Former University of Maine College of Education and Human Development faculty member Sydney Carroll Thomas has died at the age of 57. Thomas, who left UMaine in 2008, was an associate professor of counselor education and also taught in the Honors College. According to an obituary in the Bangor Daily News, Thomas joined the UMaine […]
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J. Norman Wilkinson, who taught performing arts at the University of Maine for 35 years, has died at the age of 81. Born in Liverpool, England, according to an obituary in the Bangor Daily News, Wilkinson also was an actor, playwright and Maine Masque theater director. His survivors include his wife of 54 years, Dorothy, […]
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The University of Maine College of Engineering’s Francis Crowe Society recently inducted four new members.
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University of Maine industrial ecologist and certified Life Cycle Assessment professional Anthony Halog has received a $150,000 federal grant to create a comprehensive new online database to allow researchers, scientists and industrialists to assess ecological, social and economic implications of new and emerging products, starting with wood-based biofuels.
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Playwright William Yellow Robe, a member of the UMaine English faculty, will read “Glooskape’s Children,” a play by Donna Loring, on Friday Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. The staged reading is scheduled for the Black Box Theater on the second floor of UMaine’s Class of 1944 Building.
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The application for the 2012 James Madison Fellowship is now available at the Fellowship’s website. College seniors and college graduates who intend to become secondary school teachers of American history, American government, or social studies are eligible for this Fellowship, which carries a maximum stipend of $24,000 for up to two years of graduate study […]
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Students interested in pursuing a University of Maine master’s or doctoral degree are invited to learn more at a Graduate and Professional School Fair on Wednesday, Nov. 30 from 4-6 p.m. at Stodder Hall. UMaine is home to the state’s largest graduate school and broadest array of graduate programs, including more than 70 master’s degrees, […]
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To: Members of the UMaine Community From: Janet Waldron, vice president for administration and finance Officials at the Orono-Veazie Water district, which supplies the UMaine campus, have let us know about a non-emergency issue related to that water supply. Standard testing protocols revealed that the district’s water exceeded acceptable levels of Total Trihalomethanes during the […]
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A new collaboration between the Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center and the University of Maine will preserve a unique archival collection that documents the history and traditions of Maine, other New England states and Canada’s Maritime Provinces. That collection, the entire holdings of the Northeast Archives of Folklore and History, is part of UMaine’s […]
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ORONO, Maine – The Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce announced Monday that Habib Dagher, the founding director of the University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, has been named the winner of the chamber’s Catherine Lebowitz Award for Public Service.
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