s […]
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Comments from Jim McConnon of the UMaine School of Economics faculty and Cooperative Extension are included in a Wednesday Lewiston Sun Journal report looking at the holiday retail season in Maine.
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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about a weekend incident in a UMaine documentary film class. According to news reports and accounts of those present, a student threatened to “butcher and skin” a live rabbit as part of a presentation to the class. The story includes comments from that student, along with two others, […]
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Contact: Catherine Schmitt (207) 581-1434 or catherine.schmitt@umit.maine.edu ORONO, Maine – Two University of Maine Ph.D. candidates have been selected to join the group of Sea Grant/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Service Fellows earning doctoral degrees in either fisheries population dynamics or marine resource economics, according to the NOAA National Sea Grant College Program. […]
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Three UMaine presenters highlighted the Thursday Dec. 2 legislative policy forum on preparing Maine’s workshop in Augusta. More than 100 members of the new Maine Legislature attended the forum, sponsored by the Legislative Council. UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center worked with the Maine Development Foundation and USM’s Muskie School of Public Service to plan […]
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