Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine will host a Thursday, Jan. 10 (4:30 p.m.) event announcing a major gift in support of Campaign Maine, the university’s six-year, $150 million comprehensive fundraising campaign. A prominent Bangor-area couple, well-known in the business community, has made the gift, which will provide support […]
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Contact: Contact: Amos Orcutt, University of Maine Foundation President/CEO, 207 581-5100 ORONO — Amos Orcutt, president/CEO of the University of Maine Foundation, has announced the appointment of Daniel B. Williams as planned giving officer. Williams, who earned both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from UMaine, returns to his alma mater having accumulated a […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 BELFAST — A $200,000 Unity Foundation challenge grant will provide valuable support for the University of Maine’s planned Hutchinson Center expansion. The university announced in August a campaign to raise $2 million in private funds to help create a 15,000 square foot addition at the Belfast facility. The new […]
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Contact: Michael D. Mason (207) 581-2344; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777; Bob Caswell (207) 780-4200 ORONO — Now that NASA has cleared them for takeoff, student scientists from the University of Maine and the University of Southern Maine are eagerly preparing for the flight of their lives. And while the four students won’t actually be going […]
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Contact: Marlene Charron, (207) 581-4095, George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine is accepting registrations for a unique, interdisciplinary course designed around the annual Camden Conference in February, “Religion as a Force in World Affairs.” Students do not have to be admitted at the University of Maine to enroll in the course. The […]
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Contact: Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, 581-3124 ORONO — Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, professor of clinical nutrition at UMaine, recently was elected treasurer of the International Society of Trace Element Research in the Human (ISTERH) at the society’s recent joint international conference in Crete, Greece. She will serve until 2010. Klimis-Zacas, a faculty member in the Department of Food Science […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The Maine State Society of Washington, D.C. has given retired University of Maine professor Harold Borns its 2007 “Big ‘M’ Award,” recognizing Borns’ “accomplishments and achievements in (his) profession, (and) for service to Maine and its citizens.” Borns, who retired from the UMaine faculty in 2005 after […]
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Contact: Joyce Kleffner, 207-667-8212 DOVER-FOXCROFT, Me. — Jane Conroy, a faculty member in the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Piscataquis County office, has received a national award. The National Extension Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (NEAFCS) gave Conroy its Continued Excellence Award at a fall conference in St. Paul, Minn. The organization recognized Conroy […]
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Contact: Robert Steneck (207) 549-3062, cell (207) 557-4505Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — A rise in the temperature and acidity of the oceans that threatens the existence of the world’s coral reef ecosystems could also have troubling implications for marine life and fishing industries as far away as Maine, a University of Maine researcher says. […]
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Contact: Perry (NAACP) at 548-2081; Joe Carr (UMaine) at 581-3571 ORONO — A keynote address by University of Maine philosophy professor Douglas Allen will highlight a joint Greater Bangor Area NAACP/University of Maine Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast celebration on Monday, January 21, 2008. The 8:30-10:30 a.m. event is scheduled for UMaine’s Buchanan Alumni House, […]
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