Contact: Media contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777; Chuck Simpson, University Forests Office, 207-581-3626. ORONO– For the third time in the last four years, a University of Maine student is the National Collegiate Game of Logging champion. Josh Bubier, a junior in forestry from Monmouth, Maine, won the competition held October 18 at […]
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Contact: Media contact: Amos Orcutt, President/CEO, University of Maine Foundation, 800.982.8503 At the 2003 Annual Meeting of the University of Maine Foundation, Robert W. Daigle was elected Chair of the Board for 2003-2004. A Camden resident, Mr. Daigle is a 1971 graduate of The University of Maine and is President and CEO of Camden National […]
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Contact: Media contacts: Joe Carr, University of Maine, 581-3571; Joyce Peterson, The Jackson Laboratory, 288-6058 WHEN: Thursday, October 23, 2003, 10:30 a.m. WHERE: Buchanan Alumni House, University of Maine, Orono WHO: Robert A. Kennedy, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Provost, University of Maine Susan R. McKay, Ph.D., Professor of Physics and Director of the Center […]
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Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO, Me. — University of Maine students, employees and alumni will gather at UMaine’s Buchanan Alumni House on Friday, Oct. 24 at 2 p.m. for a festive event marking the unveiling of the new UMaine Black Bear license plate. The plates will be widely available for sale […]
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Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Seniors across Maine will benefit from a new University of Maine Center on Aging program funded by a $1.3 million Corporation for National and Community Service federal grant. UMaine won the grant in a national competition for federal funding to address community needs through service. […]
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Contact: Media contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777; Richard Judd, Dept. of History, 207-581-1910; Christopher Beach, Unity College, 207-948-3131, ext. 315. ORONO, Maine — With campaigns over landfills, dams, endangered species and other issues, environmental activism came of age in the latter part of the 19th century. The movement grew out of historical […]
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Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Noted scientist and teacher Joyce Longcore identified fungi responsible for a world-wide depletion of amphibians. Dahlov Ipcar began her artist career as a WPA muralist and later wrote and illustrated over thirty children’s books. Mother of six, Lillian O’Brien is a state legislator and a […]
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Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A group of approximately 45 University of Maine students — all but five of them undergraduate business majors — will travel to Portland on Friday, Oct. 17 for a Portland Marketing Association (PMA) forum “Understanding the Value of Market Research.” This is the first event […]
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Contact: Contact: Amos Orcutt, University of Maine Foundation – 581-5100; Donna Thornton, The University of Maine Alumni Association – 581-1134 Orono, Maine — Congressman Clifford G. McIntire, University of Maine Class of 1930, was honored posthumously on October 8 in a ceremony at the University’s new Buchanan Alumni House for his vision and leadership in […]
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Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine Cooperative Extension, working with staff from the Maine Dept. of Agriculture and the federal agency Resource Conservation and Development, has organized a goat and sheep auction for Saturday, Oct. 11 in Corinth. The auction, which is intended to connect producers with new […]
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