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Student Engineers to Test Custom-Built Submarine

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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Evelyn Silver Named UMaine Associate Vice President

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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Orono Bog Boardwalk Open to the Public June 23

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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Reading Focus of Annual Adult Education Institute

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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USDA Gives Award to UMaine Engineer

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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Upward Bound Begins 38th Year at UMaine

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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UMaine to Host Law Enforcement Mountain Bicycle Patrol School

Contact: Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Orono, ME — Bicycle patrol officers from municipal police departments and campus public safety officers throughout New England will be at The University of Maine on through June 20 to learn how better to combine law enforcement with cycling.  The UMaine Department of Public Safety Department is sponsoring […]

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Research and Business Growth Envisioned at UMaine Wood Composites Center

Contact: Contact: Habib Dagher, Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center, 207-581-2138; Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO, Maine — The Advanced Engineered Wood Composites (AEWC) Center at the University of Maine will expand its research laboratories, add a small conference facility and provide space for a new student entrepreneurship program as a result of […]

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Grant to Fund Continued Work on Historical Atlas of Maine

Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A seven-year research project that will culminate in the publication of the “Historical Atlas of Maine” has received a $293,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The two-year grant to the University of Maine, where the atlas is being developed, will allow […]

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Utah State Official Named UMaine Dean

Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Ann Leffler, Ph.D., associate dean of the Utah State University College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, has been named dean of the University of Maine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  The University of Maine System Board of Trustees approved her appointment earlier this […]

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