UMaine News

Contact: Ryan Bouchard, 581-1796 ORONO — The Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism is holding its Fifth Annual “UMaine Cares” service event in celebration of National Make a Difference Day, Oct. 24. UMaine Cares began in 2005 as an effort to raise funds for hurricane relief in the Gulf Coast area. Student groups and individuals […]

Contact: Jennifer Crittenden, 262-7923 ORONO — The University of Maine Center on Aging, in partnership with the Maine Community Foundation, is seeking older volunteers for a new program, Encore Leadership Corps (ENCorps), to provide leaders for a variety of “smart growth” projects in Maine. To get the program started, between 150 and 200 ENCorps volunteers […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine is one of several prestigious marine research institutions joining forces to study North Atlantic marine ecosystems as part of the Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR). In addition to UMaine, the collaborative involves Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Rutgers University, the University […]

Contact: Joe Carr (joecarr@maine.edu) (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development and its Division of Student Affairs will sponsor a Monday Oct. 19 event for those interested in learning more about careers in higher education student affairs.  A Student Affairs Fair, scheduled for 10 a.m.-12 noon on the […]

Contact:  Kathryn Jovanelli, (207) 561-3350 October 2 – December 31, 2009 High resolution digital images available upon request Roadside Ghosts:  Photographs by Dave Anderson Arkansas-based Dave Anderson exhibits a series of photographs captured on his travels throughout 30 US states. The photographer’s journeys on America’s back roads result in images that are familiar yet mysterious. […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A group of 200 University of Maine community members and others will walk to raise money and awareness for suicide prevention on Sunday, Sept. 27.  The 3.5 mile walk will begin at UMaine’s Fogler Library, at 1 p.m. The UMaine event is part of the Out of […]

Contact: Kevin Taschereau (kevin.taschereau@umit.maine.edu) or (207) 581-4183 ORONO, Me. – The University of Maine will celebrate National Hazing Prevention Week on Thursday, Sept. 24 at noon on the Fogler Library steps with the signing of Hazing Prevention Statement. Presidents, members, and advisors of UMaine’s student organizations, fraternities, sororities and athletic teams will take part in […]

Contacts: Laura Lindenfeld, 581-1843; Gisela Hoecherl-Alden, 581-2081; George Manlove, 591-3756 ORONO – The University of Maine’s “Project Opportunity,” a five-year government funded initiative to improve and update English language teacher training for current and future school teachers in Maine, has received $300,000 in third-year funding for 2009-2010. The project, in partnership with the Maine State […]

Contact: Kathleen McIntyre, 581-1541 ORONO — Many of us have likely driven past a number of Maine’s private estates, parks, gardens, cemeteries, golf courses and campuses without really understanding the story behind them, or the extensive efforts on the part of a landscape designer and the vision of one of the state’s renowned benefactors that […]

Contact: Kristen Andresen at 581-3742 or kristen.andresen@umit.maine.edu ORONO — Portland artist Joe Kievitt is creating a large-scale installation in the Collins Center for the Arts as part of Maine’s Percent for Art program. The program sets aside one percent of the construction costs in public buildings to purchase works of art. Kievitt’s installation, a geometric […]