Contact: Jill Coffren, state coordinator, Cooperative Extension 4H Japanese exchange program, 207-645-3248 MAINE FAMILIES CAN HOST A JAPANESE EXCHANGE STUDENT ORONO, Maine — If the Japanese boys and girls who come to Maine every year could be rolled into one person, they might be something like the fictional Kenta from Chita City. He would be […]
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Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO– Roberto Lopez-Anido, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maine, has received a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and do research at Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Chile during the 2005-2006 academic year. He is among about 800 U.S. […]
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Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO, Maine — Using laptop computers and the Internet, seventh grade students from SAD 47 in Oakland will study the climate with the help of a University of Maine research expedition in southern Chile. As part of an Earth science project, the students will begin by visiting […]
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Contact: Emmanuel Boss, School of Marine Sciences, 207-581-4378, emmanuel.boss@maine.edu ; Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777, houtman@maine.edu ORONO – Tiny marine plants known as phytoplankton provide clues to the health of the oceans and the state of the climate, but for half a century, scientists have struggled to estimate changes in the size and […]
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Contact: MaJo Keleshian, (207) 581-3267, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — How Hollywood shapes visions of reality and concerns about technology’s waste materials are themes of new exhibits in mixed media and sculpture by UMaine artist Sam Van Aken and sculptor Wally Warren at the University of Maine Department of Art’s Carnegie Galleries The show […]
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Contact: Richard Brzozowski, Extension Educator, Cumberland County, 1-800-287-1471 (within Maine) ORONO– Agriculture is key to the state’s economy as well as to communities and farm families. The University of Maine Cooperative Extension will provide a peak at the future of Maine agriculture in a conference on March 10 in Orono. Speakers will include Mark Lapping, […]
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Contact: Baycka Voronietsky, (207) 581-1257, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — After five decades of performing, pianist Baycka Voronietsky, associate professor of music, has a love-hate relationship with the stage. She lives for the music, but she confides that she is privately uncomfortable with the silent formality of the classical concert stage — an uneasiness […]
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Contact: Tom Mikotowicz, (207) 581-1965, George Manlove (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine School of Performing Arts’ Music and Theater Departments are collaborating to bring the sensational vaudevillian razzle-dazzle musical “Chicago” to Hauck Auditorium this month. A cast of 19 characters with an equal number of stage hands and technicians have been at work since […]
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Contact: Carolyn Morwick, 617.357.9620, ext. 118 BOSTON’The University of Maine’s GK-12 Teaching Fellows Program, along with the state of Maine’s Parents as Scholar’s Program, are among winners of the 2005 New England Higher Education Excellence Awards announced today by the New England Board of Higher Education. Senator Olympia J. Snowe lauded both awardees, noting, “Maine’s […]
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Contact: Andrew Eldridge, (207) 581-8590; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Students in a UMaine film class are holding an open casting call Feb. 9 and Feb. 16 for their next short movie. Auditions both Wednesdays will be from 6-9 p.m. on the second floor of Alumni Hall on the Orono campus. “The Stream” is […]
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