UMaine News

Contact: Ali Abedi (207) 581-2231; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – UMaine has been selected as a recipient of the 2006 Supporting Friend of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Regional Activities Award. Approved by the IEEE Regional Activities Board in November, the award was established to recognize those organizations that encourage […]

Contact: Peter Jumars (207) 581-3321; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – The Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) elected UMaine School of Marine Sciences Professor Peter A. Jumars to be its Chair Elect for 2007 at its semi-annual meeting in December. The CSSP (http://www.cssp.us/) is the nation’s leading center for development of science leadership […]

Contact: Cathy Billings (207) 581-2751; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — UMaine’s new Maine Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory (MAAHL) recently received a grant of $395,205 from the State of Maine’s Marine Research Fund, administered by the Maine Technology Institute.  The award will allow MAAHL to purchase equipment that will greatly increase the lab’s capabilities […]

Contact: Roberta Laverty (207) 581-2110; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – Xuelian Zhang has been named UMaine’s first recipient of the Wood Based Composites Fellowship, established in 2006 with a gift from the Virginia Tech Foundation. Zhang, a Ph.D. student working at the AEWC Center, has completed approximately 2 years of her studies and […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Future users of the University’s of Maine’s Student Recreation Center, under construction and due to open next fall, will have the opportunity to try out some of the exercise equipment that might be available to them in the new facility. UMaine campus recreation officials will bring top-of-the-line […]

Contact: Paige Lilly, (207) 581-2665 ORONO — The new traveling exhibit extracted from the University of Maine’s William S. Cohen Papers collection, featuring facsimiles of photographs, handwritten notes, speeches and campaign memorabilia from the former congressman’s political papers, currently is on display at the Bangor Public Library through Jan. 17. The exhibit illuminates the way […]

Contact: Mary Dinsmore, Pine Tree State 4-H Foundation, P (207) 581-3327, F (207) 581-1387 ORONO, Me. –Staff members of University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s 4-H youth development program were excited to learn that their program will receive proceeds from ticket sales for the new movie, “Charlotte’s Web.” Paramount Pictures and Walden Media have agreed to […]

Contact: David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – Professor Michael Worboys from the Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering at the University of Maine was recently named one of 24 distinguished scientists in an international nomination, peer evaluation and selection process managed by the Association of Computing Machinery. ACM is the world’s oldest and […]

Contact: Peter Sexton (207) 764-3361; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – Working in collaboration with businesses in northern Maine, UMaine Cooperative Extension Crops Specialist Peter Sexton has completed a pilot project that successfully converted Maine-grown seed crops into 1000 gallons of the alternative fuel biodiesel. The project offers an exciting glimpse into Maine’s potential […]

Contact: Laurie Connell (207) 581-2470; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — Potato wart, a highly contagious fungal disease of potatoes, can not only ruin a potato crop, it can destroy the agricultural value of the soil it infects for decades. So virulent that it has been listed as a threat to the nation’s biosecurity […]