UMaine News

Contact: Media contact: Nancy Santos Gainer at (202) 686-4014; Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Dana Wilde, Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Maine, has received a Fulbright Senior Specialists grant in U.S. Studies- Literatur at Xiamen University,English Department. The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program offers two- to six-week grants to leading U.S. academics and professionals to […]

Contact: For additional information please call 207-561-3350 John Marin’s Maine In commemoration of the 50th year anniversary of the death of John Marin (1870-1953), The University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA) will present John Marin

Contact: Media contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO– A federal allocation will provide seed money for the University of Maine to shape a coaching and sports education initiative aligned with timely educational issues and the state’s learning standards. Former Maine Education Commissioner J. Duke Albanese is spearheading the effort to create research-based curriculum development […]

Contact: Media contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO, Maine — The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a proposed $1.6 million research program to be led by the University of Maine on abrupt climate change, senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) announced today. As contained in legislation to be brought to […]

Contact: Media contact: Cathy Billings at (207) 581-2751 ORONO, Me. — “Everything Lobster,” an old-fashioned clambake and special presentation, both featuring lobster, is scheduled for Warren’s Lobster House in Kittery on Wednesday, Sept. 17.  Members of the public are invited to the event, hosted by the Lobster Institute of the University of Maine and Warren’s […]

Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Domestic violence, women’s advocacy and the oral histories of women military veterans will be among the topics discussed during the University of Maine’s Women in the Curriculum and Women’s Studies Program’s brown bag lunch series this semester. The discussions will be held from 12:15-1:30 p.m. […]

Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The art of University of Maine art department faculty members will be highlighted in the 36th annual Faculty Exhibition, which runs through Oct. 15 in the 1938 and Carnegie Galleries in UMaine’s Carnegie Hall. An opening reception is set for Friday, Sept. 12 from 5-7 […]

Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO– The University of Maine’s Page Farm and Home Museum has scheduled a Wednesday, Sept. 17 field trip to three central Maine farms.  The field trip is intended to appeal to those interested in modern industrial farming and organic market farming. The tour will leave the Page […]

Contact: Media contact: Timothy J. Dalton, Dept. of Resource Economics and Policy, 207-581-3237; Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO, Maine — New agricultural crops stand a better chance of helping to fill the world’s bread baskets, says a University of Maine economist, if plant breeders take farmers’ needs into account early in the […]

Contact: Media contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Despite a weak national economy and uncertainty regarding national security, private giving to the University of Maine increased significantly during the past year, according to Jeffery N. Mills, UMaine’s vice president for advancement and president of the University of Maine Alumni Association.  UMaine’s  Office of […]