UMaine News

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine journalism students will be able to get the inside scoop from veteran reporters thanks to a new fund established by alumna Anne Lucey in memory of her late husband, Alan Miller, who taught journalism at UMaine for more than two decades.  The Alan Miller […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Aiming to make it easier for University of Maine students to pursue a career in construction management, the well known Brewer building firm of Nickerson & O’Day has established a scholarship in the name of its immediate past president, John F. “Jack” Kelley III. Kelley, who led […]

Contact: Joe Carr (UMaine) at (207) 581-3571; Doug Boxer-Cook (Bowdoin) at (207) 725-3964 AUGUSTA, Me. — Bowdoin College and the University of Maine today announced an innovative new engineering education partnership. The arrangement, announced in Augusta by Maine Gov. John Baldacci, creates a five-year program of study, with the first three years at Bowdoin. Students […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — In the years during and immediately following World War II, organized labor in Maine was at its peak, with upward of 95,000 men and women — nearly 37 percent of the state’s nonagricultural workforce — resoundingly supporting the war effort by helping build “the arsenal of democracy,” […]

Contact: Richard Brzozowski, 207-780-4205 TLAND, Me. — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will present workshops for sheep and goat producers at locations around Maine this spring and summer. Participants will learn how to perform a FAMACHA test, a relatively new on-farm technique to determine the degree of internal parasite infestation in sheep and goats. The […]

Contact: Amy Witt, 207-780-4205 or 800-287-1471 (in Maine) PORTLAND, Me. — Ken Canfield, district forester with the Maine Forest Service, will lead a tree tour of the historic and beautiful Evergreen Cemetery in Portland, on Friday June 8 from 10 a.m. to noon. The tour is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is […]

Contact: Kristen Whiting-Grant, 207-646-1555 x115 ORONO–From global climate change to increasing population pressure, Maine’s beaches will confront many changes in the coming decades. Public officials, coastal property owners, tourists and businesses each have a different interest in the beach, but a common desire for sustaining these valuable natural resources. Ways to achieve this common goal, […]

Contact: Joseph E. Phaneuf, Executive Director, jphaneuf@northernlogger.com (The following is a Northeastern Loggers’ Association press release.) Bangor, ME – The Northeastern Loggers’ Association (NELA) recently honored the UMaine Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center of Orono, ME as the recipient of its 2007 Outstanding Use of Wood award. NELA President John Caveney honored the AEWC Center […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Prof. Karl Kreutz of the University of Maine’s Dept. of Earth Sciences and Climate Change Institute will present a lecture, “Climate Change in Maine: Past, Present and Future,” on Friday May 25 at UMaine. Kreutz’ 12 noon lecture is set for UMaine’s Page Farm and Home Museum, […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Due to a production error, 36 Class of 2007 University of Maine graduates were not properly recognized in the May 12 Commencement printed program. Students from various programs in UMaine’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, all 36 graduated with honors. The program failed to note that […]