The annual Graduate School picnic is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 14 from 4-6 p.m. on the Stodder Hall patio. Graduate students with their families, faculty members and support personnel are all invited to attend. The rain date is Thursday, Sept. 15
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U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will be at the University of Maine on Thursday, Aug. 18 from approximately 1:45-3:15 p.m. Salazar, a former Democratic U.S. Senator from Colorado who has been a member of the Obama cabinet since January, 2009, will be in Maine for a series of meetings arranged by Sen. Susan […]
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Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will visit UMaine on Thursday Aug. 18, one of several stops that day to be hosted by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins. Salazar will visit the Advanced Structures and Composites Center to learn more about UMaine-led research into technology development for deepwater offshore wind power initiatives. A brief Associated Press […]
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WLBZ television broadcast a Thursday story about UMaine’s inclusion on Princeton Review’s Green Honor Roll. The story included interviews with UMaine engineers Stewart Harvey and Carolyn McDonough, along with sustainability coordinator Laurie Lommler. Princeton Review was one of three national guidebooks to recognize UMaine for quality and value during the past several days. The Green […]
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Generations of University of Maine art students benefited from the inspiration of legendary art professor Vincent Hartgen, a UMaine faculty member for virtually the entire second half of the 20th century. Through a partnership involving UMaine and alums Kelly and Jane Littlefield of Winter Harbor, that legacy will extend to students of the future. The […]
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Warren Riess of the UMaine history and marine science faculty has been elected president of the North American Society for Oceanic History. The organization’s new vice president, Joshua Smith from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy faculty, received a Ph.D. in history from UMaine in 2003. In addition, the organization recognized UMaine graduate Michael Tuttle with […]
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Retired UMaine police sergeant Harold Kennedy died on Thursday Aug. 4 at the age of 74. An Old Town native, Kennedy was a popular “good, old-fashioned police officer,” as described by Officer Deborah Mitchell.
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Wayne Maines, UMaine’s director of Safety, Environmental Management, Transportation and Security, made two presentation’s at July’s Campus Safety, Health and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA) conference in Minneapolis. Maines conducted a four-hour professional workshop, “Developing, tracking and presenting your EHS Master Plan on a shoestring budget.” He also make a technical program presentation, “How do you […]
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A casual project first talked about 25 years ago by two University of Maine students became a reality this year with the recent publication of a book on the rules and nuances of college football. “Tackling Football: A Woman’s Guide to Understanding the College Game” by Sandra Caron, a UMaine professor of family relations and […]
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Vandalism to the Orono Bog Walk, which is located on land adjacent to UMaine, was reported in the Bangor Daily News, which posted surveillance video taken last week at the bog walk of four people climbing around a locked gate. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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