UMaine News

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571, joe.carr@umit.maine.edu To arrange interviews with Steve Abbott, contact Laura Reed at (207) 581-3646 ORONO — University of Maine President Robert Kennedy announced today that Steve Abbott has agreed to accept a two-year appointment as UMaine’s athletic director. Abbott has served as UMaine’s interim athletic director since last August.  Over […]

Provost Susan Hunter, Vice President for Administration and Finance Janet Waldron, and Director of Budget and Business Services Claire Stickland will present two Fiscal Year 2012 public budget forums this week.  These sessions, which will be identical, will provide preliminary information about the next fiscal year budget for interested members of the UMaine community.  The […]

University of Maine Museum of Art news release.  Images are available upon request (kathryn.jovanelli@umit.maine.edu) SHADOW PLAY:  Works by Brian Shure Brian Shure exhibits a series of realist landscapes and cityscapes rendered primarily in ink on paper. The subjects of these works are locations in Japan, Italy, the United States and China. The bustle of activity […]

UMaine’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) will present a workshop “ORSP 201: Compliance Part 1,” Wednesday April 13 from 9-10:30 a.m. in Soderberg Lecture Hall, Jenness Hall.  Designed for anyone who conducts or manages extramurally funded research programs, the workshop will provide investigators with an overview of federal regulations that may apply to […]

UMaine horticulture students and faculty members are planning the second annual Black Bear Beauties Plant Sale on May 6 and 7 from 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. each day.  Featuring hardy varieties that can withstand Maine weather conditions, the sale is scheduled for the Lyle E. Littlefield Gardens.  Plants are grown by UMaine students and faculty members […]

Michael Eckardt, UMaine vice president for research, has announced the recipients of the 2009 Regular Faculty Research Awards and the Scholarly Materials and Equipment Awards.  Recipients are selected based on recommendations by the Faculty Research Funds Committee.  Funds for this program are provided by the Vice President for Research (in part, from the Coe, Somers, […]

Michael Eckardt, UMaine vice president for research, has announced the recipients of the 2011 Summer Faculty Research Awards.  Recipients are selected based on recommendations by the Faculty Research Funds Committee.  The Faculty Research Funds Program is part of a broader investment strategy designed to assist faculty and encourage research and other creative achievements. Stephen Coghlan, […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Producers from “Schooled,” a New England Sports Network (NESN) college quiz show under development, are looking for students to represent UMaine in competition against seven other New England colleges and universities. Current UMaine first-year students, sophomores and juniors are eligible.  Open casting sessions are scheduled for Wednesday […]

Contact: Brenda Gammon, 356-1172 ORONO — The UMaine Women’s Hockey Team is participating in a broomball game Saturday, March 19 at Alfond Ice Arena with the Bangor area Third Watch Hockey to raise funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The ball drops 2 p.m. Third Watch Hockey is composed of public service people from the Bangor […]

Contact: Kathryn Jovanelli, (207) 561-3350 or kathryn.jovanelli@umit.maine.edu The University of Maine Museum of Art has two events planned this week. The first, which is part of the museum’s Art@Noon program, will take place Thursday, March 17, with UMMA education coordinator Gina Platt giving a tour and discussing the exhibition “New York, New York: Photographs from […]