Contact: Nick Houtman, 207-581-3777 ORONO, Maine — Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Michael Errigo didn’t have many chances to fish. He tried his luck once at the end of a city pier but didn’t catch a thing. Now, the tide may have turned for the University of Maine Ph.D. student in the School of […]
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Contact: Rick Redmond, (207) 991-1543, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The Maine Campus, the University of Maine’s student newspaper, recently collected a first place and two second place awards in a national collegiate competition in Stamford Conn. in April. In the Society of Professional Journalists’ Region 1 “Mark of Excellence Awards” competition, the UMaine […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, (207) 581- 4100, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum is sponsoring a brown bag lunch lecture session May 25 on backyard poultry-keeping, with speaker Bob Hawes, a poultry expert and professor emeritus of animal veterinary and aquatic sciences. The noon lecture is part of the […]
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Contact: Kelly Arsenault, Maine Learning Technology Initiative, (207) 592-1824; Bette Manchester, Maine Dept. of Education and MLTI, (207) 592-3993; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — More than 400 middle school students, teachers and parents from throughout Maine are on the University of Maine campus today for the second annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) iTEAM […]
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Contact: Shannon E. Martin Ph: 207-581-1281; Sundari Pai Ph: 207-581-1939 ORONO — The 12th annual student journalism conference organized by the Maine Center for Student Journalism was held on May 11 at the D. P Corbett Business Building on the University of Maine campus. The theme of the conference was “International Journalism at Home,” with […]
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Contact: Chris Corro, (207) 581-1142, Donna Thornton, (207) 581-2586, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — For recent University of Maine graduates, leaving campus no longer means losing touch with classmates, acquaintances and campus news. For the first time since the FirstClass email and communications network was introduced to the campus in 1994, graduates will be […]
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Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 Note: News media representatives are welcome to cover the installation of the news satellite dish and its protective dome cover on Aubert Hall at 9 a.m. Thursday, May 12. Coverage will be conducted from the ground or from the upper floors of nearby buildings. Due to safety […]
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Contact: Jonathan Rubin, Dept. of Resource Economics and Policy and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, 207-581-1528 ORONO, Maine — Few consumers take environmental factors into account when they buy a new vehicle, according to early results of a University of Maine research project. With support from a $399,979 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency […]
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Contact: Lisa Daniel, (207) 581-3113, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — While thousands of graduating college students have moved off campus at the University of Maine, thousands are flocking back classrooms, summer camps and field seminars soon as part of the UMaine’s ambitious Summer Session. Summer programs involve all of the university’s colleges and academic […]
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Contact: Kay Hyatt (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine has taken the lead in ensuring that the teachers it graduates are ready to appropriately and creatively use technology as they take on their own classrooms and increasingly computer savvy young pupils. The UMaine College of Education and Human Development is the first […]
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