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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — As the University of Maine prepares to welcome its new first-year students later this month, an informative, exciting, lively Monday Aug. 23 open house will signal the start of the 2010-2011 student recruitment and admissions cycle. Labeled “Summer Tour 2010,” the event represents a new approach to […]

Contacts: Robert White, (207) 581-3113; Rod Bushway, (207) 581- 1626; Susan Sullivan, (207) 581-3130 ORONO, Maine – The University of Maine and the University of Vermont are joining forces this fall to offer a research-based online weight management course that helps college students develop healthy eating and exercise habits. “Vtrim Online” is a one-credit, semester-long […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Andrew Mahoney at (207) 581-4158 ORONO — University of Maine athletic director Blake James has accepted an offer to return to the University of Miami, where he worked in athletic administration from 1998-2001.  UMaine’s AD since July 2005, James will leave in early September. “Blake has done an outstanding […]

Contact: Scott Wilkerson, (207) 581-3049 or scott.wilkerson@umit.maine.edu ORONO – The University of Maine Office of Facilities Management will begin early next week a multi-part project to improve stormwater management on campus and keep in compliance with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. Starting around Aug. 9, the Belgrade Spur Detention Pond will be dredged and […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Leah Pennino (LPennino@Review.com) or (508)663-5133 ORONO — The Princeton Review (http://www.princetonreview.com) has listed the University of Maine among “The Best 373 Colleges” in its annual directory of the country’s best institutions for undergraduate education.  The Princeton’s Reviews 2011 edition of its annual guide hits newsstands today.  This marks seven […]

Contact: Tom Mikotowicz (tom.mikotowicz@umit.maine.edu) ORONO — The University of Maine School of Performing Arts presents one of the most beloved theater musicals of all time, followed by an Agatha Christie murder mystery, when the first UMaine SPA Summer Music Theater Festival opens Friday, July 30. A group made up primarily of community members will perform […]

Contact: Steve Butterfield, 581-2469; George Manlove (207) 581-3756 July 28 Workshop to Help Teachers Learn to Administer Fitness Tests ORONO — Summer is traditionally considered the time when children are most physically activity, but a recent study by University of Maine physical education researchers and collaborating public school physical education teachers found that fitness may […]

Contact Kristen Grant, 207-646-1555 x115, kngrant@maine.edu ORONO — The National Sea Grant Law center is providing funding to help five other states adapt a Maine-developed informational Web site related to waterfront access issues. Maine Sea Grant, based at the University of Maine, developed the site in response to the demonstrated need for information about legal […]

Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, 581-1901; Barry Dana, 643-2595 ORONO — An authentic birchbark wigwam soon will be part of the University of Maine’s Hudson Museum Maine Indian Gallery in the Collins Center for the Arts. Former Penobscot Nation Chief and master birchbark artist Barry Dana is coordinating the building of a birchbark wigwam with children from […]