UMaine News

Contact: Michael Robbins (207) 581-2051; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – Psychology professors Merrill Elias, Michael Robbins, and Penelope Elias are continuing their study of the relationship between high blood pressure and cognitive skills thanks to a $680,619 grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The project’s latest manifestation will […]

Contact: Kathleen March, 581-2088; Lyn Dexter, 581-1349; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — More than 90 UMaine students, faculty and employees are dedicating their spring break vacations to doing charitable volunteer work up and down the East Coast and in Central America this year. It is the largest representation from UMaine since the Alternative Spring Break […]

Contact: Ann Smith, 581-2319; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The snow is beginning to fall as cold January air swirls inside the University of Maine’s new “Access Van” when driver Matt Jackins lowers the hydraulic wheelchair ramp for student Svetlana Miljkovic outside Gannett Hall. Once “Lana” Miljkovic wheels into the van and the doors close, […]

Contact: Laura Wilson, 800-870-7270 (in Maine) or 207-581-2971 LINCOLNVILLE–UMaine Cooperative Extension

Contact: Jose Cordero, 581-1425, George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – James Varner, president of the Greater Bangor NAACP, will bethe Black History Month dinner speaker on Friday, Feb. 24 from 6-8 atStodder Commons. The previously scheduled speaker, James Wallace, professor of highereducation leadership at Eastern Illinois University, was unable to makethe engagement, according to Jose Cordero, […]

Contact: Chris Frank, 866-6521; Debbie Neuman, 866-6500 ORONO — UMaine graduate and president of Intelligent SpatialTechnologies (iST) Chris Frank recently received the Small BusinessAdministration’s prestigious Maine Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awardfor his innovative “iPointer,” a digital tour guide product his companyis developing. The device gives visiting users information about landmarks by simply pointing at […]

Contact: Cindy Thomas, (207) 581-3072, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The intensified special topics class the University of Mainetraditionally designs around the three-day Camden Conference has grownso popular after nine years that it now is filling up almost as fast asword gets out about registration. This year’s course, structured around the Feb. 24-26 conference,focuses […]

Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 Music professor Stuart Marrs, in conjunction with the UMaine Office ofResearch and Economic Development, recently completed a uniquerecording project that could become a novel new business venture –interactive DVD tutorials for classical instruments. Marrs, chair of the music division in the School of Performing Arts,collaborated with staff in the […]

Contact: Ginger Hwalek, 581-1246; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Ginger Yang Hwalek, a music instructor in the UMaine School ofPerforming Arts’ Music Division and long time piano teacher andaccompanist in the Bangor area, recently was named the 2006 Teacher ofthe Year by one of the largest music teachers organizations in thenation. The award from the […]

Contact: Steven Colburn, 581-1982; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine accounting students will be available on Mondaysthrough April 17 to provide free help with filing state and federalincome tax returns. The Monday sessions from 12-2:30 p.m. in Room 113 in the Donald P. Corbett Business Building began Feb. 6. Students in the UMaine Business School […]