Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Celebration of Darwin class and lecture series continues on Monday Oct. 5 and Wednesday, Oct. 7. UMaine Prof. Keith Hutchison will give a Monday talk, “The Genome: Changing Slow, Changing Fast,” and Prof. Irv Kornfield will speak on Wednesday about “Speciation and Gladogenesis.” […]
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Contacts: George Criner, (207) 581- 3151; Hugh Stevens, (207) 581-3111 ORONO — The University of Maine is receiving more than $1.8 million for a new initiative to help Maine employers respond to 2008 natural disasters and economic distress. A $1.82 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) enables a unique […]
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Contact: Kathy Savoie, (207) 780-4205 ORONO, Me.—University of Maine Cooperative Extension recommends its bulletins on in-season fruits and vegetables for consumers looking for information about using, preserving and storing agricultural products such as apples and potatoes. Popular October bulletins such as “Let’s Preserve Apples” and “Vegetables and Fruits for Health: Potatoes and Safe Home Cider […]
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Contact: Joe Carr (joecarr@maine.edu) at 581-3571 BELFAST — The University of Maine will celebrate the construction of a new wing at its Belfast Hutchinson Center on Monday, Oct. 5 at 11 a.m. UMaine President Robert Kennedy and others will participate in a brief program and a ribbon-cutting for the addition, which adds classroom and laboratory […]
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Contact: Ryan Bouchard, 581-1796 ORONO — The Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism is holding its Fifth Annual “UMaine Cares” service event in celebration of National Make a Difference Day, Oct. 24. UMaine Cares began in 2005 as an effort to raise funds for hurricane relief in the Gulf Coast area. Student groups and individuals […]
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Contacts: Merrill F. Elias, (207) 244-9674; Greg Dore, (207) 581- 2022 ORONO — University of Maine researchers studying cardiovascular risk factors that influence cognitive performance have discovered that diabetics who carry a particular genotype — one or more of the ApoE-e4 alleles — are at greater risk for diminished cognitive capacity than individuals without the […]
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Contact: Jennifer Crittenden, 262-7923 ORONO — The University of Maine Center on Aging, in partnership with the Maine Community Foundation, is seeking older volunteers for a new program, Encore Leadership Corps (ENCorps), to provide leaders for a variety of “smart growth” projects in Maine. To get the program started, between 150 and 200 ENCorps volunteers […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine is one of several prestigious marine research institutions joining forces to study North Atlantic marine ecosystems as part of the Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR). In addition to UMaine, the collaborative involves Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Rutgers University, the University […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571, joecarr@maine.edu ORONO — The University of Maine will further establish itself as a national hub of hazing-related research when it hosts the 6th annual National Hazing Symposium on Thursday Oct. 1 and Friday Oct. 2 at Memorial Union. The program, expected to draw 50 hazing researchers and experts to […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Celebration of Darwin class and lecture series continues on Monday Sept. 28 and Wednesday, Sept. 30. UMaine Prof. Irv Kornfield will give a Monday talk, “Sexual Selection,” and Prof. Keith Hutchison will speak on Wednesday about “The Laws of Variation and the Geonome.” […]
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