UMaine News

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Studying wasn’t the only activity that kept Thomas Laskey busy as a mechanical engineering major at the University of Maine more than 50 years ago. Growing up in Old Town, one of eight children whose father worked at the pulp mill in the Great Works area, he […]

Contact: David Munson, 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — The UMaine concrete canoe team earned top honors for the second year in a row at the American Society of Civil Engineers New England Regional Concrete Canoe Contest. Facing 12 teams from colleges and universities across New England, the UMaine team and their latest canoe ranked first overall […]

Contact: Jon Ippolito, 581-4477; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — Still Water, a research and development arm of the University of Maine New Media Department, has received a $300,000 research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study the preservation of digital art in a world of changing technologies. The grant, the largest […]

Contact: Frederic Beaudry, UMaine Dept. of Wildlife Ecology,(207) 581-2895; Joe Carr, Dept. of University Relations, (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A Sunday May 6 University of Maine ceremony will honor the memory of former UMaine student David Veverka, killed in Iraq last year while serving in the Army National Guard. The May 6 event, scheduled for […]

Contact: Len Kaye, (207) 581-3483; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — The UMaine Center on Aging has received a $150,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to launch a first-in-the-nation pharmaceuticals-return program to help keep tons of medications out of rivers, streams and groundwater. According to the EPA, the UMaine pilot will start, […]

Contact: Peg Cruikshank, (207) 581-1228; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — Margaret “Peg” Cruikshank, lecturer in women’s studies and faculty associate of the Center on Aging, has been awarded a senior specialist Fulbright grant for fall 2007. Cruikshank will conduct aging research on Canadian women at the Centre on Aging at the University of […]

Contact: Alan Parks at (207) 581-1236; Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — UMaine undergraduate and graduate students will present their innovative work on Tuesday, May 1 during the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies’ annual year-end ceremony. Students, who have completed concentrations in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies (IDS) will discuss and […]

Contact: Richard Brzozowski, 800-287-1471 FAIRFIELD, Me. — The first of University of Maine Cooperative Extension Goat Enterprise Farm Tours will take place on Saturday, April 28 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Pirri family’s Sherman Farm, located off of Route 139 (Norridgwock Road) at 56 Sherman Lane in Fairfield (e-mail shermanfarmgoat@aol.com). This small, licensed […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — John Mahon, the John M. Murphy Chair of International Business Policy and Strategy at the University of Maine, has been appointed dean of UMaine’s College of Business, Public Policy and Health, effective July 1. The appointment is subject to ratification by the University of Maine System Board […]

Contact: Wendy Haehnel, 581-1926; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The Maine Business School at the University of Maine recently presented its 2007 Achievement in Business Award to UMaine alum John Coleman, co-founder and CEO of The VIA Group advertising agency in Portland. The award is given annually to an individual who demonstrates leadership and outstanding […]