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UMaine News - Thursday, July 2 - Friday, July 3, 2009
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Hall Receives Prestigious Neuroscience Prize |
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Jeffrey Hall, Libra Professor of
Neurogenetics at UMaine, has won a share of the
prestigious Gruber Foundation 2009 Neuroscience Prize.
Hall, along with collaborators Michael Robash and
Michael Young, were recognized for their work in
molecular biology, identifying the genetic mechanisms
that control circadian rhythms in the nervous system. A
Gruber Foundation news release provides more
information. Hall is one of three UMaine faculty members
who is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. |
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UMaine Participating in Yellow Ribbon Program |
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The University of Maine is participating
in the Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program
(Yellow Ribbon Program), which is a provision of the
Post-Sept.11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of
2008. This voluntary program will help fund tuition
expenses that exceed the highest public in-state
undergraduate rate for eligible veterans. UMaine has
agreed to contribute up to $6,300 for each undergraduate
student, $1,000 for each graduate student, and $1,000
for each doctoral candidate who applies and qualifies
for the program. A maximum of 20 students will be
accepted on a first-come-first-served basis. |
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Public Invited to Second Surplus Property Sale |
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The UMaine Department of Auxiliary
Services is holding a second yard sale, on July 8, to
dispose of remaining discarded student property and
office and residence hall furniture that's being
replaced. The sale at Stewart Commons on Hilltop Road is
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The public is welcome. Items,
including tables, desks, bureaus, chairs, mirrors, beds,
and other furnishings from dining and student residence
halls, are priced low in order to dispose of them
quickly. "It's been used by the university and is in
fair to good condition," says Gordon Nelson, director of
property management for Auxiliary Services. "Anything
that was in poor condition we've disposed of."
A list of furnishings sold on June 10 and remaining
items for the July 8 sale is available on the Property
Management Web site. |
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UMaine Mares Fare Well in Horse Show |
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UMaine's two UMares -- DEWEY and APRIL --
turned some heads and earned some Standardbred fans at
the DownEast Congress Horse Show in Skowhegan last week.
A Class A double-judged and double-pointed show, this is
probably the largest all-breed show in the state each
year. APRIL (race name: SKITTISH) earned second and
fourth place honors in a Halter Class; two fifth places
in a Two-Gait Pleasure Class and unanimous fourths in
the Standardbred Championship class. APRIL was ridden by
junior education major Erin Clark of Bangor. DEWEY (race
name: DORUNBLUEFORTUNATE) was a show stealer from the
start. She took second and sixth places in the Halter
Class; and ridden by graduate student Amy Hofmann, fifth
and sixth in Two-Gait Equitation. Her crowning moment
came in the Standardbred Championship class when she was
unanimously selected as the Reserve Champion, second
only to a mare who was the National High Point Grand
Champion in 2007. She was ridden in this class by Equine
Instructor Melissa Spencer. |
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Steneck in Christian Science Monitor Blog |
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Comments from Robert Steneck of the UMaine
School of Marine Sciences faculty are in a Christian
Science Monitor blog. The blog
examines issues related to the depletion of fisheries in
various parts of the world, attributable to what Steneck
calls "roving banditry" -- large-scale trawling
operations from places like Europe, South Korea, Japan,
China, Taiwan and the U.S. aggressively harvesting fish
populations in regions including Africa's northwest
coast. The story draws a connection between depleted
fisheries and the emergence of piracy in that part of
the world. |
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BDN Reviews Museum Exhibits |
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Thursday's Bangor Daily News includes a
review of the current University of Maine Museum of Art
Exhibits: "Highway of Thought: Photographs by David
Hilliard," "Recent Sculptures by Christopher Frost" and
"Elegant Darkness: Photographs by Connie Imboden." The
show continues through Sept. 19. |
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Kersbergen, Jemison in BDN Agriculture Stories |
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Comments from Rick Kersbergen of the
UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty are featured in a
front-page Friday Bangor Daily News story about the
impact of the rainy weather on agricultural operations
around eastern and central Maine. John Jemison of the
Extension faculty is quoted in a similar story,
specifically about the potato industry. The latter story
also appears on the front page, but is not online. |
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Murphy in Sunday Telegram |
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Barbara Murphy of the UMaine Cooperative
Extension faculty provided comments for a Maine Sunday
Telegram story about the impact of the rainy weather on
plants and gardens. She points to issues related to rain
cooling soils and to pollination, because bees are not
as mobile when it's raining. |
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