UMaine News

Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Tens of thousands of trucks cross the borders between the United States and Canada annually as international commerce worth more than $1 billion a day moves everything from food, electronics and petroleum to paper and other forest products back and forth. With 40 percent of Maine’s total […]

Contact: George Manlove at (207 )581-3756 ORONO — Grandparents who provide homes for grandchildren who are at risk in their parents’ homes face a patchwork of confounding financial issues if they accept those children before state human services agencies intervene. And if children are removed from homes by the Maine Department of Human Services, grandparents […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — While University of Maine students were away on Spring Break last week, UMaine’s police chief was representing UMaine and college law enforcement at three national programs. “It Is exciting that UMaine is being recognized as a school with the experience and results to be invited to national-level […]

Contact: Kimberly Johnston at (207) 581-1570; Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Kimberly Johnston , interim co-director of admissions at the University of Maine and president of the New England Association for College Admission Counseling, traveled to Washington, DC, March 1-2, 2004, to urge Congress to support federal funds for student access to higher […]

Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 Note: Student engineers will be available from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday, March 12 to discuss the competition and show their work on the snowmobile in Crosby Lab on the UMaine campus. ORONO, Maine — A team of University of Maine mechanical engineering students is finishing last […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — A statewide panel charged with shaping core principles and practices to guide interscholastic sports turned to the experts today to glean information about the athletic experience in Maine’s high schools and middle schools.  Approximately 300 athletes and the adults responsible for their sports programs poured onto […]

Contact: Bob Potts, Alumni Programs & Marketing, (207) 581-1149 / 1 (800) 934-2586 ORONO, ME ~ The University of Maine Alumni Association is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2004 Alumni Awards.  They are as follows: Alumni Career Award (UMAA’s highest honor): Senator Olympia J. Snowe ’69, Falmouth, ME Bernard Lown ’42 Humanitarian Award […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — More than 300 student-athletes, coaches, principals, athletic directors and other schools officials are at the University of Maine today, adding their ideas to a growing compilation of information to guide healthy interscholastic sports programs in Maine.  Participants at the Maine Sports Summit represent 85 high schools […]

Contact: Laura Wilson, Cooperative Extension, 1-800-870-7270, 581-2971 ORONO, Maine — Cumberland County’s Forest Lake will come under scrutiny by citizens and water quality specialists participating in the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Watershed Stewards Program this spring. Citizens can register for the program which will begin March 31 and meet from 6:30 to 9 p.m. […]

Contact: Wally Mason at 561-3350 ART EXHIBITION   April 2 — June 19, 2004 The University of Maine Museum of Art is pleased to present the work of three New England artists at Norumbega Hall in downtown Bangor. Marguerite Robichaux Over Yonder Marguerite Robichaux’s recent paintings and drawings, on view at The University of Maine Museum […]