Contact: Karel Lidral, 581-1256; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – The University of Maine’s Chamber Jazz Ensemble will present its annual spring concert — a program of rich jazz standards — on April 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Leonard and Renee Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall. The program includes great jazz classics from […]
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Contact: Ruth Hallsworth, 207-581-3196 ORONO – The myths and realities of our water supplies will be the feature presentation at the 2007 Maine Water Conference at the Augusta Civic Center on March 21. M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, professor of geography and international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, will deliver the plenary presentation on that subject. […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4115; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Page Farm and Home Museum is hosting two public events, March 23 and March 25, to acknowledge the sweetest sign of spring — maple syrup season. On March 23, Kathryn Hopkins, a UMaine Cooperative Extension horticulturalist and expert on maple trees and […]
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Contact: Louise Kirkland, 207-942-7396, 1-800-287-1485 ORONO– During Extension Living Well Week, March 11-17, University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a variety of workshops statewide, including “Parenting Through Separation and Divorce’ in Oxford County, “Home Budgeting” in Franklin and Piscataquis counties, “Creating Nutritious Low-Cost Meals” in Aroostook County, and an eating healthy session for parents […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine civil engineering students will have better access to state-of-the art laboratory equipment thanks to a $75,000 pledge from a Gray company co-founded by the son of a professor who taught at the Orono university for close to 40 years. The gift from Gorrill-Palmer Consulting […]
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Contact: Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, 581-3124; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, UMaine professor of food science and human nutrition, has been named a Senior Fulbright Specialist, and plans to spend part of a semester-long sabbatical at the University of Milan’s Department of Food Science and Nutrition in Italy studying the health benefits of blueberries. From […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some 150 diplomats, scholars and military analysts participated in a March 6-7 conference, co-sponsored by the University of Maine’s William S. Cohen Center for International Policy and Commerce and the National Defense University (NDU). The conference addressed a wide range of issues related to nuclear proliferation […]
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Contact: Bill Murphy, 581-4124; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – Problems resulting from construction employee misclassification as independent contractors are highlighted in a briefing paper released recently by the UMaine Bureau of Labor Education, titled “Stretching the Law, Stressing the State – Misclassified Workers in Maine’s Construction Industry.” According to one of the studies cited in […]
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Contact: Sarah Nelson, 581-3254 While Acadia National Park is often perceived as remote and pristine, the park’s fish, wildlife, and human visitors are vulnerable to mercury contamination that persists throughout North America. New research has documented that fish, amphibians, and even tree swallows from Acadia carry heavy burdens of mercury. Now, in a series of […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Combining two departments with complementary expertise, the University of Maine has created a new School of Economics. The new structure is intended to enhance UMaine’s ability to serve contemporary student interest and to address statewide needs. Formed by merging the Dept. of Economics and the Dept. of […]
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