The UMaine Business Challenge, presented by Business Lending Solutions, hosted the seventh annual collegiate business plan competition March 31 at the University of Maine. This year’s winners — all UMaine students — are Patrick Breeding of Zephyrus Simulations, who won the first place-prize of $5,000; Nicholas Lajoie of IoTato, who was awarded the $10,000 innovation […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a vegetable gardening workshop twice in April in Franklin County. The workshop will be held 6–7:30 p.m. April 11, in the Wilton Town Office meeting room, and at the same time April 18, at the Jim Ditzler Memorial Public Library in New Sharon. UMaine Extension agricultural professional David […]
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Curt Meine, a senior fellow at The Aldo Leopold Foundation, will visit the University of Maine on April 9 and 10 to deliver a lecture on environmental resilience, and screen and discuss his role in the Emmy award-winning film “Greenfire.” His lecture, “Aldo Leopold and resilience in a time of rapid change,” will launch two […]
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Terry Hughes, 80, died March 10 at his home in Ft. Pierre, South Dakota. In 1974, Hughes began a joint appointment at the University of Maine in the Department of Geological Sciences (now the Department of Earth Sciences) and the Institute for Quaternary Studies (now the Climate Change Institute). His glaciological and climate research was […]
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Graduate students in University of Maine assistant research professor Joshua Stoll’s fisheries policy and management course traveled to Washington D.C. March 30. The students met with U.S. Sen. Angus King’s office, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Sustainable Fisheries Division, and the Lenfest Ocean Program. Meeting with state, federal and nongovernmental representatives showed the students […]
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Associate professor of English Laura Cowan was named the winner of the University of Maine’s 2018 Steve Gould Award. The annual award is presented to members of the UMaine community who have, by their conduct, demonstrated superior qualities of unselfishness and compassion in the course of serving UMaine and its ideals. It was created in […]
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Members of the University of Maine and surrounding communities are invited to learn about Islamic faith and culture during a week of activities, April 2–7. Islamic Awareness Week events will be held on the UMaine campus, as well as at the Islamic Center of Maine, 151 Park St. in Orono. Activities including henna tattoos, Arabic […]
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Black Bear Food Guild, the University of Maine’s community-supported agriculture (CSA) share program organized and managed by sustainable agriculture students, is in its 24th season. Full, half and quarter shares are being offered on a first-come, first-served basis for $500, $350 and $200, respectively. The 2018 season will run from mid-June through October, with weekly […]
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Alida Coates passed away March 27 at the age of 95. As administrative secretary in the University of Maine Political Science Department from 1972 to her retirement in 1989, Coates was an advocate for students and “guided seven professors during their respective terms as chairperson,” according to Ken Palmer, professor emeritus of political science who […]
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SPIFFY, the Maine Business School’s student investment club, has won first-place in a worldwide portfolio competition. The competition was part of the Quinnipiac Global Asset Management Education (GAME) VIII forum March 22–24 in New York City, in which 1,500 students from more than 160 colleges and universities had the opportunity to interact with industry leaders […]
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