UMaine News

Contact: Timoth Sylvia, 299-6250; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – Stuck with tons of furniture, electronic equipment, appliances, clothing and food left in dormitories when nearly 4,000 students vacated campus housing in mid-May, UMaine Property Management is hoping a two-day yard sale May 26-27 will help reduce the refuse to be donated to charity or trashed. […]

Contact: Rory Eckardt, (207) 949-4401; William Sulinski, 866-6562; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Two UMaine business students who have started their own businesses through the university’s Target Technology Innovation Center received $5,000 seed grants from the Portland-based Libra Future Fund earlier this month. Rory Eckardt of Orono, beginning his third semester in the Maine Business […]

Contact: Patty Henner, (207) 581-4100; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum will open a new gallery and an exhibit on haying in Maine on Saturday, June 3 at 2 p.m. “It’s Haying Time – Haying in Maine, 1865-1940” focuses on the daily details and tools of the small farm […]

Contact: Kim McKeage, 581-1989; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine marketing Professor Kim McKeage knows there’s a lot more going on in retailing than stocking shelves and making change. A former chain store manager, McKeage is trying to impart that notion to Maine Business School students through a special retail management class, possibly the only […]

Contact: Johanna Clift (207) 474-9622, 1-800-287-1495 (in Maine) SKOWHEGAN

Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — How many frustrated parents have asked their teen-agers, “What in the world were you thinking?” Well, the kids probably weren’t thinking, at least not in the way adults reason. They might not have the capacity, according to cognitive neuroscientist Herbert J. Weingartner, Shibles Distinguished Visiting Professor […]

Contact: Shannon E. Martin at (207) 581-1281 or Sundari Pai at (207) 581-1939 ORONO–On Wednesday May 17 more than 100 students and advisors met at the University of Maine for the 13th Annual Maine Center for Student Journalism Newspaper Contest and Conference. Entrees from a dozen high schools representing all areas of the state competed […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Elaine L. Clark, Esq., of Cumberland, has joined the University of Maine as Associate Vice President for Administration and Finance. Since 1998, Clark has served as director of the State of Maine Bureau of General Services, where she oversaw construction of facilities for the executive and judicial […]

Contact: Joe Carr at 581-3571 SUMMER ART CAMP June 19 — August 11, 2005 Get out of the heat and into the museum for some cool summer fun as 2006 marks the 8th Annual Summer Art Camp! Taught by professional art instructors in small groups, the tradition of an intensive but exciting art experience will […]

Contact: Fred Schlutt, Executive Director 4-H Foundation, (207) 581- 1162 ORONO — Robert Spear, former Maine Commissioner of Agriculture, has recently been named a trustee of the Pine Tree State 4-H Foundation. Spear is a third generation dairy and vegetable farmer who lives in Nobleboro with his wife, Janet. He was a state representative for […]