UMaine News

Contact: Donna C. Lamb, 207-564-3301 or 800-287-1491 (in Maine), dlamb@umext.maine.edu BUFFALO, N.Y.–Donna Lamb, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Educator in Piscataquis County, presented two well-received sessions during a recent national Extension conference. The National Association of County Agriculture Agents held its 90th Annual Meeting and Professional Improvement Conference July 17-21. in Buffalo, N.Y., with some 1,500 people in attendance.  Lamb’s first […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Maine and the University of Maine’s Sports Done Right initiative are leaders in efforts to reform “a sports culture run amok,” according to today’s Parade magazine, carried in major Sunday newspaper around the country and reaching more than 75 million readers. The lead story, “Who’s Killing […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Basic reading and writing are no longer sufficient for today’s high school students who must demonstrate strong literacy and critical thinking skills to meet performance-based standards in all subject areas. The University of Maine’s Aug. 4-12 Adolescent Literacy Institute offers a national model course to help […]

Contact: Joe Carr at 207-581-3571 ORONO —  Moving Matters! is a 14-part series of fact sheets is intended for use as a teaching tool by nutrition and health professionals working one-on-one with individuals. The curriculum, which teaches the importance of physical activity, uses stages-of-change theory to structure fact sheets into precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, and action/maintenance stages. […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Upward Bound students will present the results of five weeks of Pushaw Lake water quality research on Tuesday, August 2, at the University of Maine. The presentations of data and findings begin at 2 p.m. in the Memorial Union Multi-Purpose Room, located on the bottom floor […]

Contact: Caroline Tjepkema at (207) 581-3213 ORONO — Several Bangor area groups are doing their part to help protect the water quality of the Penobscot River by stenciling local storm drains. The stencils include the message “keep water clean — drains to river” and the website address www.thinkbluemaine.org, where people can go to learn more […]

Contact: Dick Brzozowski, 207-780-4205 (Portland); Lois Berg Stack, 207-581-2949 (Orono)   ORONO, Maine — Don’t let the unseasonably cool and wet weather of early summer 2005 fool you. There is still ample time to purchase, plant and establish perennials in Maine before the end of the season. Soil moisture is in good supply in nearly […]

Contact: Dee Potter (207) 834-3905 dpotter@umext.maine.edu, The Maine Grass Farmers Network at mgfn@prexar.com or visit www.umaine.edu/umext.mgfn The Maine Grass Farmers Network will hold its second annual Grazing Conference August 27 at the MOFGA’s Common Ground in Unity. The conference will feature Temple Grandin, associate professor of livestock behavior at Colorado State University and an internationally […]

Contact: Karen Cole, 581-4704, Ginger Hwalek, 581-1246, George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — More than 150 young musicians from throughout Maine and New England have been perfecting their performance skills and learning new music as they spend a week “living, breathing and thinking music” at UMaine’s annual Maine Summer Youth Music Camp. July 15 ends a […]

Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Old-time games, a home-made ice cream-making demonstration, blacksmithing, heritage garden tours and other activities from earlier times are just a few of the events scheduled July 31, as the University of Maine’s Page Farm and Home Museum hosts its annual community picnic lunch from 11 a.m. to […]