UMaine News

Contact: Corie Washow, (207) 353-5550 or 1-800-287-1458, or corie.washow@umaine.edu ORONO — A national program aimed at helping farmers, farm workers and farm family members with chronic health conditions or disabilities continue to farm successfully and live independently is now available in Maine through the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Maine AgrAbility, a collaboration between UMaine, […]

Contact Catherine Schmitt (207) 581-1434, catherine.schmitt@umit.maine.edu HOLDEN – The restoration of Sedgeunkedunk Stream will be discussed and celebrated on Friday, Sept. 17, at Fields Pond Audubon Center. The collaborative, community-based project, including removal of two dams and construction of a natural rock-ramp fishway, is serving as a model for other small-scale stream restoration efforts throughout […]

Oakland Elementary School teacher Shelley Moody has been named Maine’s 2011 Teacher of the Year.  State Education Commissioner Angela Faherty presented the award Friday at Williams Elementary School, where Moody teaches third and fourth grade.  She earned a master’s degree in literacy from UMaine.

President Obama has announced his intention to nominate UMaine graduate Pamela Ann White Ambassador to the republic of The Gambia.  White, a Senior Foreign Service officer with the rank of Career Minister, has served since 2008 as USAID Mission Director in Liberia.  She earned a journalism degree from UMaine.

UMaine political science professor Amy Fried commented in a Friday Maine Public Radio report about issues involving Maine gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage.  As first reported by the MaineToday Media group, there are questions about LePage’s wife’s residency in Maine and Florida, and associated property tax issues.  Fried says the story “could have an impact” on […]

Shelly Moody, who earned a master’s degree at UMaine, has been named the 2011 Maine Teacher of the Year, MPBN reports. A teacher at Williams Elementary School in Oakland, Moody has a master’s in literacy. She will compete for 2011 National Teacher of the Year, with the winner to be announced next April at the […]

Gov. John Baldacci announced the Department of Energy has awarded Ocean Renewable Power Co. a $10 million grant to fund a commercial-scale tidal energy development project in Cobscook Bay near Eastport, according to Smart Energy News. As a partner in the project, UMaine researchers are supervising the program, which incorporates state-of-the-art visual and acoustic monitoring […]

UMaine football player Steven Barker, who is back on the field after receiving a medical hardship waiver from the NCAA for a sixth season of athletic eligibility, is profiled as the Black Bears enter Saturday’s 1 p.m. game against Monmouth in West Long Branch, N.J.

Maine Independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler could be trouble as the campaign heats up, UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer told the Lewiston Sun Journal in a story Friday about Cutler’s lagging poll numbers in the Maine governor’s race. Brewer also said Cutler’s struggles could mean positive strides for Democratic candidate Libby Mitchell, who was 14 […]