Contact: Lisa Morin, 581-4194, Nory Jones, 581-1971 ORONO — Saturday’s football game against UNH won’t be the only competition on campus at UMaine. A competitive food drive is set for Saturday, Oct. 2. The Maine Business School Corps, the Alumni Association, the Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism, the Athletics Department, Greek Life, Residence Life, […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The Maine Speech-Language-Hearing Association (MSHLA) will bring its 2010 fall conference to the University of Maine Thursday Oct. 7-Saturday Oct. 9. The conference is scheduled for UMaine’s Wells Conference Center. UMaine’s Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders will host the sessions, in conjunction with MSLHA. MSLHA works […]
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University of Maine cross-country runners David Currier of Sidney, Maine and Corey Conner of Townsend, Mass. have been named the America East Cross Country Performers of the Week. Currier won the dual meet against New Hampshire in a time of 25:25 for the 8K men’s race while Conner took top honors in the 5K women’s […]
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The annual Hockey East coaches’ poll was released Wednesday at the league’s media day in Boston. The Maine Black Bears, who lost last year’s league championship game in overtime, are ranked second behind Boston College. Coach Tim Whitehead’s Black Bears, led by 2010 Hobey Baker Award finalist Gustav Nyquist, open their season with a Sunday […]
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The University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, along with the DeepCwind Consortium, will host the First Annual Maine Deepwater Offshore Wind Conference on Tuesday, Oct. 19, at the Point Lookout Resort and Conference Center in Northport. The event will be open to the public. The list of invitees is expected to include […]
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Contact: Todd Gabe, (207) 581-3307; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — A new report on the knowledge economies of 287 cities in the United States and Canada shows that Portland, Maine, is a “Thinking Region,” according to Todd Gabe, professor of economics at the University of Maine and one of the study’s co-authors. The […]
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Contact: Mary Rosser, 581-2445; Anne Pooler, 581-2441 ORONO — The University of Maine Reading Recovery initiative is part of a national network of 16 colleges and universities receiving $45.6 million to help improve literacy skills for an estimated 500,000 first-graders struggling with reading and writing. UMaine’s College of Education and Human Development is receiving $2.9 […]
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The NZ Resources Web site in New Zealand carries a story about new research led by Aaron Putnam of the UMaine Climate Change Institute. The research, reported in the journal “Nature Geoscience,” resolves long-standing questions about conditions that affected New Zealand glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age. UMaine Prof. George Denton is […]
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The Portland Press Herald features a story about “St. John Valley Creative Economy Project – Strengthening Our Communities and Economy Through Culture and Place,” a new report from UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. St. John Valley-based cultural development specialist Sheila Jans wrote the report. She is quoted extensively in the Press Herald report.
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Contact: Kathryn Jovanelli (207) 561-3350 High resolution digital images available upon request BANGOR — Three new exhibitions will open at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor on Friday Oct. 8. Pablo Picasso: The Passionate Print, Selections from the Museum Collection October 8 – December 30, 2010 Picasso’s virtuosity as a printmaker […]
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