Contact: Cathy Billings, Lobster Institute, 207-581-2751, cathy_billings@umit.maine.eduDianne Ward, Kenniston Hill Inn B&B, 207-633-2159, innkeeper@kennistonhillinn.com ORONO, Maine — After a five-year hiatus, Lobster College is back. Registrations are now being accepted for this most unique learning vacation, organized by the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine and hosted this year by the Kenniston Hill Inn […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3581 Note: a photo of Dean Servello is available upon request. ORONO — Frederick Servello has been named associate dean for research in the University of Maine College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture and associate director of the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station. In these roles, Servello will […]
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Contact: John Thompson, 581-1030; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine assistant physics professor John R. Thompson has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach and conduct research on the learning and teaching of physics — also known as physics education research — at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) in Ireland during the 2008-2009 academic […]
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Contact: Sandra Horne, (207) 581-1236 ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies is hosting a three-hour workshop on the DIR/Floortime approach for understanding and treating children challenged by autism spectrum and related disorders on Saturday, July 26, from 1-4 p.m. The workshop, “An Introduction to DIR/Floortime,” is being […]
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Contact: Mary Cathcart at (207) 866-3054; Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — When your represent the ratio of women to men who have served in the U.S. Congress as a pie chart, it looks less like pie and more like a cheese wheel with a sliver missing. Between 1796 and 2001, 206 women have […]
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Contact: Carolyn Ball, (207) 581-4142 ORONO — The University of Maine is again offering graduate-level Masters in Public Administration courses in Augusta in September for working professionals and recent college graduates working or interested in working in government or non-profit fields. The three courses are: City & Regional Planning; Accountability in Public Policy & Administration; […]
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Contact: Shannon Risk, 845-661-9130; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine Ph.D. candidate Shannon Risk has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship to study cultural and intellectual history in Canada for the 2008-2009 academic year. Researching at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Risk will assess the women’s suffrage movements in New Brunswick and Maine. […]
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Contact: Carol Kim, (207) 581-2803 ORONO University of Maine microbiologist Carol H. Kim has been named the director of UMaine’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS). Kim, an associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, has expertise in molecular virology and host response to infectious disease. In her current research, […]
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Contact: Annette Brickley (207) 990-2900 ext. 2; Deirdre Byrne (207) 581-4324; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — The University of Maine and the Challenger Learning Center of Bangor have launched a professional development program designed to help the state’s middle and high school educators learn how to use climate change as novel way to teach […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100 ORONO — More than 115 farms throughout Maine — including the UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum — will open their doors to the public as Maine celebrates Open Farm Day on Sunday, July 20. Activities at the Orono farm and home museum, located in the last original agricultural building on […]
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