The Morning Sentinel has posted a story about the five Maine gubernatorial candidates’ visits Tuesday to the UMaine campus. Republican candidate Paul LePage was the first to meet with the UMaine community.
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Contact: Andre Khalil, (207) 581-3911; George Manlove (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — A method developed by a University of Maine mathematician to get a much more detailed look at cellular morphology has the potential to aid in early cancer detection. Andre Khalil, a UMaine assistant professor of mathematics and cooperating assistant professor of physics, has […]
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Contact: Aaron Putnam; Peter Koons, 581-2158, peter.koons@maine.edu The first installment of the 2010 Climate Change Institute INT500 workshop series Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 4-5:30 p.m. at UMaine is a workshop and keynote lecture by Columbia University Professor of Earth and environmental sciences James D. Hays, an internationally recognized expert on the role of polar oceans […]
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Contact: Mick Peterson (207) 581-2129 or michael.peterson@maine.edu ORONO – A group of University of Maine researchers, headed up by UMaine Libra Foundation Professor of Engineering Michael “Mick” Peterson, has received a $1 million grant from the Department of Energy to continue developing environmental impact protocols at the site of a tidal-power turbine near Eastport and […]
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A review by English Department faculty member Steve Evans, coordinator of the New Writing Series at UMaine, of three works of contemporary poetry appears in the Oct. 18 online edition of The Nation. The piece is part of the publication’s “Shelf Life” series, a monthly column by various writers that discuss three books on a […]
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Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, (207) 581-1904 ORONO — The Hudson Museum will host a free, public lecture by Karen Olsen Bruhns, one of the leading authorities on Pre-Columbian fake artifacts from Mesoamerica and the South American Andes, Thursday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. Bruhns is director of the Cihuatan/Las Marias Archaeological Project for the Fundacion Nacional […]
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UMaine has received a $821,065 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, according to LibraryJournal.com. UMaine and other partners will use the grant for a statewide Maine Shared Collections Strategy project to define a strategy for share management of legacy print collections and to explore new ways of delivering content to […]
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A story in Mainebiz about a learning center in Washington County that has collaborated with a local fishery cites a study by the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at UMaine. The study found Washington County had the highest proportion of families seeking assistance for home heating oil, free or reduced lunch, and and food stamp […]
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A Portland Press Herald story notes the UMaine Museum of Art as one of several art museums in Maine focusing recently on photography. UMMA has an photography exhibit opening Friday in its downtown Bangor location.
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Kevin Birch, a faculty member in UMaine’s School of Performing Arts, is quoted extensively in a Bangor Daily News story about a benefit event for the 1860 E.E. & G. Hook organ located in St. John’s Catholic Church in Bangor.
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