UMaine News

Contact: Vicky Blanchette (207) 581-2204; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — The Dearborn Foundation, established to promote the development of inventors and entrepreneurs for the future, recently awarded scholarships to eight students in the University of Maine College of Engineering. Electrical engineering students David Chamberlaine, Michael Clearly and Fred Schwaner, as well as Andrew Farrington […]

Contact: Jerry Ellis, (207) 942-3582; John Hwalek, 581-2302; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — A recently retired UMaine program director and an engineering professor are hoping to raise awareness and scholarship funds for the university’s Onward Program by bicycling across the United States this summer. Jerry Ellis, former director of the College Success Program’s Onward […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 BELFAST, Me. –University of Maine’s President Robert A. Kennedy, along with community leaders and other university officials, broke ground this morning on the Hutchinson Center’s new expansion. Also participating was Frederick Hutchinson, the former UMaine president for whom the eight-year-old facility is named. Through the Hutchinson Center, UMaine provides […]

Contact: Kyle McCaskill, 207-581-3185, kmccaskill@umext.maine.edu ORONO, Me. –University of Maine Cooperative Extension has published 2008 editions of “Conifers of Maine” and “Biodiversity in the Forests of Maine. “ “Conifers of Maine,” the late Fay Hyland’s classic field guide, was first published in 1946. This edition has been updated by his former student, colleague and friend, […]

Contact: Andy Mauery, 299-0282Susan Camp, 570-1076 ORONO — Think sculpture is built to last? Think again. University of Maine students will explore the use of sustainable — and, in many cases, biodegradable — materials in the first Sustainable Sculpture class.     Trash will become treasure. Paper sculptures made with renewable abaca pulp might include seeds […]

Contact: Mick Peterson (207) 581-2129; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 (Media Advisory: Public interest in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes has been heightened considerably because of the possibility that it might produce a Triple Crown winner. Prof. Mick Peterson, a leading expert in racing biomechanics and track-related injuries, is available to talk with the media about his valuable […]

Contact: Laura Brothers (207) 581-1998; Joseph Kelley (207) 581-2162; Daniel Belknap (207) 581-2159; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — Researchers at the University of Maine have questioned the wisdom of a proposal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a series of breakwaters near the shore of a Saco beach community to mitigate […]

Contact: Jennifer Crittenden, (207) 262-7920; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The first-in-the-nation pharmaceuticals mail-back program launched this summer by the University of Maine’s Center on Aging in conjunction with 18 partners is being heralded as an early success. The public is still just learning about the availability of the new Safe Medicine Disposal for ME […]

Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — When the University of Maine’s nearly 4,000 residence hall students moved out for the summer this month, they left behind tons of furniture, electronic equipment, appliances, clothing and other miscellaneous items. Rather than take it to landfills or burn it, UMaine hopes to recycle it at this year’s […]

Contact: Mohamad Musavi, 581-2243; Bruce Segee, 581-2212; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — More than 600 of Maine’s middle school students will converge on the University of Maine Friday, May 30, for a day of pushing the boundaries of their laptop computer skills. As part of the fifth annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative Student Technology […]