Provost Susan Hunter, Vice President for Administration and Finance Janet Waldron, and Director of Budget and Business Services Claire Stickland will present two Fiscal Year 2012 public budget forums in late March. These sessions, which will be identical, will provide preliminary information about the next fiscal year budget for interested members of the UMaine community. […]
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Prof. Jack Burt from the UMaine School of Performing Arts will present a trumpet recital on Tuesday Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall. The performance will feature music by Albinoni, Leonhard Paul (Mnozil Brass), in addition to the premiere of Music Division Chair, Beth Wiemann’s original piece for trumpet, cello and piano, […]
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They say who you know is as important as what you know. But University of Maine economist Todd Gabe has turned this slogan on its side. His research is based on the premise that what you do is a reflection of what you know. What you know is as important as how much you know. […]
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Scott W. See, Libra Professor of History at the University of Maine, has recently published a second edition of The History of Canada. This comprehensive work explores Canada’s development from the earliest period of settlement until the first decade of the twenty-first century. In addition to eleven chapters that cover political, regional, ethnic, and cultural […]
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Contact: Bob Lehnhard, (207) 581-2480; Steve Butterfield, (207) 581-2469 ORONO — University of Maine youth obesity and fitness research that began several years ago with one Maine public school and a couple of hundred students, has expanded to over 20 schools and now includes more than 3,000 students. While it is almost universally known that […]
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Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777 or Jessica.bloch@umit.maine.edu University of Maine graduate Michael Merchant is part of a new Discovery Channel reality show that takes place in South America. Discovery Channel’s “Out of the Wild: Venezuela” features nine volunteers who are dropped off and abandoned in a remote area of southern Venezuela. Armed with only basic […]
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Contact: Rebecca Holberton, (207) 581-2526 ORONO — Just half way through February, robins, historically iconic harbingers of spring, already have been spotted around the University of Maine campus and in surrounding communities. And northern cardinals, once considered only a few decades ago in Maine as “southerners from away” are now spending the winter at many […]
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Prof. Emeritus Katherine Musgrave from the UMaine Dept. of Food Science and Human Nutrition has earned selection to the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame. Musgrave and Sen. Susan Collins will be inducted during a March 19 ceremony at the University of Maine at Augusta. The Maine Federation of Business and Professional Women established the hall […]
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Contact: Habib Dagher, (207) 581-2138 or hd@umit.maine.edu The University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center has been issued a patent (US Patent #7,862,675) for a method of prestressing glued-laminated timber beams that significantly increases the strength of the wood for use in bridges and other structures. Associate Professor of civil engineering Mac Gray […]
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UMaine College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture graduate students will make a series of Friday March 18 presentations as part of the college’s graduate student research awards competition. The 20-minute presentations, which begin at 1:10 p.m. and continue until 4, are scheduled for Room 57 of Stodder Hall. Scheduled to present are UMaine students […]
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