‘More Maine Meat’ Project to Aid Maine Livestock Producers
University of Maine Cooperative Extension is part of a project to grow the state’s meat industry with more forage-based resources.
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A Milestone Weekend
In honor of the UMaine football team’s 1,000th game, Black Bears fans voted for the program’s top 10 moments.
Read moreUMaine Sponsoring Tree Tour of Oat Nuts Park in Portland
University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a tree identification tour in Oat Nuts Park in Portland from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 28. Portland city arborist Jeff Tarling will lead a tour through the park and down to the Presumpscot River Preserve. Oat Nuts Park, on Summit Street, is the gateway […]
Read moreUMaine Presenting California Proposition 8 Trial Play ‘8’
The University of Maine School of Performing Arts, with license from the American Foundation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact, is offering on Wednesday, Sept. 26 a student reading of “8,” the Broadway play chronicling California’s Federal District Court trial Perry v. Schwarzenegger, now Perry v. Brown, challenging the state’s Proposition 8, a constitutional provision […]
Read moreUMaine Economist Wins Receives International Award
Kathleen P. Bell, an associate professor in the School of Economics, has received an international Sören Wibe Prize from the Swedish Journal of Forest Economics for an article she coauthored in 2011 on evaluating programs designed to protect forests from the invasive forest pest hemlock woolly adelgid. Bell and coauthors Thomas P. Holmes, a U.S. […]
Read moreFinal Sculpture Symposium Artwork Unveiled
The Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium (SISS) closed Thursday, Aug. 30, with the unveiling of the finished sculptures and a closing ceremony in the University of Maine’s Steam Plant parking lot. SISS, a partnership this year with UMaine, was a 6-week artist-in-residence program that brought eight sculptors from Maine and around the world to Orono, where […]
Read moreSegal Elected Phi Beta Kappa District Senator
University of Maine professor of history Howard Segal was elected the New England District Senator for the Phi Beta Kappa honor society during the organization’s recent Triennial Council in Palm Beach, Fla. His term is for six years. The senate is Phi Beta Kappa’s governing body. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Tracking Tidal Marsh Birds
Students collect data that could predict how animals will respond to climate change and future landscape development.
Read moreSchoodic International Sculpture Symposium Comes to an End
Eight internationally known sculptors are putting the finishing touches on their work this week as the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium (SISS) enters its final days in the University of Maine’s Steam Plant parking lot. The site is free and open to the public daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Aug. 30, when a […]
Read moreEconomist Participating in Energy Study Tour in Canada
A University of Maine researcher who specializes in the economics of energy, light-duty transportation, greenhouse gas emissions and alternative fuels is heading to Alberta, Canada, Aug. 28-30 to participate in a tour of the Canadian oil sands region, which contains one of the largest proven oil reserves in the world second only to Saudi Arabia. […]
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