UMaine News

Contact: Mary Bird, 581-2434; Tiffany Wilson, 581-3288 ORONO — The Edith Marion Patch Center for Entomology, the Environment and Education and the UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum are offering a free public educational forum on sketching nature on Sunday, Feb. 26. “Field Sketching: A hands-on opportunity to reproduce the art of nature” is scheduled […]

Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – Captain Laurence Wade, master of the Castine-berthed training ship State of Maine, which responded to disaster relief efforts on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, will speak about his experiences at a Brown Bag Lunch Lecture March 1 at noon at the UMaine Page Farm and […]

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Contact: Rory Eckardt, 949-4401; Debbie Neuman, 866-6500 ORONO – A recent UMaine graduate has become one of the newest tenants at the Target Technology Innovation Center’s business incubator in Orono, launching a forest consulting business he hopes will help loggers, foresters and landowners in Maine make the most efficient use of their property and equipment. […]

Contact: Andrew Knapp, Public Relations-Philanthropy Chairman, Beta Eta Chapter of Beta Theta Pi, 581-8323 ORONO – Beta Theta Pi, the University of Maine’s oldest fraternity, is undertaking an effort to decrease rape crimes in the area and increase awareness of the issue. But to do this, the brothers need the community’s help. Starting at 6 […]

Contact: Donna Lamb, 800-287-1491 (in Maine) or 207-564-3301 ORONO– University of Maine Cooperative Extension, the UMaine Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences and the Risk Management Agency will conduct a clinic on horse industry business and safety. The Horse Business and Safety Clinic will be held on Saturday, March 25 from 9 a.m. to 4 […]

Contact: David Munson at (207) 581-3777 MITCHELL CENTER SPRING 2006 SEMINAR SERIES PENOBSCOT RIVER RESEARCH — LOOKING TO THE FUTURE Seminars are sponsored by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research and the UMaine Program in Ecology and Environmental Science. This goal of this seminar series is to provide information on […]

Contact: Michael T. Kinnison (207) 581-2575; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Me. – Researchers from UMaine will soon be on the trail of one of the East Coast’s longest-lived and most endangered fish, thanks to an $86,298 grant from the United States Department of Commerce (NOAA/NMFS). UMaine Biological Sciences Professor Michael T. Kinnison, School of […]

Contact: Mary Ellen Camire (207) 581-1627; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Me. – A state-of-the-art densitometer will soon contribute to an array of research programs being carried out by the UMaine Food Science and Human Nutrition (FSHN) faculty. The programs focus on the growing problems of obesity and osteoporosis around the world. Utilizing a grant […]

Contact: Gregory Porter (207) 581-2943; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Me. – UMaine Agronomy researcher Gregory Porter was recently awarded more than $250,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for an ongoing eight-state potato breeding project aimed at creating improved potato varieties for cultivation in the Eastern United States. Maine’s potato industry generated […]