UMaine News

An unprecedented 500 people have registered for Friday’s Fifth Annual Healthy High Road Race and walk starting at 4:20 p.m. at the New Balance Recreation and Fitness Center. The event promotes fitness and raises awareness about healthy alternatives to alcohol and drug use. The UMaine Alcohol and Drug Education Office is sponsoring a 1-mile fun […]

ORONO, Maine — The public good inherent in the mission of the public university must be re-emphasized in an effort to recommit to the mutually beneficial partnership between citizens and their land-grant institutions, University of Maine President Paul Ferguson said Thursday morning at the Collins Center for the Arts in an address moments after he […]

Meredith Jones, president and CEO of the Maine Community Foundation and this year’s University of Maine Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center’s Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow, will spend Thursday, April 12 on campus for meetings with President Paul Ferguson and faculty and students to discuss student-led philanthropy and advanced research funding under way at UMaine. Jones […]

With 76 million Americans poised to turn age 65 in the coming decades, it’s time to redefine the concept of the aged and elders, as older people today are far healthier, more mobile, better educated, more active, politically aware and outspoken than earlier generations, according to Len Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center […]

A series of leadership events, academic activities, student research expositions and campuswide celebration will commemorate the inauguration of University of Maine President Paul W. Ferguson on April 19. Leadership Week, April 11-19, takes its theme from Maine’s state motto, Dirigo, which is Latin for “I lead.” The theme recognizes and celebrates the qualities of the […]

Karen G. Cole, an instructional equipment distribution clerk in Information Technologies at UMaine since 2003, died recently after battling pulmonary fibrosis, according to her obituary in the Bangor Daily News. She was born March 30, 1956, in Bangor, the daughter of Juanita Leland Ryan and Richard Ryan. Cole leaves behind two daughters, Caroline and Faith; […]

ORONO — The University of Maine School of Forest Resources Woodsmen’s Team will host the 2012 Timbersports Meet Saturday, March 31 on the Orono campus.

The Women’s Resource Center at the University of Maine, lead organization for the Maine Girls Collaborative Project, has been selected as one of just three sites nationally to pilot FabFems, a collaborative program aimed at strengthening interest regionally among middle school and high school girls in careers in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.

Curt Stager, an adjunct professor in the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, will speak Thursday at UMaine about the very long-term effects of global warming.