UMaine Vice President for Administration and Finance Janet Waldron received special recognition from the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) last month, when she stepped down from her role as chair of that organization’s Council on Business Affairs Executive Committee. Waldron received a plaque “in appreciation for….outstanding service and leadership to the Council.” She […]
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Ashley Kerekes, a recent UMaine graduate from the College of Education and Human Development, has become a celebrity of sorts in the world of cricket. Her Twitter handle @theashes matches the name of a popular Australian cricket tournament, “The Ashes.” During the tournament, fans began communicating with Kerekes through Twitter, assuming she was affiliated with […]
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Monday’s Bangor Daily News included a book review written by Howard Segal of the UMaine history faculty. The book, “The Three-Legged Woman and Other Excursions in Teaching,” was written by Robert Klose, a biology professor who serves on the University College of Bangor faculty. In the book, Klose describes various experiences in his teaching career […]
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Contact: William Murphy, (207) 581-4124 ORONO — William Murphy, director of the UMaine Bureau of Labor Education, and Charles Scontras, historian and research associate with the bureau, along with Maine’s Labor Commissioner Laura Fortman, will participate Dec. 17 in a 10-day visit to Maine by a parliamentary delegation from the Chechen Republic to provide members […]
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Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — A recently unveiled A-Z educational package for entrepreneurs and small- and micro-businesses, and those who work with them, will be explained in a 90-minute webinar scheduled for a global broadcast Wednesday, Dec. 8. The home-based and micro-business training curriculum originally was created in the late 1990’s by […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a feature about “Clutter: A Creative Exploration of Junk and Stuff,” an exhibition organized by 10 UMaine students and scheduled for 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, December 10, at 29 Broad Street in Bangor. UMaine graduate student Allison Melton is heading up the project, which will allow the students […]
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The Wicked Local newspapers in Massachusetts report that Jon Sorenson of Boxford, Mass. was one of four people recently honored with a UMaine Stillwater Society Presidential Award. Sorenson, a 1986 UMaine graduate, was recognized along with Prof. Habib Dagher and UMaine alumni benefactors Russell and Barbara Bodwell. The Stillwater Society honors those who have “made […]
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A Sunday New York Times report mentions UMaine as one of the colleges and universities considering changes that would affect academic programs in the languages. In his academic reorganization plan announced last May, President Kennedy recommended that UMaine suspend academic majors in Latin and German, while retaining the capacity for instruction in those languages.
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Mike Bilodeau, director of UMaine’s Process Development Center, was quoted in a Sunday Maine Today Media story about issues related to a grass pellet fuel R&D project that’s underway in northern Maine. UMaine researchers, including Cooperative Extension experts, are looking at ways to create an energy-producing crop on unused farm land in Aroostook County. The […]
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John Dearborn, UMaine professor emeritus of marine sciences, died on Wednesday Nov 24 at his home in Orono, as reported in a Saturday Bangor Daily News obituary. Born in Bangor, Dearborn earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University before joining the UMaine faculty in 1966. A renowned expert in marine animals, Dearborn made several research expeditions […]
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