UMaine News

Contact: Catherine Schmitt, 207-581-1434; Kristen Whiting-Grant, 207-646-1555, ext. 115 ORONO, Me. – People forced off fishing docks in Alabama. Waiting lists for moorings in Massachusetts. Public paths to the beach blocked in California. Commercial waterfronts eclipsed by private residences in Maine. Coasts transformed by condominiums in North Carolina. Marinas and boat ramps crowded in Florida. […]

Contact: Hudson Museum, 581-1901 ORONO — Two new exhibits on the Maine north woods wilderness and Mount Katahdin open May 31 at the University of Maine’s Hudson Museum. “Wildness within, wildness without,” features a photographic exploration of Maine’s Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail with images by prize-winning photographer Bridget Besaw, a former Bangor Daily News photographer. A collection […]

Contact: Owen Maurais, 581-3651; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The Penobscot River Educational Partnership (PREP), which includes the UMaine College of Education and Human Development, has received a $100,000 state grant to help area school districts operate more efficiently. Owen Maurais, executive director of PREP, says the Maine Municipal Bond Bank “Credit Quality Improvement Grant” […]

Contact: Bob Potts, Marketing & Creative Services Manager, (207) 581-2586 ORONO, ME–The University of Maine Alumni Association is pleased to announce that Justin Zang, class of 2010, is the winner of the 2007 Alumni Association tuition raffle.  The UMaine Alumni Association sponsors the raffle in support of the many programs and services the organization provides […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — With a total of approximately 11,000 family members andfriends looking on, the University of Maine’s Class of 2007 graduatedtoday in a pair of ceremonies inside UMaine’s Alfond Arena.  Some1,958 people received UMaine degrees at the university’s 205thcommencement ceremony, with 298 of them earning graduate degrees, 33 atthe […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Amy Kirk of Orono has been selected as the top graduating senior in the University of Maine College of Business, Public Policy and Health. She will carry the college’s banner into UMaine’s Alfond Arena at the beginning of the university’s Saturday, May 12 commencement ceremony. Kirk, who […]

Contact: Mark Anderson (207) 581-3198; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — The Morris K. Udall Foundation has named UMaine student Ben Wasserman as a recipient of the prestigious Udall Scholarship in recognition of his commitment to environmental study. One of only 80 college students to receive the award nationwide, Wasserman is the second UMaine […]

Contact: Contact: Maj. James C. Moreno, Enrollment Officer, University of Maine Army ROTC, Room 112, Armory, (207) 581-1125 ORONO — The University of Maine Army ROTC’s Black Bear Battalion will hold its Spring Commissioning Ceremony on May 11 to commission Heather Adams of Plymouth, Mass.; Christopher Byrnes of Enfield, Conn.; Jacob Flagg of Winterport, Maine; […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Barbara Vittum of Bucksport has been selected as the graduating senior to represent the University of Maine Division of Lifelong Learning at UMaine’s Saturday, May 12 commencement. She will carry the division’s banner Alfond Arena at the beginning of the ceremony. Vittum, who will receive a psychology […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Benjamin Briggs of Mt. Desert has been selected as the top graduating senior in the University of Maine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He will carry the college’s banner into UMaine’s Alfond Arena at the beginning of the university’s Saturday, May 12 commencement ceremony. Briggs, who […]