Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100 ORONO — Antique textile care and preservation is the topic of a May 30 brown bag lunch lecture at the UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum. Susan Smith, registrar of the Page Farm and Home Museum and the Hudson Museum will talk about antique textiles and how age, environmental conditions and […]
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Contact: Caragh Fitzgerald, 622-7546 or (800) 287-1481 MONMOUTH — A hands-on biodiesel processing workshop is set for Thursday, June 12 from 9:45 a.m. – 5 p.m. at the University of Maine’s Highmoor Farm in Monmouth. The cost is $6 and advance registration is required. To register, call University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Kennebec County office […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Consumer Testing Center is recruiting volunteers over the age of 18 who consume fresh tomatoes. The information will assist tomato growers evaluate consumer acceptability of fresh tomato varieties. Volunteers will be asked demographic and purchasing questions. They will be asked to evaluate fresh […]
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Contact: Richard Kersbergen, 207-342-5971, richardk@umext.maine.edu ORONO–The Maine Grass Farmers Network, with support form the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, has organized a series of pasture walks designed to help new and experienced farmers learn about profitable grazing in Maine. The first pasture walk […]
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Contact: Angela Fuller (207) 581-2869; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — Angela Fuller, a post-doctoral research assistant and associate graduate faculty member in the University of Maine’s Department of Wildlife Ecology, has been chosen to attend The Wildlife Society’s 2008 Leadership Institute to be held this summer and fall. The Maryland-based institute, established in 2006, […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO, Maine — This week’s Tony Award nominations included University of Maine alumnus Donald Holder for his lighting design work on Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific.” Holder, who graduated in 1980, is no stranger to awards. His lighting design for the Broadway production of Disney’s “The Lion King” won […]
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Contact: Jim McConnon, 581-3165; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Big box retailers, call centers and corporate institutions may get a lot of attention when the subject of Maine’s economy comes up, but state and local business leaders, economists and market researchers know well the importance of small business in Maine. Small businesses, micro-businesses of four […]
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Contact: Heather Pullen, 581-2443 ORONO — Two teacher-consultants for the Maine Writing Project at the University of Maine recently represented the program at the spring meeting of the National Writing Project in Washington, D.C. last month. Ken Martin, distance learning director at the Washington County Consortium for School Improvement at the University of Maine, Machias, […]
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Contact: Sheila Pendse, 581-1427; Philip Dunn, 581-2326; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — After a hiring surge in the 1960s, many employees in the state’s transportation industry are now starting to retire, creating a growing need for new blood in a field many young people may overlook. In a concerted effort to make young people aware […]
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Contact: Dara McIntire, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, 581-4133 ORONO — The Maine Campus Compact, a coalition of 18 post-secondary education campuses in Maine, will hold a Curriculum Development Institute on problem-based service-learning June 2-3 at the University of Maine to assist teachers, instructors and professors in engaging students in service-learning projects. Service-learning combines classroom […]
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