Contact: Tai Cheng, 581-3155 George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine is offering a unique travel-study course this spring on China, a 6,000-year-old country of 1.3 billion people that has transformed itself in less than 30 years from a third world communist nation to an increasingly capitalistic superpower. The course, available to current […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A group of 75 Maine legislators will visit the University of Maine on Wednesday, Jan. 10. Their visit is part of a Maine Development Foundation bus tour highlighting important elements of Maine’s economy and culture. The group includes senators and House members from all over Maine. It […]
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Contact: Howard Cody, 581-1868; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — How do modern European politics, economics, currencies, cultures, religions and languages affect Americans? How is the development of the European Union influencing the evolution of Europe, and — more importantly — why should the United States care? Those questions surround some of the issues to be […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine graduate student Megan Blackmore is looking for volunteers for a research project. A master’s student in Food Science and Human Nutrition, Blackmore is looking into the effects of different types of breakfast cereal on appetite. Participants must be between the ages of 20 and […]
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Contact: Jon Kenerson, jon.kenerson@umit.maine.eduGeorge Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Eight students have been inducted into the honor society Chi Epsilon in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maine. Membership in Chi Epsilon is a mark of distinction placed on undergraduates who have upheld the honor of the department through high scholastic […]
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Contact: Michael Howard, 581-3861George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine philosophy professor Michael Howard recently won first prize in an essay contest conducted by Basic Income Studies, a new international academic journal that focuses on basic income issues and universal welfare policies. Howard received the award at the Eleventh Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network […]
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Contact: Amos E. Orcutt, (207) 581-5100 or (800) 982-8503 ORONO — The University of Maine Foundation has accepted the largest one-time gift ever donated to the University of Maine by a private individual or family, a $4.2 million personal residence at 200 Woodville Road in Falmouth. Eric and Peggy Cianchette, the home’s previous owners, finalized […]
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Contact: Richard Brzozowski, 207-780-4205, rbrz@umext.maine.edu AUGUSTA –University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Alternative Poultry Association (MAPA) will sponsor an afternoon of practical training for poultry producers, 12:30 – 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 10 at the Augusta Civic Center. The training is part of the 2007 Maine Agricultural Trades Show (www.getrealmaine.com), scheduled for […]
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Contact: Richard Brzozowski, 207-780-4207, rbrz@umext.maine.edu AUGUSTA, Me. — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer an informational session for 4-H Leaders on establishing a Maine poultry team for the 2007 Avian Bowl competition in Louisville, Ky.; the session will feature poultry specialist Jacqueline Jacobs of University of Minnesota Cooperative Extension. This meeting will be Tuesday […]
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Contact: Major James C. Moreno, enrollment officer, University of Maine Army ROTC, Room 112, Armory, 581-1125 ORONO — The Black Bear Battalion will hold its cadet commissioning ceremony Saturday, Dec. 23 for two army ROTC cadets at UMaine. Candyce Jacobson of Winterport and Nicolas Phillips of Stuttgart, Germany, will be commissioned into the United States […]
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