Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Two University of Maine colleges will be under new leadership when classes begin for the fall semester, as two veteran UMaine deans have announced their plans to step down. G. Bruce Wiersma, a UMaine graduate who has served as dean of the college now known as the […]
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Contact: Brenda Hall (207) 581-2191; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — UMaine glacial geologist Brenda Hall’s accidental discovery more than ten years ago is proving to be an important key to understanding the ways in which the climate near the Antarctic coast has changed over time. Searching for particles of organic matter while studying […]
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Contact: David Munson (207) 581-3777 UMaine Prof. Barry Goodell, of the Wood Science and Technology Program and the Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center, has received the prestigious Gottshalk Award from the Forest Products Society, a worldwide technical organization in forest products and wood science. The award, named for the society’s first president, is the “society’s […]
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Contact: Laura Kenefic (207) 581-2794; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – The American Chestnut Foundation, working together with UMaine and the U.S. Forest Service, has established a new chestnut orchard at the Penobscot Experimental Forest in Bradley, Maine. The goal of the orchard is to develop a new strain of chestnut trees that are […]
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Contact: Roberta Laverty (207) 581-2110; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO–UMaine’s AEWC Center has recently partnered with Old Town Canoe and the Maine Technology Institute to develop and test a new line of Old Town composite canoes and kayaks. With Maine Technology Institute seed grant funding and AEWC Center expertise, Old Town Canoe will develop, refine […]
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Contact: Charlene Herrick (207) 581-3204; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — The UMaine System Board of Trustees recently approved the establishment of the new Center for Research on Sustainable Forests. The new center will offer forestry and environmental researchers both on and off campus with new opportunities for research and collaboration, complimenting the efforts […]
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Contact: Rhea Cote, (207) 989-7059; Gretchen Faulkner, 581- 1904; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — “Comme on fait son lit, on se couche.” (As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.” “Plus
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Contact: Lenard Kaye, 581-3483; Marcia Sibley, (207) 794-6700; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine Center on Aging is using technology — the Internet — to help provide several new services for grandparents and other relatives who serve as foster parents in remote parts of northern Penobscot and southern Aroostook counties. The Center on Aging […]
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Contact: Emily Ann Cain, Coordinator of Advancement, Honors College, 207-581-3263 ORONO — Nicklaus Laverty, a 2006 Honors College graduate from the University of Maine is one of 77 students nationwide to earn a Graduate Scholarship in the nationally competitive Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Program. Laverty competed with 1,100 nominees to earn this distinction. The Graduate […]
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Contact: Francois Amar, 581-1168George Manlove, 581-3756 Digital photo available upon request. ORONO – University of Maine chemistry professor Fran
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