Contact: Amos Orcutt, University of Maine Foundation, (207) 581-5100 ORONO — On June 9, the University of Maine Foundation celebrated its 75th anniversary with a dinner at the Wells Conference Center on the Orono campus. More than 250 guests attended the special event, held exactly 75 years after the Foundation’s date of incorporation. At that […]
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Contact: Michaele Bailey, (207) 581-3872 ORONO, Me.—4-H, the youth development program of Universityof Maine Cooperative Extension, will hold a Take-A-Chance silent auction on June 27 at Maine 4-H Days at the Windsor Fairgrounds. The auction opens at 5 p.m., with the drawing beginning at 7 p.m. Tickets for the auction will be 10 for $2.50, […]
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Contact: Kathryn Hopkins, (207) 474-9622 ORONO, Me.—University of Maine Cooperative Extension has published “How to Do a Home Energy Evaluation,” part of “Maine Home Energy,” a new series of educational bulletins on home energy use. “How to Do a Home Energy Evaluation” includes a checklist to help homeowners determine how to increase energy efficiency and […]
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Contact: Habib Dagher, (207) 581-2123; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 The University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center received an Academic Pioneer Award Thursday for its contribution to the field of ocean energy. Habib Dagher, the center’s director, was on hand to accept the award at the sixth annual EnergyOcean Conference at the Samoset […]
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Contact: Jan Kristo, 866-3318; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — With Maine schools letting out for the summer, Jan Kristo, author and UMaine professor of literacy education, says keeping reading on children’s radar will help them maintain and strengthen the gains made in reading over the school year. Summer vacation also provides great opportunities to help […]
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Contact: Margo Lukens, 581-1401; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation will host a 5-hour, national videoconference Thursday, June 18, dedicated to reflecting upon and encouraging Native American theater and playwriting. The conference, free and open to the public, will originate from the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, […]
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Contact: Phillip Silver, 581- 1783; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – The University of Maine’s new Judaic Studies curriculum is being strengthened by two new classes this summer, two more in the 2009-2010 academic year, and a speaker and film series, all the result of a gift to the university. Judaic studies at UMaine has been […]
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Contact: Sharon Barker, 581-1501 ORONO — Sharon Barker, director of the UMaine Women’s Resource Center, recently received the American Association of University Women’s 2009 Achievement Citation Award for Maine. Criteria for the award includes a requirement that a recipient be a woman in Maine who has made a distinctive contribution in an AAUW field of […]
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Contact: Karen Hawkes at (207) 581-2443 ORONO -– Four more communities are now recognized as official Sports Done Right school communities, joining eight other school districts and six parks and recreation departments that already share this distinction. Cape Elizabeth School Department, Cape Elizabeth Community Services, Scarborough School Department, Scarborough Community Services, and the Auburn School Department […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A University of Maine student has been diagnosed with H1N1 virus. The student lives off campus, in Penobscot County. Except to seek medical treatment at Cutler Health Center this week, the student has not been on campus since the end of the spring semester, approximately five weeks […]
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