Contact: Pauleena MacDougall, 581-1848; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – First-person accounts of the lives of a coastal crab-picker, a logger, a Northern Maine bateau builder and newly arrived Hispanics in the Bangor area are a few of the colorful Maine residents interviewed for “Story Bank,” an ongoing project by the Maine Folklife Center at UMaine […]
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Contact: Sandra Horne, 581-1236; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – The UMaine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies (CCIDS) is partnering with the Maine Commission for Community Service in a year-long collaboration designed to facilitate the recruitment and participation of people with disabilities as community service volunteers. The endeavor, “Project Ready to ServeMaine,” is made […]
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Contact: Douglas G. Babkirk, (207) 712-1414 Portage, ME—University of Maine Cooperative Extension has extended its deadline to May 29 for accepting applications for its first Courage to Teach® series. The weekend retreat workshops are scheduled for five weekends at Hewes Brook Lodge in Portage, beginnin Oct. 23. The series, which will bring continuing education credits […]
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Contact: Heather Pullen at (207) 581-2443 ORONO, Me. – Young writers can sharpen their skills and express their creativity during the University of Maine’s annual Young Authors’ Camps scheduled for seven sites is summer. Sponsored by the Maine Writing Project, the half-day camps will be held in Orono, Benton, Newport, Brunswick, Topsham, Portland and Bar […]
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Contact: Scott Anchors, (207) 581-1927; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 Photo available upon request ORONO — Maine Business School faculty member Scott Anchors has been selected as the 2009 recipient of a prestigious international educational achievement award in recognition of his work and research with the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. Anchors, a lecturer in management at […]
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Contact: Catherine Schmitt (207) 581-1434; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 Critics have called her work “enchanting,” “a rare treasure,” and “a superb effort to make natural science interesting, entertaining, and educational.” They all appear to have gotten it right because University of Maine Sea Grant Communications Coordinator Catherine Schmitt recently received a silver award for her […]
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Contact: Kevin Simon (207) 581-2618; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – Three University of Maine professors, in collaboration with colleagues at Virginia Tech, recently received nearly $800,000 to study the impact that pollution from excess nitrogen is having on the environment. “Nitrogen in general is a huge problem,” says Kevin Simon, UMaine assistant professor […]
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Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Benjamin Gordon Freedman of Caribou has been awarded a 2009-2010 graduate fellowship from Tau Beta Pi, the world’s largest engineering honor society. Freedman, the son of Dale Gordon of Caribou and Jon Freedman of Bangor, will pursue a doctoral program in bioprocess engineering at Virginia Tech, focusing on the […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 More information about UMaine commencement, including the text of the commencement speech and details about the honorary degree recipients, the valedictorian and the salutatorian, is online. ORONO — Encouraging graduates to embrace America’s entrepreneurial spirit and to approach their careers with passion and enthusiasm, the head of the U.S. […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s 207th commencement is scheduled for Saturday May 9, inside at Alfond Arena. As always, the event consists of two ceremonies, one at 10 a.m. and one at 2:30 p.m. Each will last approximately 2 hours. Northbound I-95 traffic and traffic between the Interstate […]
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