UMaine News

Contact: David Lee, Edelman Entertainment for the History Channel, 212-642-7718 Lowe’s Home Improvement, American Express and Local Cable Affiliates Team with The History Channel Save Our History Program to Support Third Year of Innovative Educational Projects Center Leads Students in the History of the Pulp and Paper Industry NEW YORK — The History Channel today […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The Edith Marion Patch Center for Entomology, the Environment and Education at the University of Maine will host a Sunday, Sept. 17 educational forum on the compositae family of plants. Julie Beckford of Sweet Pea Perennials will lead the discussion and hands-on activities related to compositae, which […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Maine Attorney General Steven Rowe will provide a keynote talk on Tuesday, Sept. 12 when the University of Maine formally adopts its Relationship Abuse and the Workplace Policy. UMaine President Robert A. Kennedy will speak and sign the policy at 10:15 a.m. at Buchanan Alumni House. Rowe’s […]

Contact: Richard Brzozowski , 207- 780-4205 BRUNSWICK, Me. –University of Maine Cooperative Extension will sponsor the Maine Shepherd School, a two-day course with a theme of “Raising Sheep for Profit.” The course is set for Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13 and 14 in Brunswick. Mike Caskey of Minnesota

Contact: John Jemison, Jr., Extension Professor, Water Quality and Soil Science, jjemison@umext.maine.edu, 207-581-3241 OAKLAND, Me.–University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer “Sustainability for ME.,” a six-week program beginning on Wednesday Sept. 13 at Messalonskee High School in Oakland. Sessions are scheduled for 6:30-9 p.m. Wednesdays through Oct. 18. The “Sustainability for ME” course will demonstrate […]

Contact: Doug Allen, 581-3860; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Socialist-Marxist Studies Lecture Series for fall 2006 offers a schedule of controversial and thought-provoking lectures on topics ranging from the events and crises in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Bosnia and Latin and South America to the degradation of civil liberties in a post-911 […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — State Senate President Beth Edmonds (D-Freeport) will visit the University of Maine on Thursday, Sept. 14 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Edmonds will spend the day at UMaine, meeting with students, faculty members and staff members. The Distinguished […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Gov. John Baldacci and University of Maine President Robert Kennedy will greet the inaugural UMaine Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) class at at Thursday event in Orono. Scheduled for 1:30 p.m. at Buchanan Alumni House, the reception will include comments from both Baldacci and Kennedy. Several […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Drivers looking park on the University of Maine campus can access current information on vacant spaces through a new telephone service. Starting today, a recorded message at 581-INFO will provide information on where motorists should look for available spaces. “We have enough spaces to accommodate commuter student, […]

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