Comments from Jane Conroy of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty are included in a Central Maine Morning Sentinel story providing advice about budgeting during the holiday season. In the story, Conroy also points to her recent research about the economic value of shopping locally.
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An Associated Press story details a new stage in the extensive hazing research project being conducted by Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden of the UMaine education faculty. Following their 2008 survey that provided the most extensive information ever collected on the subject as it relates to U.S. colleges and universities, Allan and Madden have launched […]
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The Bangor Daily News posted a story to its website a few hours after Friday’s announcement that a company marketing UMaine’s bridge-in-a-backpack technology had signed a memorandum of understanding with a Russian firm that could put the carbon-fiber bridges, developed at the AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, to use during the 2014 Winter Oympics […]
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In an article listing tips for holiday shopping, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper gave a suggestion from UMaine’s Cooperative Extension. The suggestion was for parents who bring children shopping to give the child something to do during the shopping excursion, such as looking for an item organizing coupons.
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The website FISHupdate.com has a story about a new high-level containment lab being built at UMaine in order to study fish pathogens that occur in cold-water species. Construction on the lab, which was funded in part by a $600,000 grant from the Maine Technology Institute, is expected to begin next spring.
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Contact: Theresa McMannus, 581-2441 The College of Education and Human Development, in collaboration with the University Bookstore and the Old Town-Orono Kiwanis Club, has begun accepting books for its annual children’s holiday book drive, now in its 33rd year. New books for toddlers through teens can be dropped off unwrapped at the office of college […]
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Contact: Leslie Forstadt (207) 581-3487 or leslie.forstadt@maine.edu It’s the time of year when thoughts turn to holiday shopping – and the pressure of buying the perfect gift or making sure no one is forgotten. University of Maine Cooperative Extension Child and Family Development Specialist Leslie Forstadt says there are plenty of alternative gift ideas for […]
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Contact: Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, 581-3124 Research by UMaine professor of clinical nutrition Dorothy Klimis-Zacas and colleagues about the positive health effects wild blueberries have had when fed to hypertensive laboratory rats was cited in an article Nov. 18 on the NutraIngredients-USA.com website, a daily online health and nutrition news service. The article discusses findings of research […]
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The UMaine School of Performing Arts calendar for the coming weekend includes theater, chamber music and choral performances. The student theatrical production of “Brilliant Traces,” directed by Marcia Douglas of the theater faculty, continues tonight and Saturday, Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 21, at 4 p.m. at the Cyrus Pavilion Theater. Also […]
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Contact: Barbara Denaro, (barbara.denaro@umit.maine.edu) ORONO — Two dozen UMaine art students are exhibiting 80 works of art for the 2010 Capstone Senior Exhibit Dec. 3 through Jan. 20 at the Lord Hall Galleries. The show, titled “You Are Here,” includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, mixed media, ceramics and photography. The work represents what the students […]
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