Comments from Sandra Butler of the UMaine social work faculty are included in a New York Times “The New Old Age” blog post about concerns faced by older gay men and women in long-term relationships. Examples include issues related to inheritance and tax laws, along with access, as a couple, to long-term health care benefits […]
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Contact Kristen Andresen at (207) 581-3742. ORONO — University of Maine Animal and Veterinary Sciences major Warren Varney of Turner, Maine; Biochemistry major Bradie Manion of Old Town, Maine; and Biological Engineering major Daniel Gerges of Yarmouth, Maine, recently learned that they had received early acceptance to Tufts University School of Medicine through the Maine […]
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Contact: Peter Fandel, 581-1835 ORONO — F. William Smullen, III, a 1962 UMaine graduate and director of National Security Studies at Syracuse University, will address the Bangor Foreign Policy Forum, Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 7:30 a.m. at the Bangor Public Library. The title of Smullen’s talk is “A Decade of Crisis and Correction.” According to […]
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A group of UMaine engineering students known as Engineers Without Borders is working with the town of Farmington to design a new recreational bridge across the Sandy River, according to a story in the Lewiston Sun Journal. Engineers Without Borders was contacted by Farmington Town Manager Richard Davis as the town was seeking to reduce […]
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A WLBZ news report highlights the work of the UMaine School of Economics Knowledge Transfer Alliance. That initiative brings UMaine resources to businesses working to get established or to expand. The news story describes the efforts of UMaine graduate student Bernardita Silva, working with a Passadumkeag business that involves the manufacture of landing nets made […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The Maine Speech-Language-Hearing Association (MSHLA) will bring its 2010 fall conference to the University of Maine Thursday Oct. 7-Saturday Oct. 9. The conference is scheduled for UMaine’s Wells Conference Center. UMaine’s Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders will host the sessions, in conjunction with MSLHA. MSLHA works […]
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The University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, along with the DeepCwind Consortium, will host the First Annual Maine Deepwater Offshore Wind Conference on Tuesday, Oct. 19, at the Point Lookout Resort and Conference Center in Northport. The event will be open to the public. The list of invitees is expected to include […]
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Contact: Todd Gabe, (207) 581-3307; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — A new report on the knowledge economies of 287 cities in the United States and Canada shows that Portland, Maine, is a “Thinking Region,” according to Todd Gabe, professor of economics at the University of Maine and one of the study’s co-authors. The […]
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Contact: Mary Rosser, 581-2445; Anne Pooler, 581-2441 ORONO — The University of Maine Reading Recovery initiative is part of a national network of 16 colleges and universities receiving $45.6 million to help improve literacy skills for an estimated 500,000 first-graders struggling with reading and writing. UMaine’s College of Education and Human Development is receiving $2.9 […]
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The NZ Resources Web site in New Zealand carries a story about new research led by Aaron Putnam of the UMaine Climate Change Institute. The research, reported in the journal “Nature Geoscience,” resolves long-standing questions about conditions that affected New Zealand glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age. UMaine Prof. George Denton is […]
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