Contact: Joe Carr, (207) 581-3571 BANGOR, Maine — George Kinghorn has accepted the position of director of the University of Maine Museum of Art, effective June 9. Kinghorn comes to UMaine from Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville (Fla.), where he most recently served as deputy director and chief curator. He was instrumental in opening MOCA […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at 581-3571 BANGOR — The University of Maine Museum of Art will be closed for the day on Memorial Day Monday, May 26. The museum, located on Harlow St. in downtown Bangor, will re-open after Memorial Day on Tuesday, May 27 at 9 a.m. Thanks to a generous gift from Machias Savings […]
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Contact: David Hiebeler at (207) 581-3924; Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO, Maine — David Hiebeler, an assistant professor in the University of Maine Department of Mathematics and Statistics, has received the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious honor for promising young scholar-researchers: the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant. The $400,000 award, which Hiebeler will […]
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Contact: Dennis Cox, 581-1245 or 478-5684; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — More than 50 members of UMaine’s University Singers and a half dozen accompanying musicians are packing for a 10-day concert tour in Italy and Sicily May 16-26. The students and accompanists have an itinerary of five concerts with time in between for sight-seeing, says […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — In a lively commencement address, master inventor and renowned entrepreneur Doug Hall encouraged the 1,860 members of the University of Maine Class of 2008 “to create and take action on ideas for a better world,” and to do a better job than the Baby Boomer generation of […]
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Contact: Will Manion (207) 581-2184; Mathew Kinney (207) 316-6323; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — For the third year in a row, a team of University of Maine students is headed to the prestigious American Society of Civil Engineers National Concrete Canoe Competition to be held in Montreal June 19-21. The UMaine engineering team was […]
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Contact: Jonathan Rubin, 581-3152 ORONO — UMaine economist Jonathan Rubin has been selected for a leadership position in a national research committee that provides scientific and technological expertise to the worldwide transportation industry. Rubin, a professor at the Margaret Chase Smith Center and UMaine School of Economics, will chair the Committee on Transportation Energy of […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Five University of Maine professors, each with international reputations in their academic disciplines and many years of distinguished service to UMaine and its students, were announced this afternoon as the winners of UMaine’s annual top faculty awards. The awards are part of the annual Academic Honors Convocation, […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Fifteen years after the University of Maine’s Donald P. Corbett Business Building opened, a portrait of the successful poultry farmer who graduated in 1934 will be unveiled at 10 a.m. Friday, May 9, in the Dean’s Office Suite in Room 211. The portrait was presented to the […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Winners of the University of Maine’s 2008 employee achievement awards represent the university’s Army ROTC program, Dept. of Facilities Management, Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center and Graduate School. Two winners were announced recently by the Classified Employee Advisory Council and two by the Professional Employee Advisory Council. […]
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