UMaine News

Contact: Andy Mauery, 299-0282Susan Camp, 570-1076 ORONO — Think sculpture is built to last? Think again. University of Maine students will explore the use of sustainable — and, in many cases, biodegradable — materials in the first Sustainable Sculpture class.     Trash will become treasure. Paper sculptures made with renewable abaca pulp might include seeds […]

Contact: Mick Peterson (207) 581-2129; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 (Media Advisory: Public interest in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes has been heightened considerably because of the possibility that it might produce a Triple Crown winner. Prof. Mick Peterson, a leading expert in racing biomechanics and track-related injuries, is available to talk with the media about his valuable […]

Contact: Laura Brothers (207) 581-1998; Joseph Kelley (207) 581-2162; Daniel Belknap (207) 581-2159; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — Researchers at the University of Maine have questioned the wisdom of a proposal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a series of breakwaters near the shore of a Saco beach community to mitigate […]

Contact: Jennifer Crittenden, (207) 262-7920; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The first-in-the-nation pharmaceuticals mail-back program launched this summer by the University of Maine’s Center on Aging in conjunction with 18 partners is being heralded as an early success. The public is still just learning about the availability of the new Safe Medicine Disposal for ME […]

Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — When the University of Maine’s nearly 4,000 residence hall students moved out for the summer this month, they left behind tons of furniture, electronic equipment, appliances, clothing and other miscellaneous items. Rather than take it to landfills or burn it, UMaine hopes to recycle it at this year’s […]

Contact: Mohamad Musavi, 581-2243; Bruce Segee, 581-2212; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — More than 600 of Maine’s middle school students will converge on the University of Maine Friday, May 30, for a day of pushing the boundaries of their laptop computer skills. As part of the fifth annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative Student Technology […]

Contact: Steve Evans, (207) 581-3818; Joe Carr, (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The 1970s were a tumultuous time in American culture — and the poetry of the decade distills that to its most raw form. As part of its “decades” conference series, The National Poetry Foundation at the University of Maine will bring together an international […]

Contact: Laurie Hicks, (207) 561-3350; Joe Carr, (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Currently on exhibit in the Lord Hall Gallery through June 16, “Art of the 70s” is a collaboration of the UMaine Department of Art, the University of Maine Museum of Art and the National Poetry Foundation that features some of the defining art from […]

Contact: Bob Potts, Alumni Programs & Marketing, (207) 581-1149 / 1 (800) 934-2586 ORONO, ME – The University of Maine Alumni Association (UMAA)has announced the recipients of its 2008 Alumni Awards. They are as follows: Alumni Career Award (UMAA’s highest honor): Dorothea Butler Marsden ’50, Deland, Florida (Children’s educator, researcher and creator of educational assessment […]

Contact: Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — Margaret Estapa, a doctoral student in oceanography at the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, was recently awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship. The fellowship, available to to master’s or doctoral students in Earth science, heliophysics, planetary science and astrophysics, is awarded on the merits […]