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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Contact: Amy Blackstone, 581-2392; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine assistant professor of sociology Amy Blackstone has received the Outstanding Research Proposal from a Feminist Perspective Award from the Feminism and Family Studies Section of the National Council on Family Relations. The research proposal is a study and survey of child-free adults and their decisions […]
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Contact: Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — Robert Rice, a professor of wood science in the University of Maine’s School of Forest Resources, was recently elected a 2008 fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science. A UMaine faculty member for 17 years, Rice has published more than 60 research papers on the physics of […]
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Contact: Al Bushway, 581-1629; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — First, the Federal Food and Drug Administration suspected raw tomatoes. Then it added jalapeno peppers, cilantro and serrano peppers — the raw ingredients for salsa — to the list of possible sources of the current salmonella food poisoning outbreaks in 41 states, including Maine. More than […]
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Contact: Prof. Brian Robinson (581-2174) or Prof. Lisa Neuman (581-4489) MACHIAS — The University of Maine’s annual archaeological field school is underway this summer on Machias Bay in eastern Maine. The field school offers nine UMaine students and a small group of volunteers a month- long intensive field work experience focusing on the excavation of […]
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Contact: Bill Murphy, 581-4124; Charlie Scontras, (207) 799-3469; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Fogler Library recently received a dozen containers with hundreds of historic articles, correspondence and ledgers from Maine’s first carpenters unions, dating back to 1864. Called “jewels for Maine historians” by Charles Scontras, historian, author and research associate with […]
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Contact: Diane Linscott, 326-4803 George Manlove, 581-3856 Editors’ note: The following cities or towns are mentioned in this news release: Penobscot, Hanover, Orono, Winslow & Southwest Harbor, Maine, and Portsmouth and Exeter, N.H. ORONO — Professional jazz singer, recording artist and University of Maine alum Diane Linscott has established a scholarship fund for former UMaine […]
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Contact: Dana Morse at (207) 563-3146, a member of the UMaine Marine Extension Team, a collaboration of Maine Sea Grant and Cooperative Extension WALPOLE — As anyone who has tended plants will tell you, it can be a lot of work to keep your crop healthy and thriving. You need a lot of light, the […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Note: a photo of Douglas Gardner is available upon request. ORONO — Douglas Gardner, University of Maine professor of Wood Science and Technology, and a member of the UMaine Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center’s research team, has been named as one of the co-recipients of the 2008 Forest Products […]
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