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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The University of Maine Summer Music Festival is bringing together two summer traditions – baseball and musical theater – with the new musical comedy “Johnny Baseball,” which will open Friday, Aug. 3. “Johnny Baseball” will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 3, 4, 10, 11 and at 2 p.m. on Aug, 5 and 12 […]
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A group of agricultural experts mainly from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension will lead a free, public program on sustainable farming from 3:45 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 25 at the UMaine Rogers Research Farm on Bennoch Road in Stillwater. Topics include sweet corn integrated pest management and emerging pests, crow management […]
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Two University of Maine Cooperative Extension experts will represent UMaine Extension at a public meeting Thursday in Alfred, Maine, with Kevin Concannon, U.S. Department of Agriculture undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services. UMaine Extension educators Frank Wertheim and Barbara Murphy will attend the meeting, which is sponsored by Partners for a Hunger-Free York County, […]
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University of Maine historian Katherine O’Flaherty and graduate student Rob Gee, who co-write the blog Stillwater Historians, are hosting on the blog this month History Carnival 111: Environmental History Edition, a monthly showcase of blog writing about history. The History Carnival is hosted each month at a different history blog to highlight a variety of […]
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The University of Maine is one of three hosts of BIOGEOMON, a gathering of international scientists, students and researchers who study how biogeochemical research, including monitoring, modeling and experiments, support an understanding of how chemical and physical climate change influences the environment on our planet. Around 400 people are expected to attend the conference, which […]
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Wayne Astbury, an accountant in the University of Maine’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, passed away on July 1, according to a Bangor Daily News obituary. Astbury had been a UMaine employee for 42 years and was elected a member of the National Association of Accountants in 1968. A celebration of his life will […]
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The University of Maine has named Seth Woodcock its new associate athletic director for development. Woodcock, who worked in development at Maine Medical Center for the past nine years, will assume the role as the lead major gift fundraiser for athletics at UMaine. A native of Farmington, Maine, Woodcock is a 1995 graduate of Mt. […]
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In Maine and elsewhere, the field of seaweed cultivation is experiencing increased interest from aquaculturists, harvesters, researchers and those in the business of making products from marine macroalgae. This is due to some innovative research being conducted in the region, and because Maine now has the first and only commercial kelp aquaculture operation in the […]
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University of Maine Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science George Markowsky’s tutorial on cybersecurity tools is one of the featured tutorials at WorldComp’12, an international conference held in Las Vegas for computer science, computer engineering and applied computing that is expected to attract more than 2,000 participants from all around the world. […]
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