Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Two University of Maine Maine Business School students, Violeta Zaneva and Anh Do, have passed the Level I examination of the Chartered Financial Analyst program, considered the “gold standard among investment analysis designations” by The Economist magazine. They took the exam in Boston in December. The pass […]
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Contact: Karl Kreutz, Associate Professor, University of Maine (207) 581-3011;Mark Twickler, Science Coordination Office, University of New Hampshire (603) 862-1991 New Antarctic Ice Core to Provide Clearest Climate Record Yet UMaine researchers involved in long-term paleoclimate study DURHAM, N.H. – After enduring months on the coldest, driest, and windiest continent on Earth, researchers today closed […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Shahla Haeri, director of Boston University’s Women’s Studies Program, will discuss “Mrs. President: Women and Political Leadership in Iran,” her documentary film about six women who were candidates for political office in Iran, on Monday, Jan. 28 in Bangor. The film also features the commentary of two […]
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Contact: Joe Arsenault, 581-3048, John Vetelino, 581-2264, George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine’s College of Engineering is bringing some 30 Bangor middle school girls to campus on Wednesday, Jan. 23, for a pilot project — “Girl’s Night Out” — to let them see that science and engineering aren’t necessarily “nerdy.” “Right now, some of the […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Norihiko Fukuta, a Dept. of Meteorology prfessor emeritus at the University of Utah, will give a Friday, Jan. 25 talk at the University of Maine. Fukuta’s presentation, “Global Warming, Energy Regulation by Earth’s Hydrosphere and the Management with a New Weather Modification Technology.” The lecture, which is […]
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Contact: David Farmer, 287-2531; Dan Cashman, 287-2531 GOVERNOR’S PRESS OFFICE NEWS RELEASE AUGUSTA — Governor Baldacci today received confirmation from the Red Sox that the 2007 World Series trophy will be returning to Maine on January 21. “It’s exciti ng to welcome members of the Boston Red Sox organization back to Maine with the World […]
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Contact: Stephen Gilson, (207) 581-2409; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Imagine software that could simplify complicated language on healthcare or government websites. Two University of Maine faculty members, collaborating with an Orono software development company and the Literacy Volunteers of Bangor, have received a $100,000 research grant to do just that on the state’s […]
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Contact: Ali Abedi (207) 581-2231; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — NASA is on a mission to fly wireless in space one day, and a University of Maine researcher is developing the technology that he believes can help make that happen. Ali Abedi, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is working on a […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO, Me. — Dr. C. Sue McCullough, a seasoned higher education administrator who currently serves as dean of graduate and extended studies at Virginia’s Longwood University, has been named director of the University of Maine’s Hutchinson Center in Belfast, Me. McCullough’s appointment, which is subject to approval at the […]
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Contact: Steve Johnson, 207-764-3361 CARIBOU, Me. –University of Maine Cooperative Extension will host the 2008 Maine Potato Conference on Jan. 23 and 24 at the Caribou Inn and Convention Center. Registration is $7 per day, or $12 for both days. Presentations on insect, disease and weed pests of potatoes are scheduled, as well as sessions […]
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