The Cumulus radio station group, including WQCB-FM, broadcast a news report featuring UMaine math professor Andre Khalil’s work in developing new methods for analyzing structural changes in cancer cells. This work, described in a UMaine news release, could lead to methods for earlier detection of cancer.
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Mainebiz notes a $1 million grant to support the Maine Tidal Power Initiative, which includes UMaine tidal power research in places such as the Cobscook Bay, Bagaduce River, and the Sheepscot estuary. The Maine Tidal Power Initiative is in its fourth year and has been awarded a total of $4 million in government and nongovernment […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine recognized four people who have had a tremendous impact on the university and its students during the annual Stillwater Society Dinner on Friday Oct. 1. Sen. Susan Collins, who was herself honored by UMaine’s prestigious Stillwater Society in 2009, presented 2010 honoree Prof. […]
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Contact: Renee Kelly, (207) 581-1401 or rwkelly@maine.edu Last May, four UMaine students arrived at the Eureka! Ranch in Cincinnati with high expectations of their impending summer internships at the invention and research think tank founded by UMaine alumnus Doug Hall. The experience turned out to be much more for students Dan Lafayette, Nate Wildes, Brian […]
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Contact: Rosie Seaber, 581-4014 UMaine’s Employee Assistance program is sponsoring a presentation Thursday, Oct. 14, from 12-1 p.m. at 122 Libby Hall on “Retail Therapy: Uncovering Emotional Spending,” with UMaine graduate student Sarah Morehead, master personal financial planner. She’ll discuss discovering the roots of “emotional spending,” acquiring tools for gaining control of spending habits and […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Prof. Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, will provide the Friday morning keynote address at the Maine Career and Technical Education Conference. Dagher’s talk is scheduled for 8:15 a.m. at the Lewiston Regional Technical Center on East Avenue. Dagher, […]
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UMaine critical theorist Carla Billitteri will be a featured speaker at an October 14-16 University of Buffalo symposium honoring poet Charles Olson. Billitteri is a member of the editorial collective which directs the UMaine-based National Poetry Foundation and is the author of “Language and the Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and […]
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Contact Beth Bisson (beth.bisson@maine.edu) ORONO — Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine has created a new Maine Sea Grant Undergraduate Scholarship in Marine Sciences Beginning in the spring semester of the 2010-2011 academic year, Maine Sea Grant will award one scholarship in the amount of $1,000 to one third-year undergraduate student […]
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Thursday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about Wednesday’s Bangor Foreign Policy Forum talk by 1962 UMaine graduate F. William Smullen, director of national security studies at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Smullen served in the U.S. Army for 30 years, including a stint as chief of staff to former Secretary […]
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Amy Fried of the UMaine political science faculty will be a guest on the next edition of Maine Public Broadcasting’s “Maine Watch” television program. The subject will be the Maine gubernatorial race, with a focus on polling information and television commercials. The program airs Thursday Oct. 7 at 8 p.m., Friday Oct. 8 at 8:30 […]
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