Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Thirty-five UMaine faculty members, representing each of UMaine’s academic colleges and Cooperative Extension, have been promoted and/or granted tenure. The University of Maine System Board of Trustees approved these actions at its Sunday/Monday meeting at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. “Promotion and tenure are significant […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – The UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum will sponsor a children’s program on maple sugaring Sunday, March 26, from 1-3 p.m. on the Orono campus. Events start at 1 p.m. with a video, “The Maple Sugaring Story.” At 1:30 three groups of children (grouped by grade […]
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Contact: Steve Price, Director of Communications, (207) 602.2269 UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND NEWS RELEASE BIDDEFORD – University of New England medical student John Lowery recently received a highly competitive grant from the American Medical Association to help fund his research into safer and more efficient pain treatments for arthritis sufferers. Lowery, who has completed his […]
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Contact: Kyle McCaskill, 207-581-3185 or 800-287-0274 PRESQUE ISLE–Organic farming is the fastest growing segment of U.S. agriculture, and there is no reason potatoes shouldn’t follow suit. In recognition and support of this trend, crops specialists Steven Johnson of UMaine Cooperative Extension and Eric Sideman of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) have teamed […]
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Contact: Rick Kersbergen/Sonia Antunes 1-800-287-1426 ORONO — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a forage conference designed to help dairy and livestock producers improve profitability on their farms. This conference will be held on Thursday, April 6 in central Maine at the Besse Building (Town Office) in Albion and will feature Jack Lazor from […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — State Sen. John Martin (D-Eagle Lake) will visit the University of Maine on Wednesday, March 22 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Martin will spend the afternoon at UMaine, meeting with students, faculty members and staff members. The Distinguished […]
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Contact: Anne Schmidt, (207) 581-1259, Joe Carr, (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Hundreds of Maine middle school girls will spend a day at the University of Maine on Thursday March 16, learning about math- and science-oriented careers historically pursued by males. Coming from all corners of the state, more than 400 girls will attend UMaine’s 20th […]
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Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — A University of Maine graduate student is being recognized nationally for her research and resulting model for incorporating multiculturism into the academic preparation of physical therapists. Suzanne Gordon, director of the Physical Therapy program at Husson College in Bangor and a doctoral student in UMaine’s Higher […]
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Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, 581-1904George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — A Boston photographer who spent nine years interviewing and photographing Maine women who have created a sense of place, community and commitment living off the land is bringing her exhibit to the University of Maine’s Hudson Museum March 29-May 6. “Maine Women: living on the land” will […]
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Contact: Dan Sandweiss (207) 581-1889David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine -Some surprising new findings made by UMaine researcher Dan Sandweiss place cornmeal on the menu for native Americans much earlier than previously believed. Working with colleagues from Ithaca College and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Sandweiss discovered evidence of two types of cultivated […]
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