UMaine News

Contact: Patty Henner, 581-1400; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO –The University of Maine’s Page Farm and Home Museum is offering historical time-traveling for area youth through its annual “Pathways to the Past” heritage day camp during April school vacation. The camp, for children ages 6-10, is 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 21, through Friday, April 24. […]

Contact: Len Kaye, 626-7922; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The fourth annual geriatric colloquium being held by the University of Maine Center on Aging and partnering agencies on May 1 in Northport takes up some of the serious and potentially debilitating issues resulting from early-life trauma and how it affects aging survivors. Geared for healthcare […]

Contact: Judy Round (207) 581-5100 ORONO, Me. – David R. Foster, director of the Harvard Forest, will give the Univerity of Maine’s 2009 Geddes W. Simpson Distinguished Lecture. The lecture will be held on the UMaine’s Maine Day, Wednesday, April 29 at 3 p.m. in the McIntire Room of Buchanan Alumni House. The topic of […]

Contact: Matthew Scott, (207) 699-8747; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 The University of Maine’s ChemE Car Teams took the two highest honors at last weekend’s race sponsored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Blue Team finished in first place out of nine teams, stopping less that two inches […]

Contact: Nory Jones, 581-1971; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — A group of UMaine students and faculty or staff advisors is expecting as many as 1,000-2,000 people will attend a special event, “Care A-Fair, a Celebration of Student Giving,” on April 25, to celebrate relationships between the university student volunteers and the charitable organizations they serve. […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Former Maine Speaker of the House Michael Saxl will visit the University of Maine on Thursday April 2 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Saxl will spend the day at UMaine, meeting with students, faculty members and staff members. […]