UMaine News

Contact: Lauren Swett (207) 581-2185; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — More than 50 of Maine’s top engineering firms, engineering schools, government agencies and industries will be on hand on Saturday, March 4, at the UMaine Field House in Orono for the 2006 Engineering Expo. The event will feature a variety of engineering-related demonstrations […]

Contact: Michael Robbins (207) 581-2051; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – Psychology professors Merrill Elias, Michael Robbins, and Penelope Elias are continuing their study of the relationship between high blood pressure and cognitive skills thanks to a $680,619 grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The project’s latest manifestation will […]

Contact: Kathleen March, 581-2088; Lyn Dexter, 581-1349; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — More than 90 UMaine students, faculty and employees are dedicating their spring break vacations to doing charitable volunteer work up and down the East Coast and in Central America this year. It is the largest representation from UMaine since the Alternative Spring Break […]

Contact: Susan White (207) 581-1442; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – After more than 25 years in Coburn Hall, the Maine Sea Grant College Program has moved to building 6 in York Complex (formerly York Village). The new address is: 5784 York Complex. All phone numbers and e-mail addresses of staff will remain the […]

Contact: Ann Smith, 581-2319; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The snow is beginning to fall as cold January air swirls inside the University of Maine’s new “Access Van” when driver Matt Jackins lowers the hydraulic wheelchair ramp for student Svetlana Miljkovic outside Gannett Hall. Once “Lana” Miljkovic wheels into the van and the doors close, […]

Contact: Laura Wilson, 800-870-7270 (in Maine) or 207-581-2971 LINCOLNVILLE–UMaine Cooperative Extension

Contact: Jose Cordero, 581-1425, George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – James Varner, president of the Greater Bangor NAACP, will bethe Black History Month dinner speaker on Friday, Feb. 24 from 6-8 atStodder Commons. The previously scheduled speaker, James Wallace, professor of highereducation leadership at Eastern Illinois University, was unable to makethe engagement, according to Jose Cordero, […]

Contact: Chris Frank, 866-6521; Debbie Neuman, 866-6500 ORONO — UMaine graduate and president of Intelligent SpatialTechnologies (iST) Chris Frank recently received the Small BusinessAdministration’s prestigious Maine Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awardfor his innovative “iPointer,” a digital tour guide product his companyis developing. The device gives visiting users information about landmarks by simply pointing at […]

Contact: Cindy Thomas, (207) 581-3072, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The intensified special topics class the University of Mainetraditionally designs around the three-day Camden Conference has grownso popular after nine years that it now is filling up almost as fast asword gets out about registration. This year’s course, structured around the Feb. 24-26 conference,focuses […]

Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 Music professor Stuart Marrs, in conjunction with the UMaine Office ofResearch and Economic Development, recently completed a uniquerecording project that could become a novel new business venture –interactive DVD tutorials for classical instruments. Marrs, chair of the music division in the School of Performing Arts,collaborated with staff in the […]