Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Raymond H. Fogler Library will be closed on the following Saturdays: December 20 and December 27, 2008 and January 3 and January 10, 2009. For complete hours please call 581-1664 or visit http://www.library.umaine.edu/about/hours.htm
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Contact: Aimee L. Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — Climate change is a difficult subject to explain to adults, but even more complicated to explain to children because of its magnitude. In a new children’s book, “How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate,” University of Maine Professor Paul Mayewski and other scientists […]
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Contact: Greg Dore, (207) 581-2022; Pete Elias, (207) 581-2097; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — New research from the University of Maine Department of Psychology has established that that belly fat carried around the middle (central adiposity) is related to decreased cognitive (mental) functioning, with adjustment for multiple cardiovascular risk factors. However, adjustment (statistical […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Dr. James W. Warhola, a faculty member of the University of Maine, recently published a paper titled “Dilemmas of the Modern Secular State: The Case of Russia under Putin” in the Forum on Public Policy, a journal of the Oxford Round Table. Dr. Warhola’s paper was published in Volume […]
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Contact: Sandra Horne, 581-1236 Photo available upon request ORONO – Lu Zeph, director of the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies (CCIDS) and associate professor of education, recently was honored for six years of service (2002-2008) to the Association of University Centers on Disabilities’ board of directors. Zeph served as president […]
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Contact: Pank Agrrawal, (610) 570-6903 The South Asian Association of Maine (SAAM) at UMaine has scheduled a memorial ceremony Friday, Dec. 12, at 4-5 p.m. at the Memorial Union to remember the victims of the terror attack in Mumbai, India. A ceremony and a short talk by Doug Allen, professor of philosophy, will be part […]
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Contact: Robert Wheeler, (207) 581-2890; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — Bloodstream infections frequently occur and commonly cause death among critically ill patients. Scientists at the University of Maine may have unlocked the answer to treating one of these infections that kills more than 30 percent of the patients it infects. “It’s an important […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Page Farm and Home Museum will close Wednesday, Dec. 24, at 3 p.m. for the holidays and will reopen Friday, Jan. 2 at its normal time, 9 a.m. The farm and home museum’s normal hours for visits and educational programs is 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesdays […]
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Contact: Adele Adkins at (207) 581-1803; Joe Carr <a class=”darkblueones” href=”mailto:joecarr@maine.edu “>joecarr@maine.edu or at (207) 581-3571 Note: a photo is available upon request. BANGOR, Me. — When Leahy last appeared on the Maine Center for the Arts stage in 2004, they brought down the house with their compelling fiddle-driven music, meticulous step dancing […]
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Contact: Vanessa Vobis, cell:408-605-5846 BANGOR — The Freese Pop art installation show, which features work by students in the University of Maine’s new Intermedia master of fine arts program, will open on Friday, Dec. 12, at the Freese’s building in downtown Bangor. An opening reception will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday. […]
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