UMaine News

Contact: Kristen Whiting-Grant, 207-646-1555 x115 ORONO–From global climate change to increasing population pressure, Maine’s beaches will confront many changes in the coming decades. Public officials, coastal property owners, tourists and businesses each have a different interest in the beach, but a common desire for sustaining these valuable natural resources. Ways to achieve this common goal, […]

Contact: Joseph E. Phaneuf, Executive Director, jphaneuf@northernlogger.com (The following is a Northeastern Loggers’ Association press release.) Bangor, ME – The Northeastern Loggers’ Association (NELA) recently honored the UMaine Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center of Orono, ME as the recipient of its 2007 Outstanding Use of Wood award. NELA President John Caveney honored the AEWC Center […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Prof. Karl Kreutz of the University of Maine’s Dept. of Earth Sciences and Climate Change Institute will present a lecture, “Climate Change in Maine: Past, Present and Future,” on Friday May 25 at UMaine. Kreutz’ 12 noon lecture is set for UMaine’s Page Farm and Home Museum, […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Due to a production error, 36 Class of 2007 University of Maine graduates were not properly recognized in the May 12 Commencement printed program. Students from various programs in UMaine’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, all 36 graduated with honors. The program failed to note that […]

Contact: Catherine Schmitt, 207-581-1434; Kristen Whiting-Grant, 207-646-1555, ext. 115 ORONO, Me. – People forced off fishing docks in Alabama. Waiting lists for moorings in Massachusetts. Public paths to the beach blocked in California. Commercial waterfronts eclipsed by private residences in Maine. Coasts transformed by condominiums in North Carolina. Marinas and boat ramps crowded in Florida. […]

Contact: Hudson Museum, 581-1901 ORONO — Two new exhibits on the Maine north woods wilderness and Mount Katahdin open May 31 at the University of Maine’s Hudson Museum. “Wildness within, wildness without,” features a photographic exploration of Maine’s Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail with images by prize-winning photographer Bridget Besaw, a former Bangor Daily News photographer. A collection […]

Contact: Owen Maurais, 581-3651; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The Penobscot River Educational Partnership (PREP), which includes the UMaine College of Education and Human Development, has received a $100,000 state grant to help area school districts operate more efficiently. Owen Maurais, executive director of PREP, says the Maine Municipal Bond Bank “Credit Quality Improvement Grant” […]

Contact: Bob Potts, Marketing & Creative Services Manager, (207) 581-2586 ORONO, ME–The University of Maine Alumni Association is pleased to announce that Justin Zang, class of 2010, is the winner of the 2007 Alumni Association tuition raffle.  The UMaine Alumni Association sponsors the raffle in support of the many programs and services the organization provides […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — With a total of approximately 11,000 family members andfriends looking on, the University of Maine’s Class of 2007 graduatedtoday in a pair of ceremonies inside UMaine’s Alfond Arena.  Some1,958 people received UMaine degrees at the university’s 205thcommencement ceremony, with 298 of them earning graduate degrees, 33 atthe […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Amy Kirk of Orono has been selected as the top graduating senior in the University of Maine College of Business, Public Policy and Health. She will carry the college’s banner into UMaine’s Alfond Arena at the beginning of the university’s Saturday, May 12 commencement ceremony. Kirk, who […]