Contact: Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777; Gordon Hamilton, 581-3446 ORONO, Maine – Using nearly 50 years of data, University of Maine researchers have determined that subglacial floods in East Antarctica caused a rapid and short-lived acceleration of a major outlet glacier. Leigh Stearns and Gordon Hamilton of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, along with Benjamin Smith of […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A group of 16 University of Maine Business School students is conducting a study of Maine residents’ attitudes toward tourism. The research involves a brief online survey. The students are hoping residents across Maine will visit http://umainetourismsurvey.com to to provide their input. The results of the study […]
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Contact: Jesse Moriarity, 581-1427George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — How many ways can you send a message or create a new value-added product with a plastic water bottle? That’s precisely what more than a dozen student teams at the University of Maine will ponder over the next few days as part of the 2008 Global Entrepreneurship […]
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The MaineCard Online Office is now in service with many of the same functions and services offered by on-campus MaineCard kiosks and the Student Service Center in the Memorial Union. Students, parents, guardians and all UMaine employees can now add funds to their Black Bear Bucks accounts from the comfort of their own computers, according […]
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Contact: Beth Calder, 207-581-2791 ORONO, Me.–Some of our traditional holiday meal practices pose potential food-safety threats, according to University of Maine Cooperative Extension experts. For example, consumers should know that turkey should never be thawed on the counter, stuffing a turkey is not recommended, and one should not eat food that has been left sitting […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine Symphonic Band has been invited by the Bangor High School Band to perform a joint concert at the school’s Peakes Auditorium. The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday Dec. 4, 2008. The Bangor High School Band, under the direction of […]
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Contact: Gretchen Gfeller, 207-581-1696 ORONO — Visitors can already browse digital pages from every University of Maine Prism Yearbook from 1894 to 1997, but volunteers are now entering data that will make the UMaine Yearbooks Online website searchable by name and year of senior class. After the first phase of scanning and editing of images was […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine police, working with the Maine State Police’s Computer Crimes Task Force, the Lewiston Police Department and the U.S. Secret Service, have arrested James Wieland, 26, of Lewiston on charges related to privacy invasion. Police arrested Wieland late Wednesday in Lewiston, charging him with Aggravated […]
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Contact: Doug Nangle, (207) 581-2045 (after Nov. 20); George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — A University of Maine psychology professor is part of a delegation of 20 American psychologists currently in China exploring ways to help the world’s largest country with a major healthcare problem: mental illness and insufficient resources to deal with it. […]
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Contact: Alan Davenport, 581-1341 ORONO — Like the Native Americans at the first Thanksgiving feast, some people today may think they have very strange guests coming to dinner when they see lights in the November sky. Two brilliant lights will grace the southwest sky after sunset this month, and they are moving like planets should […]
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