UMaine Cross Country Teams Earn National Academic Honors
Measures of classroom performance, eligibility, and retention draw a picture of the academic culture in each NCAA sport.
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Portland Press Herald Reports on $7.9 M Donation to UMaine
The Portland Press Herald reported on a $7.9 million donation received by the University of Maine from the estate of 1958 graduate Thomas Homser.
Read moreTexas Newspaper Reports on $7.9 Million Gift to UMaine
The San Antonio Express News website, published an Associated Press article about a $7.9 million donation to the University of Maine Foundation by the estate of 1958 UMaine engineering graduate and philanthropist Thomas Hosmer of Massachusetts. The money will support needed maintenance projects on campus and an endowed scholarship and an endowed lab to benefit […]
Read moreMaine Lobster Institute Cited in CNN Blue Lobster Report
A CNN news report about a Nova Scotia lobster boat pulling a rare bright blue lobster from the Atlantic included a reference to the University of Maine Lobster Institute, which has said blue lobsters like the one caught in Canada are a 1 in 2 million phenomenon. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
Read moreUMaine Role in New Bridge Year Program Noted
Several news organizations, including the Maine Public Broadcasting Network, covered the unveiling Monday by Gov. Paul LePage, Maine Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen and Hermon High School students and administrators of the pilot Bridge Year Program, an educational collaborative involving the University of Maine. The project allows 15 college-bound technology students from Hermon to finish high […]
Read moreRogers Farm Hosting Summer Educational Events
Three events are being held in July at the University of Maine Rogers Farm Forage and Crop Research Facility on Bennoch Road in Stillwater to highlight sustainable agricultural research being conducted there. On July 3, a research tour organized by UMaine Extension sustainable agriculture specialist Ellen Mallory is being offered for a group of 35 […]
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Courage to Teach
A University of Maine Cooperative Extension-sponsored initiative seeks to build individual, group and organizational capacity to strengthen what is working well for public school teachers while creatively and effectively garnering the support needed to address what needs attention.
Read moreLittlefield Gardens to Benefit from Peony Grower’s Open House
A gardening column in the Portland Press Herald about peonies now blooming in Maine noted that $2 donations collected from visitors at gardener Ken Liberty’s open house June 23 at 23 Ohio Street in Bangor will benefit several nonprofit groups, including the University of Maine’s Lyle E. Littlefield Ornamentals Trial Garden, which now has various […]
Read moreHough Interviewed for Domestic Violence Perspective Article
An article in the Waterville Morning Sentinel about how public consciousness of domestic violence has changed in the last four decades included comments from Mazie Hough, associate director of women’s studies at the University of Maine. Hough said what started in the 1970s as a grassroots feminist movement to establish domestic violence projects and influence […]
Read moreNECN Bullying Report Notes UMaine Research
A New England Cable News (NECN.com) interview about keeping kids safe from bullying and hazing at summer sports camps cited groundbreaking research by University of Maine College of Education and Human Development faculty members Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden that showed 47 percent of more than 11,000 students surveyed on 53 campuses nationwide reported they […]
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