Contact: Kristy Ouellette, 353-5550 LEWISTON — Twelve-year-old Naima Arte is making a traditional East African black dress and Naima Odowa, 14, has cut and sewn a black and white scarf with embroidered red hearts. Making clothes with traditional colors “is who we are,” says Odowa, who immigrated to the United States from Kenya with her […]
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Contact: Elizabeth Viselli, Associate Program Manager, (207) 581-2831 OR0NO, Maine–The University of Maine AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center has designed and launched a new website to provide current information regarding the DeepCwind Consortium. It can be viewed at http://www.deepcwind.org. Website visitors can browse information about all aspects of the consortium–research initiative, view available opportunities for […]
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Contact: Ali Abedi, 581-2231 ORONO — The University of Maine has received a two-year NASA grant to create an interdisciplinary research and education program focused on a wireless system to detect leaks in inflatable structures, such as lunar habitats, and domes and bridges used in defense and civilian situations. UMaine Professor Ali Abedi has received […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu will tour the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center on Monday June 14. During his visit, Chu will learn more about UMaine’s innovative research and development activity related to deepwater offshore wind power. Maine voters signaled their support of […]
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Contact: Sid Mitchell, (207) 581-3435 ORONO — To better protect students with potentially life-threatening peanut allergies, schools should implement comprehensive food allergy action plans that include age-appropriate accommodations, personnel training and communication with parents, according to two education researchers. Dianne Hoff at the University of West Georgia, who conducts research on the social/political context of […]
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Contact: Mark Hutchinson, Cooperative Extension educator, (207) 832-0343 MONMOUTH — The faculty of the award-winning Maine Compost School will present a two-day compost workshop for schools and public institutions August 17-18 at Highmoor Farm, a University of Maine Agricultural and Forestry Experimental Station in Monmouth, Maine. The workshop will focus on developing compost/recycling programs in […]
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Contacts: Hon. Mary Cathcart, 944-1411 ORONO — Two dozen college women participating in this year’s Maine NEW Leadership Program June 3-8 will receive graduation certificates today following the day’s final panel discussions at the University of Maine. The young women, from colleges and institutions throughout Maine, will be available to discuss their experiences and share […]
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Contact: Tracy Bigney 973-3234; Peggy Markson 973-3245 BANGOR—The University of Maine System announced today the members of a search committee tasked with making recommendations for the next leader for the System’s land grant and sea grant institution located in Orono. Earlier this year, UMaine President Robert Kennedy announced his intention to step down from the […]
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Contacts: Jessica Leahy, 581-2834; Marilynne Mann, 581-3110 ORONO — The formation all-terrain vehicle (ATV) rider clubs throughout Maine has garnered social capital returns, including improved image and relations with private landowners, according to a recent study by two University of Maine researchers who focus on human-environment interactions. The study explored the purpose of such clubs, […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Prof. Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, will travel to Norway this weekend to join an exclusive fraternity of esteemed climate scientists to receive the International Glaciological Society’s (IGS) Seligman Crystal. Since the award was first presented in 1963 — to its […]
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