Editor’s note: University of Maine assistant track and field coach and alum Viktoriya Rybalko placed 20th out of 32 competitors in the preliminary round of the long jump at the London Olympics. Rybalko, representing her native Ukraine, leaped 6.29 meters that put her 10th in her group and 20th overall for the preliminary round. The […]
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Members of the campus community, current and former students, and representatives from the Maine food industry are invited to join a celebration for Alfred Bushway, Professor of Food Science, who is retiring after 34 years of service to the University of Maine. The dinner will be held on Wednesday, August 29th, 2012, from 5:00 until […]
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Joseph Hunt, a third-shift custodian II on campus, died Aug. 3 at a Bangor hospital after a short illness. He was 57. Hunt had been a member of the UMaine community since 2008. According to his obituary, he requested there be no public service. More information is online. Contact: Margaret Nagle, (207) 581-3745
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Several Hall of Fame coaches, including former Mississippi and Louisiana State coach Van Chancellor, and other familiar names will participate in the UMaine women’s basketball team’s first Coaches Clinic at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16. Chancellor also guided the Houston Comets to four WNBA championships and the U.S. national team to an Olympic gold […]
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The Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium, a six-week event that has brought eight internationally known sculptors to the University of Maine campus in order to create works of public art for spaces in Bangor, Old Town and Orono, will hold an artist talk each Thursday, starting Aug. 2, during symposium. The talks are free and open […]
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University of Maine Forest Bioproducts Research Institute faculty members David Neivandt and Douglas Gardner will accompany 10 undergraduate students from across the country on a weeklong trip to Chile as part of a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF REU) program, a 10-week summer research experience based at UMaine and funded by the […]
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University of Maine Climate Change Institute researchers Aaron Putnam and Toby Koffman are among those featured in a video being shown at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City about how a new technique called surface exposure dating can help them analyze how the climate has changed over time. The video “Shrinking […]
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Charles Slavin, dean of the University of Maine Honors College and an associate professor of mathematics, died unexpectedly this morning in his Orono home. He was 58. Slavin joined the UMaine mathematics faculty Sept. 1, 1984. He was named director of the Honors Program in 1997. Among the many achievements during his tenure as director […]
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Jorg Imorger, the director of the Centre for Water Research at the University of Western Australia, will give a University of Maine Correll Presidential Lecture Series keynote address at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 3 in Wells Conference Center. The talk is free and open to the public. Imorger’s talk, “Building Resilience: Recognizing There is […]
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University of Maine senior Shirley Ladd from Barnstead, N.H., died July 28 from injuries she sustained earlier that day while hiking in Acadia National Park. She was 22. Ladd was a psychology major with a minor in business administration who worked in the New Balance Student Recreation Center on campus, most recently as a student […]
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