Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — State Senate President Beth Edmonds (D-Freeport) will visit the University of Maine on Thursday, Sept. 14 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Edmonds will spend the day at UMaine, meeting with students, faculty members and staff members. The Distinguished […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Gov. John Baldacci and University of Maine President Robert Kennedy will greet the inaugural UMaine Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) class at at Thursday event in Orono. Scheduled for 1:30 p.m. at Buchanan Alumni House, the reception will include comments from both Baldacci and Kennedy. Several […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Drivers looking park on the University of Maine campus can access current information on vacant spaces through a new telephone service. Starting today, a recorded message at 581-INFO will provide information on where motorists should look for available spaces. “We have enough spaces to accommodate commuter student, […]
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Contact: Cathy Billings, Lobster Institute
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Contact: Yifeng Zhu (207) 581-2499; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — UMaine Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Yifeng Zhu’s latest research project promises to increase the speed and efficiency of supercomputers by improving the access speed of hard disks. Disks are the slowest components of supercomputers, and can be a major obstacle to improving […]
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Contact: Mary Jane Perry (207) 581-3321; David Munson (207) 581-3777 Mary Jane Perry, a professor of marine sciences and oceanography at UMaine’s Darling Marine Center and a pioneer in the use of autonomous underwater gliders for remote research, deployed the university’s first such glider into the chilly waters of the Gulf of Maine with the […]
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Contact: Al Bushway (207) 581-1629; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – UMaine’s Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition was recently named the recipient of the Mettler Toledo Food Science and Education Grant. The award consists of more than $60,000 in research equipment and software. Mettler Toledo, a leading supplier of laboratory instruments, chose […]
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Contact: Joe Kelley (207) 581-2162; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – University of Maine Earth science students Elizabet Metcalfe and Laura Brothers spent the summer kayaking along miles of quiet coves and windswept peninsulas in an effort to map the fragile bluffs along the Maine coast. But this was no leisurely sightseeing trek. Working […]
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Contact: David Hart (207) 581-3257; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – When it comes to securing a healthy environment for future generations, David Hart knows that actions speak louder than words. Hart, a long-time environmental scientist with a keen interest in environmental policy, recently took the helm as Director of the Senator George J. […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A record number of new first-year students will begin studies at the University of Maine when fall semester classes get underway on Tuesday, Sept. 5. The Class of 2010 is made up of 1,950 students, which represents a seven percent increase over last year’s incoming class. The […]
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