Contact: Joe Carr at 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine will host an intercollegiate lumberjack skills competition on Saturday, March 28 9 a.m.-3 p.m. The event is scheduled for the competition field at the end of Allagash Road, to the Park St. side of UMaine’s Sawyer Environmental Sciences Center. It will also be visible […]
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Contact: Douglas G. Babkirk, (207) 712-1414 Portage, ME—University of Maine Cooperative Extension will hold the first Courage To Teach® weekend retreat series for public school teachers and university faculty members in Aroostook County at Hewe sBrook Lodge in Portage. The five-weekend program will begin October 23-25 and will provide anopportunity for 13 educators from diverse […]
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Contact: Robin Parady, 581-4220; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Pulitzer prize-winning author David Hackett Fischer, an expert on the life of explorer and cartographer Samuel de Champlain, and author of “Champlain’s Dream,” will discuss insights on the man termed the Father of New France in a lecture April 15 at 6 p.m. at the University […]
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Contact: Paul F. Hassen, NASULGC, (202) 478-6073, phassen@nasulgc.org David Edelson, NASULGC, (202) 478-6072, dedelson@nasulgc.org Joe Carr, UMaine, (207) 581-3571, joecarr@maine.edu ORONO and WASHINGTON, DC – University of Maine President Robert Kennedy is one of 15 national public higher education leaders appointed today to help lead an effort related to energy independence. NASULGC, A Public University […]
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Contact: Michael Peterson, (207) 581-2129; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – The University of Maine Clean Snowmobile Team ranked fifth in last week’s 2009 Society of Automotive Engineers Clean Snowmobile Challenge in Michigan. The team also walked away with a cold start award. UMaine’s 2009 performance and reengineering of a stock snowmobile was an […]
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Contact: Anna Cassel, 581-2824; or George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — A University of Maine graduate student studying the relationship between post traumatic stress disorder and chronic musculoskeletal pain — including fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis and tendonitis — is looking for women who suffer from either or both afflictions to participate in research that could lead to […]
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Contact: Kristen Andresen, (207) 581-3742 WASHINGTON, D.C. — David Hiebeler, a mathematics and statistics professor at the University of Maine, will present a poster at the Coalition for National Science Funding exhibition tonight on Capitol Hill. “The Path to Innovation: Scientific Discovery and Learning” features the work of more than 30 researchers supported by the […]
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Contact: Joe Carr, 581-3742 ORONO — A Friday March 27 memorial service is scheduled for Prof. Wiebke Ipsen from the UMaine history department, who died on Jan. 27 at the age of 38. The memorial service is scheduled for 3:10 p.m. in the Collins Center for the Arts Bodwell Lounge. More information about the service […]
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Contact: Mike Socolow, 581-1941; George Manlove, 581-3756 Abby Goodnough will be available to meet with reporters Monday, March 30, from 2-2:30 p.m. ORONO — Abby Goodnough, Boston bureau chief of the New York Times, will meet, discuss her work and offer career advice to University of Maine communication and journalism students on Monday, March 30, […]
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Contact: Paul Mayewski, (207) 581-3019; Andrei Kurbatov, (207) 581-2840; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – Two University of Maine scientists will be featured March 31, on the PBS primetime series “NOVA.” The segment, “Last Extinction,” follows prominent scientists as they explore the idea that a comet striking the Earth is to blame for the […]
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