The Bangor Daily News had an article about a visit to the UMaine campus by United Nations hunger expert Douglass Coutts, who spoke Wednesday at Buchanan Alumni House. John Rebar, UMaine Cooperative Extension director, announced the formation of a UMaine chapter of Universities Fighting World Hunger which will be organized by M. Susan Erich, a […]
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A Sunday Oct. 2 Hauck Auditorium lobby event will highlight the opening of a new exhibition of photographs and reflections from University of Maine students who visited the Middle East in May. Those students were among a group of eight that attended a conference, “Islam and the West: A Civilized Dialogue,” in Abu Dhabi, United […]
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UMaine’s research into the area of integrated multitrophic aquaculture (IMTA) was noted in a Working Waterfront story co-written by Catherine Schmitt, the communications coordinator for the UMaine-based Maine Sea Grant. The story cited research into the relationship between mussels and salmon to influence each other’s health, which is currently being overseen by Ian Bricknell, director […]
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The website of the Amarillo Globe-News in Amarillo, Texas, mentioned UMaine’s collaboration with the Remnant Trust, an Indiana-based nonprofit organization that has a collection of about 1,500 rare texts dating back as far as the 1200s. Remnant Trust President Kris Bex said there are works are usually at five colleges or universities at any given […]
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A group of 300 University of Maine community members and others will walk to raise money and awareness for suicide prevention on Sunday, Oct 2. The 3.5 mile walk will begin at UMaine’s Fogler Library, at 2 p.m., with registration at 1 p.m. The UMaine event is part of the Out of the Darkness Community […]
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The University of Maine’s The New Writing Series is hosting poets Laura Mullen and Kathleen Ossip for public poetry readings Thursday, Sept. 22 at 4:30 p.m. in Soderberg Auditorium in Jenness Hall. Mullen is the author of the newly published “Dark Archive,” and Ossip recently published “The Cold War.” The event is free. The New […]
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UMaine’s club rugby team will open its season with a game against the University of Vermont Saturday at 11 a.m. on Lengyel Field. Twenty-two UMaine students play on the team, which won its only preseason game by a score of 38-5 over the University of Maine at Farmington.
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The University of Maine has joined 36 other college in Gig.U, a coalition of universities and communities working to bring high-speed computer networks to those institutions and communities that surround them. The group will collaborate with private entities to provide innovative, cost-effective strategies to deploy Internet at speeds several hundred times faster than what is […]
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Former UMaine professor Oskar Feichtinger died on Sept. 5 at the age 77. Born in Germany, Feichtinger immigrated to the U.S. when he was a high school student, later serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and earning a Ph.D. before joining the UMaine faculty as a statistics professor. Active in the community, Feichtinger was an […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal has a story about the Maine Public Broadcasting Network series “Sustainable Maine,” which will feature scientists from UMaine and other educational institutions around the state as they work together with fishermen and loggers. The series will show how the group seeks to balance economic growth with environmental sensitivity and local traditions […]
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