Contact: Alan Davenport, (207) 581-1341 ORONO — SkyLase laser system is returning to UMaine’s Jordan Planetarium for school vacation week with a variety of rock, holiday and storytelling treats, all illustrated with laser animation and sweeping patterns Feb. 16-26. Music lovers can enjoy popular rock favorites and star legend tales on the planetarium’s acoustically tuned […]
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The Portland Press Herald has a column about the book “Muskrat Stew and Other Tales of a Penobscot Life: The Life Story of Fred Ranco,” which was published in 2007 by the UMaine-based Maine Folklife Center. Ranco was a member of the Penobscot tribe who served in World War II and the Korean War. The […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about Stu Haskell, former UMaine athletic director, who will receive Friday night the Founders Medal from the Hockey East conference. Haskell served as the Hockey East commissioner for five years. Since his retirement in 1997, Haskell has written The Maine Book, which covers Maine athletics from 1881 to […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal reports UMaine’s 4-H Camp and Learning Center in Bryant Pond has received an anonymous $69,000 donation that will be used to build nine new bunkhouses over the next few years. Oxford County Cooperative Extension Educator Susan Jennings said most of the bunkhouses will be built by students in the building trade […]
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UMaine and the University of Maine Foundation are working with the Bangor and Orono land trusts to conserve 2,738 acres of land in the Bangor-Alton area, according to the Bangor Daily News. This newest addition to the Caribou-Penjajawoc Lands Project protects and connects land parcels ranging from 43 to 1,100 acres, while also raising $1.2 […]
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Contact: Kathy Hopkins (207) 474-9622 (Skowhegan), Donna Coffin, (207) 564-3301 (Dover Foxcroft) ORONO — Warm days and cold nights this time of the year can wreak havoc on roofs, when ice dams form around the edge causing rooftop meltwater to back up and leak into attics or down interior walls. Two University of Maine Cooperative […]
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Contact: Andrea Gifford (207) 581-4031 or andrea.gifford@umit.maine.edu The University of Maine’s Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism has been selected as a finalist in the Newman’s Own Foundation Campus Community Service Challenge, a program conducted in affiliated with the America East conference. The Bodwell Center, which is one of nine nonprofits selected as finalists from […]
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Contact: William Murphy (william.murphy@umit.maine.edu) ORONO – The Bureau of Labor Education at the University of Maine has issued a six page briefing paper discussing some of the pitfalls of “right-to-work” legislation, currently being proposed in the Maine State Legislature. As a public policy analysis, the paper discusses the nature and purpose of right-to-work laws, stating […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried a column by Kate Yerxa, nutrition educator at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, about community supported agricultural farm share opportunities. She explains that winter is the time to begin researching farms that sell shares to the community and how to determine which produce options make sense for families.
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Bruce Sidell, UMaine professor and founding director of the university’s School of Marine Sciences, died on Tuesday at the age of 62. Sidell’s professional accomplishments included extensive research in Antarctica where a peninsula known as the “Sidell Spur” bears his name. “Bruce Sidell was an exemplary faculty member, mentoring and inspiring countless students while contributing […]
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