UMaine News

Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, 581-1901; Patricia Henner, 581-4100 ORONO — The Hudson Museum and the Page Farm and Home Museum at the University of Maine will be closed over the holidays, from Dec. 23 to Jan. 2. Both will reopen at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 2.

Contact: Richard Grant, 581-1971; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — A team of graduate students from the UMaine Business School recently placed second in an international business plan competition held in Fredericton, New Brunswick. All international students pursuing masters of business administration degrees, the UMaine students competed against 19 other student teams composed of both graduate […]

Contact: Ali Abedi (207) 581-2231; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – UMaine has been selected as a recipient of the 2006 Supporting Friend of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Regional Activities Award. Approved by the IEEE Regional Activities Board in November, the award was established to recognize those organizations that encourage […]

Contact: Peter Jumars (207) 581-3321; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – The Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) elected UMaine School of Marine Sciences Professor Peter A. Jumars to be its Chair Elect for 2007 at its semi-annual meeting in December. The CSSP (http://www.cssp.us/) is the nation’s leading center for development of science leadership […]

Contact: Cathy Billings (207) 581-2751; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — UMaine’s new Maine Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory (MAAHL) recently received a grant of $395,205 from the State of Maine’s Marine Research Fund, administered by the Maine Technology Institute.  The award will allow MAAHL to purchase equipment that will greatly increase the lab’s capabilities […]

Contact: Roberta Laverty (207) 581-2110; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – Xuelian Zhang has been named UMaine’s first recipient of the Wood Based Composites Fellowship, established in 2006 with a gift from the Virginia Tech Foundation. Zhang, a Ph.D. student working at the AEWC Center, has completed approximately 2 years of her studies and […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Future users of the University’s of Maine’s Student Recreation Center, under construction and due to open next fall, will have the opportunity to try out some of the exercise equipment that might be available to them in the new facility. UMaine campus recreation officials will bring top-of-the-line […]

Contact: Paige Lilly, (207) 581-2665 ORONO — The new traveling exhibit extracted from the University of Maine’s William S. Cohen Papers collection, featuring facsimiles of photographs, handwritten notes, speeches and campaign memorabilia from the former congressman’s political papers, currently is on display at the Bangor Public Library through Jan. 17. The exhibit illuminates the way […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Eight University of Maine-educated engineers, including a UMaine Facilities Management project manager and the founder of a high-tech business based on his student research, will join UMaine’s prestigious Francis Crowe Society as distinguished engineers on Friday, Dec. 15. The induction is scheduled for 1 p.m. in the […]

Contact: Mary Dinsmore, Pine Tree State 4-H Foundation, P (207) 581-3327, F (207) 581-1387 ORONO, Me. –Staff members of University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s 4-H youth development program were excited to learn that their program will receive proceeds from ticket sales for the new movie, “Charlotte’s Web.” Paramount Pictures and Walden Media have agreed to […]