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Skowhegan Native Outstanding Grad in UMaine College

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571, joe.carr@umit.maine.edu ORONO — Emily Yearwood of Skowhegan, Maine, has been named the Outstanding Graduating Student in the University of Maine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She will graduate May 8 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. Yearwood majored in sociology with a minor in psychology. She transferred to […]

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Patten Native Outstanding Graduate in UMaine College

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571, joe.carr@umit.maine.edu ORONO — Owen McCarthy of Patten, Maine, was named the Outstanding Graduating Student in the University of Maine College of Engineering. He will graduate May 8 with a bachelor’s degree in biological engineering. McCarthy, the 2006 valedictorian of Katahdin High School, came to UMaine as a Top Scholar. […]

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UMaine Senior National Continuing Education Student of the Year

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571, joe.carr@umit.maine.edu ORONO — University of Maine senior Lauren Sterling of Waterville, Maine, has been named the 2010 National Continuing Education Student of the Year by the University Continuing Education Association. Last fall, she was selected as the Outstanding Continuing Education Student from New England. Sterling, who majored in university […]

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UMaine President Kennedy to Address Academic Reorganization Tuesday May 4

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 joe.carr@umit.maine.edu ORONO — University of Maine President Robert Kennedy has scheduled a Tuesday May 4 presentation to announce his decisions relative to academic program reorganization.  His talk is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts. It will also be streamed online at http://www.umaine.edu. Kennedy created […]

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Ballistic Tent Panel Technology Patented, Commercialization Partner Licensed

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Innovative and newly-patented University of Maine composites materials technology is now under commercial development through a licensing agreement with a southern Maine manufacturing company. Modular Ballistic Protection System (MBPS) technology, which was conceptualized, fabricated and tested at UMaine’s AEWC: Advanced Structures and Composites Center, provide protection for […]

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UMaine Fraternity Found Responsible for Hazing in April 17 Initiation Activity

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Following a week-long review, the University of Maine’s Division of Student Affairs has found the university’s Sigma Chi fraternity chapter to be in violation of UMaine’s hazing policies. These findings relate to a Saturday April 17 incident during which a UMaine student participating in a fraternity initiation […]

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Student Wins Video Competition, $10,000 International Reporting Opportunity

Contact: Samantha Danis, 286-6013, or George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Fourth-year UMaine broadcast journalism major Samantha Danis of Biddeford has been voted as one of five first-place prize winners in the national YouTube and Pulitzer Center “Project: Report” video competition. She has won a $10,000 grant for an international reporting assignment for the Pulitzer Center […]

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University of Maine Featured in the Princeton Review and U.S. Green Building Council in Just-Published “Guide to 286 Green Colleges”

Joe Carr, University of Maine (207) 581-3571, joe.carr@umit.maine.edu Leah Pennino, The Princeton Review (508) 663-5133, lpennino@review.com Free Guidebook Profiles the Nation’s Most Environmentally Responsible Colleges and Universities ORONO — The University of Maine is one of the country’s most environmentally responsible colleges according to The Princeton Review (www.PrincetonReview.com).  The nationally known education services company selected […]

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UMaine’s 2010 Geddes Simpson Lecture April 28

Judy Round, 581-5104 round@maine.edu Photo available upon request ORONO – The Geddes W. Simpson Lecture Committee has selected Michelle Murphy, associate professor of history and the Institute of Women Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto, to give the 2010 Geddes W. Simpson Distinguished Lecture. The lecture is scheduled for Maine Day, Wednesday, […]

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