Year: 2010

Russian Company Considering UMaine Bridge Technology for 2014 Olympics

Contact: Habib Dagher, (207) 581-2138 Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center and private company Advanced Infrastructure Technologies LLC (AIT) are talking with a Russian company about exporting UMaine’s Bridge-in-a-BackpackTM technology to Russia for use in preparation for increased traffic related to the 2014 Winter […]

Read more

Future Of Oyster Industry Discussed At Meeting

A recent meeting at UMaine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole about Maine’s oyster industry was the subject of an article in Fenceviewer.com. Oyster growers and state officials discussed an oyster disease that, while not lethal to humans, could affect the oyster market.

Read more

Fried Quoted In Look At Growth Of Political Blogs In Maine

UMaine political scientist Amy Fried was quoted in a Maine Media column on downeast.com about the growth of political blogs in Maine. Fried said openly partisan political blogs are a return to the time when newspapers were openly partisan, which many were until the early 20th century.

Read more

Page Farm & Home Museum Announces Holiday Activities

Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100 ORONO — The University of Maine Page Farm and Home Museum has announced two popular annual holiday activities, a series of wreath-making workshops Nov. 27, Dec. 1 and Dec. 2, and Ye Olde Holiday Shoppe artisan and crafter sale on Saturday, Dec. 4. The public is invited to participate in wreath-making […]

Read more

Orono Village Market Study Reported

Today’s edition of the Bangor Daily News includes a news release about UMaine business and marketing professor Paul Myer and graduate student Kathy Welch embarking on a collaborative market study with merchants in downtown Orono. The object, Myer says, is to consider new ways to capitalize on the synergy between the University of Maine and […]

Read more

Socolow Paper Referenced in Slate Column

Slate columnist Jack Shafer uses research by UMaine journalism professor to counter opinions offered by former ABC journalist Ted Koppel in a Sunday Washington Post column on the current state of television journalism.  In that piece, Koppel writes that network news divisions were “loss leader(s) that permitted NBC, CBS and ABC to justify the enormous […]

Read more

Child Development Learning Center Appeals for Food

Contact: Theresa McManus, 581-2441 Children who attend the Child Development Learning Center in Merrill Hall are collecting food donations for the Black Bear Food Exchange on campus. The Exchange, located at the back of Estabrooke Hall, is a food pantry that serves the UMaine and surrounding communities. Those who would like to donate are asked […]

Read more

UMaine Grad Appointed to Ambassador Post

President Obama has appointed 1971 UMaine graduate Pamela White ambassador to The Ghana.  White is an Auburn native who earned a UMaine journalism degree before embarking on a career in public service that began with work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon.  She joined the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1978, serving in […]

Read more