UMaine News

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine is accepting nominations for the Barbara Hikel Retiree Award.  This honor, named for a former exemplary UMaine employee who remained connected to the university for years after retirement, is given annually to a UMaine retiree who provides extraordinary volunteer service to UMaine. “Retirees […]

Contact: Erin Lennon, 581-1786 The school year may be half over, but the Black Bear Mentors Program is gearing up for another semester of community service, inspiration, motivation, fun, and yet more introductions. The Black Bear Mentoring program enriches the lives of area children from a variety of households ranging from those whose circumstances may […]

Justina DeMott, (207) 581-1790 or justina.demott@umit.maine.edu After a disappointing couple of years in snowfall and weather conditions, the UMaine Office of Campus Activities and Student Engagement is taking advantage of more traditional winter weather and is planning for Winter Carnival 2011. Scheduled activities for the Saturday, Feb. 12 event include an ice-skating rink, a half-pipe […]

UMaine graduate Ahsley Underwood, a Cony High School graduate from Benton who starred on the Black Bear basketball team while pursuing her UMaine nursing degree, is at contestant on the next season of the CBS television program “Survivor.”  Filmed in Nicaragua, “Survivor: Redemption Island” premieres on Wednesday Feb. 16 at 8 p.m.  In an online […]

Contact: Sarah J. Nelson (207) 581-3454 or sarah.nelson@umit.maine.edu The University of Maine is offering students a chance to gain training and service in large landscape conservation through a new internship opportunity. The Acadian Internship in Regional Conservation and Stewardship is a 6-week summer course and internship program with the goals of training students, providing hands-on […]

ORONO — Members of the UMaine and surrounding communities are invited to join Maine Gov. Paul LePage and U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins today at 2 p.m. in the Collins Center for the Arts to honor and welcome home from the Middle East 152 Maine Army National Guard members of the Brewer-based Company […]

Contact: Lauren Wagner, (207) 581-1796 ORONO—The University of Maine Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism, the Office of Multicultural Programs, and UMaine Athletics will present a Martin Luther King Jr. Diversity Day event and activities Jan. 17 from 1-4 p.m. at the Bangor Mall. Students in grades 3-5 and their parents are invited to attend. […]

Barry Eager, a 32-year UMaine staff member who worked most recently as a Memorial Union custodian, died on Sunday at the age of 49.  A long-time Orono resident, Eager had suffered from esophageal cancer.  “Barry was a great friend to all of us in the UMaine community,” says Robert Dana, UMaine’s vice president for student affairs […]

An air conditioning installation project is underway in UMaine’s Fogler Library.  This effort, supported by a bond approved by Maine voters, will continue through late spring.  To keep distractions to a minimum, the most disruptive work will occur when the library is closed and/or during semester breaks.  Library users will notice signs designed to assist […]

Contact: Mark Brewer, (207) 581-1863 ORONO — Republican Senator Susan Collins is being largely lauded for her support of the pending repeal of the controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on gays and lesbians serving in the nation’s armed forces, but will there be a price for her break with the GOP party faithful? Although […]