UMaine News

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine and Orono police have received reports of 16 vehicle burglaries that occurred during the evening of Jan. 1 and the morning of Jan. 2.  Each of these incidents occurred on the UMaine campus or in adjacent residential areas. Investigators are hoping for help from […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine System Chancellor Joseph Westphal has approved two recent University of Maine appointments.  Robin Toderian has been promoted to the role of Assistant Vice President of Auxiliary Services and June Baldacci has been named director of Purchasing and Resource Efficiency. “In two years as UMaine’s […]

Contact: Laura Wilson, University of Maine Cooperative Extension, 207-581-2971, lwilso91@maine.edu ORONO–Lincoln area residents will have the opportunity this winter to learn about water quality in lakes and how to protect it. The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering its Watershed Stewards program starting February 16 at the Lincoln Town Office. The program will run […]

Contact: Carla Fearon, (207) 817-7355, Laura Lindenfeld, (207) 581-3850, John Bear Mitchell, (207) 581-1417; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO–Dozens of Penobscot Nation children will have a chance to become songwriters as a result of a special cultural project taking place in April through a collaboration of the Penobscot Nation Boys and Girls Club and the […]

Contact: Nory Jones, 581- 1995; Nancy Dysart, 973-5055; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO–It won’t exactly be the Clash of the Titans, but a group of University of Maine Business School faculty have challenged the UMaine women’s hockey team to a 10-minute game of broomball, a fundraising battle on ice, Jan. 29, during the period breaks at […]

Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO–Part-time Women’s Studies faculty member Margaret Cruikshank has been awarded an honorable mention by a national human rights center for her latest book, “Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture and Aging.” The book, published in 2003 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., of Boulder, Colo. was one of fewer than […]