UMaine News

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 […]

Contact: Mark Hutchinson, Extension Educator, 207-832-0343 AUGUSTA — University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Compost Team will offer a workshop, “Avian Influenza Issues and Disposal Options,” on Friday, June 2 at the University of Maine in Augusta. The session is scheduled for from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. in Jewett Hall. This workshop is specifically […]

Contact: Noel March, 581-4053; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine Public Safety Director Noel March has been invited to speak at an international conference in Russia on May 19 about campus policing and security matters. He is one of two North Americans scheduled to present, along with four other speakers, all experts in university security […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Calling graduation a bridge from one point in life to another, University of Maine President Robert Kennedy urged the 2,050 members of UMaine’s Class of 2006 to use their college experience as the basis for meaningful community citizenship. “Take full advantage of your learning experiences here and […]

Contact: William H. Livingston (207) 581-2990; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – The University of Maine’s Forest Resources Programs are celebrating 100 years of professional forester graduations at a reception in the lobby and courtyard of Nutting Hall in Orono, on May 13th. UMaine’s undergraduate forestry program — the oldest, continuously accredited undergraduate forestry […]

Contact: David Munson (207) 581-3777; Gordon Hamilton (207) 581-3446 ORONO, Maine – The 14th J. Louis Agassiz Symposium of the Climate Change Institute will take place on May 11 and 12, 2006. The event will be held in the conference room facility in the Sawyer Environmental Center. Dozens of UMaine’s top researchers and their collaborators […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s four top annual faculty awards were presented at the Academic Honors Convocation earlier this afternoon. This year’s Distinguished Maine Professor is David Townsend, professor of oceanography and director of UMaine’s School of Marine Sciences. The annual award by the Alumni Association recognizes outstanding […]

Contact: George Manlove at 581-3756 ORONO – A University of Maine student has undertaken a “Dress for Success” clothing drive this month as a community service project and an effort to help students from the Penobscot Job Corps Center in Bangor get proper attire for jobs and job interviews. “The basic idea for this is […]

Contact: Nate Michaud (207) 581-4523 UNITY, Maine — Sometimes great ideas about how to keep things local come from away. That’s why Maine Rural Partners is bringing together representatives from federal, state, and local agencies, citizen groups and non-profit organizations throughout the state to hear about an approach that’s helping to revitalize rural Nebraska. Maine […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt @ (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — More than 40 states are looking to Maine as a model for steering local sports reform, but Georgia is the first to make Sports Done Right part of its official process for training community coaches. The Georgia High School Association (GHSA) recently adopted the University of […]