UMaine News

Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100George Manlove. 581-3756 ORONO — The expression “a rare bird” has special meaning this summer at the UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum. Part of the museum’s summer exhibit includes three Nankin chickens, small ornamental birds thought to be extinct until a nesting pair was discovered in the mid-1900s on a small […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Faculty members, staff members and students from the University of Maine Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition will make a total of nine presentations at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, July 16-20. Topics will include food safety, product development and […]

Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Twenty-two area children, ages 5-10 years, are learning about foreign countries and other cultures this week during “Passport to the World Camp” at the UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum. From July 11 through July 15, the children visit the museum on the Orono campus from 9 […]

Contact: Tracey Nelson at (207) 581-3269 ORONO — University of Maine Cooperative Extension has added two new publications to its offerings:   Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 (6th ed.) The Dietary Guidelines for Americans is published jointly every five years by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA). […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt, (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — More than 50 aspiring writers are tapping their creativity and penning their thoughts at the annual Young Authors’ Camp taking place July 11-15 at the University of Maine. The students in grades 3-10 are from schools throughout the Greater Bangor area and from Wiscasset to Houlton. The […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Keynote addresses and dozens of workshops exploring strategies for connecting the varied components of reading and writing instruction will highlight the 2005 Seamless K-12 Literacy Conference and Reading Recovery Institute at the University of Maine. Taking place Aug. 1-3, the annual conference brings together the teachers, […]

Contact: Lenard Kaye, (207) 581-3444George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Binge drinking typically may not be associated with older people, but the UMaine Center on Aging says alcohol abuse among elder Mainers, particularly Downeast, is a major problem that is about to be addressed. The Center has begun a two-year study, funded by a $30,000 […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571; Roberta Laverty at (207) 581-2110 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center will host composites researchers and manufacturers from around the globe at the Third International Conference on Advanced Engineered Wood Composites in Bar Harbor, July 10 — 14. In addition to introducing the cutting […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine —- Six Maine educational leaders will lend nearly180 years of combined experience to help interested schools and communities apply the University of Maine’s Sports Done Right initiative to local sports programs. The part-time consultants will serve as liaisons to the 12 Sports Done Right pilot sites, as […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571; Laura Reed at (207) 581-3646 ORONO, Me. — University of Maine President Robert Kennedy has selected Blake James, UMaine’s senior associate athletic director, to serve as the university’s interim athletic director. James will take over for Patrick Nero, who is leaving UMaine on July 23 to become commissioner of […]