Friday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about “Tackling Football: A Woman’s Guide to Understanding the College Game,” a new book by UMaine Prof. Sandy Caron and Mike Hodgson, a former Black Bear football player who is now associate athletic director for development. Val Ireland, creative services manager in UMaine’s Dept. of University Relations, illustrated […]
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The Bangor Daily News noted UMaine’s inclusion as a top college in two nationally recognized ranking systems. UMaine was included in “The Princeton Review’s Best 376 Colleges: 2012 Edition,” which lists only about 15 percent of the 2,500 colleges and universities in the U.S. “The Fiske Guide to Colleges” recognizes 330 institutions. UMaine was one […]
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Contact: Scott Wilkerson, 207-581-3049 or scott.wilkerson@umit.maine.edu July 21, 2011 University of Maine Facilities Management and UMaine Public Safety will work with the Orono Fire Department this week to a mock rescue exercise on the UMaine campus. The scenario deals specifically with confined-space rescue.
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The expansion of a project to bring high-speed internet to Aroostook County was the subject of a story in the Bangor Daily News. UMaine System employee Jeff Letourneau, who is based on the UMaine campus in Orono, was one of those credited with the the idea of a network known as the Three-Ring Binder. Contact: […]
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The University of Maine has merged its Dept. of Computer Science with its Dept. of Spatial Information Science and Engineering to create a School of Computing and Information Science (CIS). The new school became an official UMaine academic unit on July 1.
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ORONO — The University of Maine has received a prestigious national environmental leadership award for its achievement in promoting, researching and teaching green energy and sustainability as part of a 670-institution consortium devoted to reducing carbon emissions and aggressively promoting energy efficiency.
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Comments from UMaine Cooperative Extension food safety specialist Jason Bolton are included in a Lewiston Sun Journal story about Maine’s Good Shepherd Food Bank. As it turns 30 years old, Good Shepherd Food Bank is evolving in its work to meet the needs of Mainers. One possibility is an investment in food processing equipment for […]
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WABI television broadcast a Friday report about an event celebrating the 30th anniversary of UMaine’ Cooperative Extension’s Senior Companions program. The story includes comments from volunteer Bob Mattingly and from Ann Swain, the program’s director.
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The University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor has announced two summer exhibits opening June 24 through Sept. 24, one an exploration of early photographic processes practiced in the 1840s, and another, a national exhibit of photographs by fine art photographers from around the country, including several from Maine.
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The University of Maine’s Hudson Museum will close over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, Saturday, July 2 through Monday, July 4, and will reopen with normal hours Tuesday, July 5. The university’s Page Farm and Home Museum will open as usual Saturday, but will close for July 4. Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, (207) 581-1904; Patty […]
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