UMaine News

Contact: Darrell Donahue (207) 581-2728David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has selected UMaine engineering professor Darrell Donahue to receive a Science & Technology Policy Fellowship beginning in September. During his yearlong appointment, Donahue will provide technical and engineering expertise for policy development and implementation to […]

Contact: Laura Wilson, 207-581-2971, lwilson@umext.maine.edu LINCOLNVILLE, Me.–A dozen local volunteers will walk the area around Coleman Pond on June 2, looking for soil erosion problems. The survey area will include portions of State Routes 52 and 173, parts of Slab City Road, and most of Chester Dean Road, as well as the smaller roads that […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine journalism students will be able to get the inside scoop from veteran reporters thanks to a new fund established by alumna Anne Lucey in memory of her late husband, Alan Miller, who taught journalism at UMaine for more than two decades.  The Alan Miller […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Aiming to make it easier for University of Maine students to pursue a career in construction management, the well known Brewer building firm of Nickerson & O’Day has established a scholarship in the name of its immediate past president, John F. “Jack” Kelley III. Kelley, who led […]

Contact: Joe Carr (UMaine) at (207) 581-3571; Doug Boxer-Cook (Bowdoin) at (207) 725-3964 AUGUSTA, Me. — Bowdoin College and the University of Maine today announced an innovative new engineering education partnership. The arrangement, announced in Augusta by Maine Gov. John Baldacci, creates a five-year program of study, with the first three years at Bowdoin. Students […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — In the years during and immediately following World War II, organized labor in Maine was at its peak, with upward of 95,000 men and women — nearly 37 percent of the state’s nonagricultural workforce — resoundingly supporting the war effort by helping build “the arsenal of democracy,” […]

Contact: Richard Brzozowski, 207-780-4205 TLAND, Me. — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will present workshops for sheep and goat producers at locations around Maine this spring and summer. Participants will learn how to perform a FAMACHA test, a relatively new on-farm technique to determine the degree of internal parasite infestation in sheep and goats. The […]

Contact: Amy Witt, 207-780-4205 or 800-287-1471 (in Maine) PORTLAND, Me. — Ken Canfield, district forester with the Maine Forest Service, will lead a tree tour of the historic and beautiful Evergreen Cemetery in Portland, on Friday June 8 from 10 a.m. to noon. The tour is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is […]

Contact: Kristen Whiting-Grant, 207-646-1555 x115 ORONO–From global climate change to increasing population pressure, Maine’s beaches will confront many changes in the coming decades. Public officials, coastal property owners, tourists and businesses each have a different interest in the beach, but a common desire for sustaining these valuable natural resources. Ways to achieve this common goal, […]

Contact: Joseph E. Phaneuf, Executive Director, jphaneuf@northernlogger.com (The following is a Northeastern Loggers’ Association press release.) Bangor, ME – The Northeastern Loggers’ Association (NELA) recently honored the UMaine Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center of Orono, ME as the recipient of its 2007 Outstanding Use of Wood award. NELA President John Caveney honored the AEWC Center […]