Contact: Melanie Brooks at (207) 581-1700; Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Witter Farm and the University Bookstore will host a birthday celebration for UMaine’s own racehorse, One Vine Lady, on the Mall outside of Fogler Library at 1 p.m. Wednesday April 25. Lady’s birthday celebration will include a demonstration […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Maine education commissioner Susan Gendron will visit the University of Maine on Thursday, April 19 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellows Program. Gendron will spend the day at UMaine, meeting with students, faculty members and staff members. The Distinguished Maine […]
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Contact: Andrew DeFilipp, Public Relations, Beta Eta Chapter of Beta Theta Pi, (207) 581-4161 ORONO – Beta Theta Pi, the University of Maine’s oldest fraternity, held its 14th annual Sleep-Out on February 23, 2007 to raise money and awareness for Rape Response Services of Bangor. On that frigid Friday night, the 37 brothers of the […]
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Contact: Leigh Stearns, 581-1491; Susan Kaspari, 288-2046 ORONO — The UMaine Sustainability Alliance has organized a slate of Earth Day activities for April 18, which include environmental and conservation discussion groups, the screening of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and by releasing 50 “green bikes.” The day also will feature Maine-produced foods in the Bangor […]
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Contact: Joe Carr, (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Rosanna Warren, Metcalf Professor of Humanities at Boston University, will be the guest speaker at the 2007 University of Maine Phi Beta Kappa annual initiation. The event is scheduled for Monday, April 16, at 3 p.m. in Buchanan Alumni House. Warren, a highly-regarded poet, is this year’s UMaine […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The Peter Hoff presidential portrait will be unveiled on Tuesday, April 17 at 3:30 p.m. in Fogler Library’s Presidents Room. The University of Maine’s 17th president, Hoff served in that role from 1997-2004, the longest UMaine presidential tenure in nearly 40 years. Hoff, whose presidential achievements included […]
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Contact: Mary Skaggs, 581-1349; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine honored 24 of its more than 2,000 student employees on campus April 9 for exceptional professionalism, responsibility and service to their departments and the university. The students were selected after being nominated by supervisors from two dozen offices or departments. During the […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — As the ground thaws, the air warms and the sun shines longer, the Page Farm and Home Museum at UMaine is offering a free lunchtime workshop on spring gardening — providing tips for backyard gardeners. On April 26 at noon, the museum will host a presentation, […]
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Contact: Clarissa Henry (207) 581-2816; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – UMaine Department of Biological Sciences professor Clarissa Henry was recently awarded more than $1.28 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute for Child Health and Human Development to study how tendons develop inside zebrafish embryos. The research could […]
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Contact: Todd Gabe (207) 581-3307; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — Researchers from UMaine’s newly formed School of Economics recently completed the first comprehensive report regarding the economic significance of Maine’s environmental and energy technology sector. Based on a survey completed in 2006 and statistics from government and industry sources, the report outlines a […]
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