Contact: Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Helen Miltiades, a professor in the Dept. of Social Work and Gerontology at Shippensburg University, is working at the University of Maine for the next several weeks as the university’s first BAC/Toyota Visiting Geriatric Scholar. Her work at UMaine is funded by a grant, announced on […]
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Contact: Media Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Basic reading and writing are no longer sufficient for today’s high school students who must demonstrate strong literacy and critical thinking skills to meet performance-based standards in content areas and to succeed at work and participate in a democratic society. Yet, few content area […]
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Contact: Contact: Kay Hyatt at 207-581-2761 ORONO– Making learning meaningful in the era of standards and laptops is the theme of the 19th annual Middle Level Education Institute taking place July 6-11 at the University of Maine. More than 200 educators from middle schools throughout Maine will spend the week learning about the latest educational […]
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Contact: Contact: Adrienne White, food science and human nutrition, 207-581-3134; Nellie Hedstrom, Cooperative Extension, 207-581-3110 ORONO, Maine — University of Maine nutritionists are looking for young adults, ages 18 to 24, to participate in a year-long study of eating habits. If they qualify, participants will receive $40 in compensation for their help in a project […]
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Contact: Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO, Maine — A team of students in the University of Maine Dept. of Mechanical Engineering has built a one-person submarine and will test it in the Wallace Pool at UMaine from 1:30 to 3 p.m. June 27. Starting at 12:30 p.m. in Crosby Lab on […]
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Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO, Me. — Evelyn Silver, director of Equal Opportunity at the University of Maine, has been named Associate Vice President for Personnel and Academic Services at UMaine. The appointment, announced today by UMaine Executive Vice President and Provost Robert Kennedy, was approved by the University of Maine […]
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Contact: Media contact: Ronald Davis, Professor of Biology, 207-866-4785 (home), 207-659-6585 (cell); Nick Houtman, Dept, of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO– Walking in a peat bog usually means picking one’s way gingerly across a soggy, spongy landscape. Now, with the opening of the Orono Bog Boardwalk on Monday, June 23, families and people in wheelchairs can […]
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Contact: Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Some of the country’s most notable adult reading researchers will address participants at the Maine Adult Education Summer Institute, scheduled for June 23-25 at the University of Maine. Leaders such as Sondra Stein, director of the Equipped for the Future adult learning standards development project […]
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Contact: Media contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO, Maine — United States Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman has presented the department’s most prestigious award to Darrell Donahue of Old Town, a University of Maine engineer, for his role in a multi-state research project. Donahue’s research is leading to new technology that maintains […]
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Contact: Media contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine –The University of Maine Upward Bound program will welcome approximately 150 high school sophomores, juniors and seniors Saturday, June 21, as they begin a six-week academic and career exploration experience. The majority of the students (100) are in the Classic Upward Bound general academic support […]
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