Contact: Michael Hermann, 581-4228; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine Canadian-American Center cartographers have won a top award in the nation’s premier map design competition for their recently published Ice Age trail map of Maine’s Downeast area. The American Congress on Surveying & Mapping (ACSM) gave its Best of Category award in the contest’s Recreational/Travel […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Sen. Susan Collins, U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud and Maj. Gen. William Libby, Maine’s adjutant general, are scheduled to be at the University of Maine’s Advanced Engineered Wood Composites (AEWC) Center on Thursday, Feb. 22, for a demonstration of a new product designed to protect U.S. soldiers in […]
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Contact: Frank S. Wertheim, 207-324-2814 AUBURN, Me.–University of Maine Cooperative Extension has scheduled the 14th annual Maine Garden Day on Saturday, April 14 at Central Maine Community College in Auburn. The event will feature more than 30 dynamic workshops from renowned horticulturists. In addition, there will be educational displays and a gardening trade show. Check-in […]
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Contact: Kathleen March, 581-2088 Kathleen March, professor of Spanish, has been named a Senior Fulbright Specialist, a designation that places her on a list of specialists selected to receive financial assistance for special teaching projects, typically in a foreign country. The award requires a rigorous application and selection process. Though the five-year designation period does […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — “Subversive Stitches: the embroidered war between Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I” is the subject of a special lunch-time lecture Feb. 22 at the Page Farm and home Museum at the University of Maine. Michele Goldman, sociologist and needleworker, will present the talk. The public […]
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Contact: Charlotte Stratton, New England Board of Higher Education (617) 357-9620 ext 125 BOSTON– Both the University of Maine’s Frederick HutchinsonCenter and Onward Program have won 2007 New England HigherEducation Excellence Awards, the honors bestowed annually by theinterstate agency, the New England Board of Higher Education(NEBHE). Commenting on the honorees, NEBHE President and CEO Evan […]
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Contact: Laura Wilson, 207-581-2971 ELLSWORTH, Me. — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer its Watershed Stewards program Ellsworth-area residents who want to keep pollution out of their water supply. The training begins March 19, Monday evenings from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Hancock County UMaine Extension office on Boggy Brook Road. UMaine Extension […]
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Contact: Philip Dunn Jr., 581-2326; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Philip Dunn Jr., professor of construction management in the UMaine School of Engineering Technology, has received the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2006 Citizen Engineer Award for Region 1, which includes New England. The national award is one of nine presented nationally to a member […]
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Contact: Steven Colburn, 581-1982; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — University of Maine Business School accounting students under the supervision of accounting professor Steven Colburn are offering free income tax assistance to the public on Mondays and Thursdays. While the UMaine Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) is designed for low- to moderate-income taxpayers, people with […]
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Contact: Richard Kersbergen, (207) 342-5971; Jen O’Leary (207) 581-3106 ORONO, Maine–A team headed by Rick Kersbergen, University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor, has received the Northeast Extension Directors’ Award of Excellence 2006 for “Building an Organic Dairy Research and Extension Program.” The award was presented during a recognition dinner last month in Washington, DC. Kersbergen […]
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