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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The University of Maine is ranked among the top colleges and universities on a national scale, according to Princeton Review, Fiske Guide to Colleges and Forbes’ “America’s Top Colleges.”
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Eva Wagner of Thorndike has been named education coordinator at the University of Maine Museum of Art.
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Paul Ferguson, the University of Maine’s president since July 1, will attend the annual summer reunion of UMaine’s Class of 1944 on Wednesday July 27 in Memorial Union.
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Richard Higgins, a 1979 UMaine graduate and retired Boeing executive, has won Tau Beta Pi’s 2011 Distinguished Alumnus Award. That engineering honor society will formally recognize Higgins with the award at its October convention in Indianapolis. According to the Tau Beta Pi news release, the award honors Higgins’ “lifetime achievements and commitment to engineering education.” […]
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Prominent Portland attorney Jeffrey A. Thaler has been appointed University of Maine Visiting Professor of Energy Law, Policy and Ethics for a two-year period beginning Aug. 29, 2011 “Jeff Thaler is an acknowledged expert in this field, and he will be instrumental to our efforts as we further develop renewable energy academic programming, research and […]
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