Contact: Todd Gabe, (207) 581-3307; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — New research by a University of Maine economist shows that a casino being proposed in Oxford County by Evergreen Mountain Enterprises could generate between $89.3 million and $99.8 million a year in slot machine revenue. Todd Gabe, associate professor in the UMaine School of […]
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Contact: Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — High school students from the United Technologies Center in Bangor and their mentors from the University of Maine have teamed up to build a robot that they hope will give its mechanical opponents a run for their money in an upcoming competition in Boston. The public is invited […]
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Contact: Barry Goodell (207) 581-2888; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — Researchers at the University of Maine’s Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center have developed a new composite fabrication process that they hope will revolutionize the industry. Their method involves the use of applied pressure to infuse polymer resins into fabrics, wood, concrete, ceramics and other […]
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Contact: Omar Khan, 581- 1949; George Manlove, 581-3756 Local students on successful business marketing team (Students listed in this news release are from Farmingdale, Farmington, Lebanon, Orrington, Rockland, Wells and Winslow, Maine, and Ankara, Turkey.) ORONO — The UMaine student chapter of the American Marketing Association has been named one of eight semifinalist teams in […]
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Contact: Laurie Hicks, (207) 581-3247/ 561-3354; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine Department of Art is hosting an exhibit of drawings and paintings by Maine artist and American realist John Whalley at the Lord Hall Galleries Feb. 8-March 21. An opening reception for “In Plain Sight, Drawings and Paintings by John Whalley” is scheduled […]
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Contact: Karen Cole, 581-4704; Margaret Nagle, 581-3745 ORONO — An all-student cast, orchestra and chorus will bring to life the timeless themes of love, betrayal and forgiveness in the 18th-century comic opera “The Marriage of Figaro,” Feb. 15-17 and Feb. 22-24 at the University of Maine. The UMaine School of Performing Arts will offer six […]
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Contact: Sarah Joughin, 581-2905; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine’s fourth annual International Dance Festival will be held Saturday, Feb. 23, at Bangor High School’s Peakes Auditorium, showcasing traditional costumes and homeland dances of some of the many international students on campus. Because the event has grown in variety and participation since […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100; Susan Watson, 947-6622, Ext. 5 ORONO — Women operators of small, diversified farms in Maine is the subject of a brown bag lunch lecture at noon, Feb. 12 at the UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum. The guest speaker for the free event is Susan Watson, a small farms coordinator with […]
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Contact: Bob Potts, Alumni Programs & Marketing, (207) 581-1149 / 1 (800) 934-2586 ORONO, Me. — The University of Maine Alumni Association, together with Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, will host a reception and lecture by noted climatologist A. Scott Denning, associate professor at Colorado State University and a 1984 University of Maine graduate. Denning […]
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Contact: Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — A team of international researchers, one of them a University of Maine professor, has discovered in a primitive starlet sea anemone the genes for a biochemical pathway that scientists had thought did not exist in animals. Malcolm Shick, a professor of oceanography and zoology at the UMaine School […]
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