Contacts: Laura Lindenfeld, 581-1843; Gisela Hoecherl-Alden, 581-2081; George Manlove, 591-3756 ORONO – The University of Maine’s “Project Opportunity,” a five-year government funded initiative to improve and update English language teacher training for current and future school teachers in Maine, has received $300,000 in third-year funding for 2009-2010. The project, in partnership with the Maine State […]

Contact: Kathleen McIntyre, 581-1541 ORONO — Many of us have likely driven past a number of Maine’s private estates, parks, gardens, cemeteries, golf courses and campuses without really understanding the story behind them, or the extensive efforts on the part of a landscape designer and the vision of one of the state’s renowned benefactors that […]

Contact: Kristen Andresen at 581-3742 or kristen.andresen@umit.maine.edu ORONO — Portland artist Joe Kievitt is creating a large-scale installation in the Collins Center for the Arts as part of Maine’s Percent for Art program. The program sets aside one percent of the construction costs in public buildings to purchase works of art. Kievitt’s installation, a geometric […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Angus King, Maine’s two-term governor first elected in 1994, will be the keynote speaker at a Thursday Sept. 24 event kicking off Mane’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI). The talk, “Data-Driven Policy: the Role of Universities in Creating a Sustainable Maine,” is scheduled for 1 p.m. in Wells […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Maine State Sen. Richard Rosen will visit the University of Maine on Tuesday, Oct. 1 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Rosen will spend the day at UMaine, meeting with students, faculty members and staff members.  A Bucksport resident, […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Celebration of Darwin class and lecture series continues on Monday Sept. 21 and Wednesday, Sept. 23 with talks by UMaine biological science professor Michael Kinnison.  He will discuss “Natural Selection” on Monday and “Unnatural Selection” on Wednesday. Each class meeting in the semester-long […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Celebration of Darwin class and lecture series continues on Monday, Sept. 14 with a talk by UMaine history professor Howard Segal, “Darwinism, Religion and Social Darwinism in the 19th Century.” Each class meeting in the semester-long series is also open to members of […]