Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571; Alan Parks, 581-1236 ORONO–When managers of Maine government’s websites needed help using specialized software to make their websites accessible to all users, they turned to The University of Maine’s Howard Mosher, UM Webmaster, and Alan Parks, coordinator of dissemination and technology at the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability […]
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Contact: Paul Mayewski, Climate Change Institute, 207-581-3019, paul.mayewski@maine.edu; Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777. Houtman@maine.edu ORONO – A team led by University of Maine scientists has reported finding a potential link between changes in solar activity and the Earth’s climate. In a paper due to be published in an upcoming volume of the Annals […]
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Contact: Harvey Kail, (207) 581-3829; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO–University of Maine Associate Professor Harvey Kail recently received a national honor for his work encouraging student collaborations as coordinator of the peer tutoring program at the UMaine Writing Center at Neville Hall. Kail received the 2004 Ron Maxwell Award for Distinguished Leadership in Promoting the […]
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Contact: Roberta Laverty, Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center, 207 581 2110, roberta.laverty@umit.maine.edu ORONO–Tom and Linda Patrick of West Boothbay Harbor and Robert Lindyberg of Orono have received the 1st Annual AEWC Center Director’s Awards at the University of Maine Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center. Director Habib J. Dagher presented the awards December 11 to the […]
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Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777, houtman@maine.edu ORONO–The Orono Bog Boardwalk, a 4,200-foot long, four-foot wide ribbon of hemlock boards that starts in the Bangor City Forest, had about 21,000 person-visits from opening day on May 1st to closing day on November 28th, according to founder, University of Maine emeritus professor and outgoing […]
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Contact: For additional information please call 561.3350 ORONO–The University of Maine Museum of Art is pleased to present two new exhibitions at Norumbega Hall in downtown Bangor: A Maritime Album, an expansive, historical exhibit organized by the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia; and a sculpture installation entitled freezetag by Anya Lewis, originally from Bangor. […]
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Contact: Nick Houtman, University of Maine Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777, houtman@maine.edu ORONO–Maine Maritime Academy has teamed up with the Advanced Engineered Wood Composites (AEWC) Center at the University of Maine, Correct Building Products in Biddeford and the Cianbro Corporation in Pittsfield to build a wood composite sea wall at MMA’s campus in Castine. The […]
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Contact: Dan Innis, (207) 581-1968; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO–University of Maine Business School students soon will have a few more opportunities for international field work, according to Dean Dan Innis, after his recent participation in Gov. John Baldacci’s trade mission to Europe. Innis represented the University of Maine System as part of a delegation […]
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Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777, houtman@maine.edu;Shirley Hager, University of Maine Cooperative Extension, 207-581-3183, shager@umext.maine.edu ORONO, Maine – The Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Massachusetts, may be the mother of New England’s agricultural fairs. For the more than 60 Maine 4-H members who competed at the BigE last September, it was the […]
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Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine Jazz Ensemble and UMaine Jazz Combo will appear in concert in Hauck Auditorium in the Memorial Union of the University of Maine on Thursday evening, Dec. 2, beginning at 7:30 pm. Among the pieces to be performed by the Jazz Ensemble is Larry Kerchner’s arrangement of […]
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