Contact: Carolyn Ball, 581-4142 AUGUSTA — The University of Maine’s Department of Public Administration is offering three courses for the spring semester in the Augusta area for men and women with jobs, families or other obligations preventing them from traveling to the Orono campus. Prospective students interested in learning more about these graduate-level classes are […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Thomas Remington, a Harvard University visiting research scholar and Emory University political science professor, will visit the University of Maine for a Monday Dec. 8 lecture and panel discussion on contemporary Russian political affairs. The event is scheduled for 3-4:30 p.m. in 100 Donald P. Corbett Business […]
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Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, 581-1904George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The annual Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstration is scheduled at the University of Maine Dec. 13, offering the public a special opportunity to acquire Native American artforms from members of Maine’s four tribes, as well as learn about Maine Indian history and culture through demonstrations of […]
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Contact: Gabriella D’Italia, (207) 234-2542 Note: A high-resolution image that represents D’Italia’s work is available from Kristen Andresen at 581-3742 or kristen.andresen@umit.maine.edu. ORONO — Gabriella D’Italia, a student in UMaine’s Intermedia master of fine arts program, has been selected to participate in Quilt National 2009. The juried, biennial exhibition is dedicated to promoting the contemporary […]
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Contact: Sandra Horne, 581-1236 ORONO – Elizabeth DePoy, professor of social work and coordinator of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies at the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, recently was honored with the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Disability Section of the American Public Health Association. The award is presented to a […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — State Rep. Joshua Tardy (R-Newport) will visit the University of Maine on Friday, Dec. 5 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Tardy, who is the House Republican Leader, will spend the day at UMaine, meeting with students, faculty members […]
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Contact: Daniel Flannery, danieljflannery@gmail.com ORONO– Daniel Flannery, a student in the University of Maine’s Intermedia master of fine arts program, has won two Children’s Music Web Awards. Flannery, an Oceanside, N.J., native, moved to Maine to create children’s media with his brother, Mike, who runs the 32 Central recording studio in Bangor. Daniel Flannery has […]
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Contact: Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777; John Hwalek, (207) 581-2302 Picture of UMaine’s car is avaiable upon request — corrections include quote attribution and team leaders. ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine placed 10th out of 29 universities that competed in last weekend’s national Chem-E-Car competition in Philadelphia, according to the American Institute of Chemical […]
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Contact: Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777; William Livingston, (207) 581-2990 ORONO, Maine — A University of Maine professor is leading an effort to use Maine’s forests to help teach science and math to local high school students. William Livingston, UMaine professor of forest resources, received a $77,352 one-year grant from the Maine Department of Education as […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Ivan Fernandez, a University of Maine professor of soil science and cooperating professor of forest resources, has been selected as the 2008 Maine Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). […]
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