UMaine News

Contact: Gregory Zaro, 581-1857 or Gregory.Zaro@umit.maine.edu ORONO — Gregory Zaro, assistant professor in the University of Maine’s Anthropology Department and Climate Change Institute, will present “Ancient Civilizations, Archaeology and Environmental Change in South America” from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, Jan.14, at the Bangor Public Library. Zaro’s talk is the third installment in the Climate […]

Contact: Kathryn Jovanelli at 561-3350 Camp Information:Time: 8:30 — 12:00  Dates: February 16 — 20, 2009Grades: 3rd – 5th GradeTuition: $115; Members of the Museum of Art – $100; Early Bird (by January 9) – $90 (includes all materials). The fifth annual UMMA Winter Art Camp, an in-depth art experience held at the University of […]

Contact: Diane Khiel (dkhiel@adelphia.net); Joe Carr (joecarr@maine.edu) ORONO– The Greater Bangor NAACP and the University of Maine will host theannual Martin Luther King Breakfast Celebration on Monday Jan. 19 atUMaine’s Wells Conference Center.  Doors will open at 8 a.m., with thetwo-hour event scheduled to begin at 8:30. Outgoing Maine Attorney General Steven Rowe will provide […]

Contact: Mike Hermann at (207) 992-3411Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO, ME. –To commemorate the 400th anniversaries of French explorer Samuel Champlain’s founding of Qu

Contact: Kenda Scheele, 581- 1403; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine Student Recreation and Fitness Center has become one of 10 new building projects throughout the United States and Canada to receive a prestigious 2008 Athletic Business Facility of Merit Award from Athletic Business Magazine. The award, accepted Dec. 5 in San […]

Contact: Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777; Sara Lindsay, (207) 581-2739 ORONO, Maine ­ They’re far from a family portrait, but University of Maine marine science professor Sara Lindsay’s images of tiny marine worms have earned recognition by two international imaging competitions. Using confocal microscopy, which uses optical sectioning and lasers to create detailed images from specimens […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]