University of Maine women’s basketball student-athlete Liz Wood of Catlett, Virginia, has been named the America East’s 2014–15 Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Wood, the first Black Bear to receive the honor, was selected from a group of eight student-athletes in female sports. Each year following the fall, winter and spring seasons, a committee of […]
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The University of Maine Littlefield Ornamentals Trial Garden on Rangeley Road will be closed for maintenance Tuesday-Wednesday, July 14-15.
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Bob Cobb, former dean of the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development and a founder of Maine’s Sports Done Right, and Parise Rossignol, UMaine women’s basketball player, will be guests on Downtown with Rich Kimball 4-6 p.m. Thursday, July 16. The topic will be youth sports; the show airs on WZON-AM620, WKIT-HD3, […]
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Several people with ties to the University of Maine will be inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame on Aug. 8 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Inductees include the late Rudy Keeling, a Perry Award recipient. The award is named after Holy Cross legend Ronald Perry Sr.; it honors those who have achieved distinction in […]
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Hiroshima, an audio/visual installation commemorating the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, will be open to the public Aug. 6-9, from noon to 7 p.m., at IMRC, Stewart Commons. The installation will be presented by new media artists N.B. Aldrich and John Carney, a UMaine alumnus, in collaboration with artist Tomomi Adachi and Maine […]
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The Science on Tap Seminar series, sponsored by the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC), continues at the Newcastle Publick House, 6–7 p.m. on Wednesdays in July. July 15, the free public seminar, “Spying on our oceans with satellites and robots,” will be presented by Mary Jane Perry. The productivity of the oceans depends […]
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The University of Maine Alumni Association is collecting stories from UMaine veterans who served after World War II. The remembrances will be compiled in a book, comparable to the volume published in 2001 by Stephen Jacobs as a tribute to the Class of 1944. The project is led by Kyle Hadyniak, senior editorial intern with […]
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Enjoy the taste of summer fruits and vegetables all year by taking the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Preserving the Harvest workshop 2–5 p.m. Sunday, July 26, at Frinklepod Farm, 244 Log Cabin Road, Arundel. Extension Master Food Preserver volunteer Lynn Dodd will lead the workshop, which features hands-on, USDA-recommended food preservation methods, including hot […]
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Paul Mayewski and Dan Dixon are on thin ice. Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, and Dixon, a research assistant professor with CCI, are featured in the shortened version of the award-winning film “Thin Ice: The Inside Story of Climate Science,” that MPBN will broadcast at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 12. […]
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University of Maine President Susan J. Hunter and University of Maine Foundation President/CEO Jeffery Mills recently accepted a check for $300,000 from the Helen Skoufis estate. Skoufis and her husband, Peter, a member of the UMaine Class of 1941, were longtime UMaine supporters. In 1996, the Skoufises established the Helen M. and Peter J. Skoufis […]
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