UMaine News

Contact: Richard Brzozowski, 207-780-4207, rbrz@umext.maine.edu AUGUSTA, Me. — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer an informational session for 4-H Leaders on establishing a Maine poultry team for the 2007 Avian Bowl competition in Louisville, Ky.; the session will feature poultry specialist Jacqueline Jacobs of University of Minnesota Cooperative Extension. This meeting will be Tuesday […]

Contact: Major James C. Moreno, enrollment officer, University of Maine Army ROTC, Room 112, Armory, 581-1125 ORONO — The Black Bear Battalion will hold its cadet commissioning ceremony Saturday, Dec. 23 for two army ROTC cadets at UMaine. Candyce Jacobson of Winterport and Nicolas Phillips of Stuttgart, Germany, will be commissioned into the United States […]

Contact: Jennifer Crittenden, 581-2249; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — A recently completed study by the UMaine Center on Aging on alcohol and drug problems among older adults in Hancock County has revealed that abuse is pervasive and getting worse as Baby Boomers age. The center found through a year-long study that as drug and alcohol […]

Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, 581-1901; Patricia Henner, 581-4100 ORONO — The Hudson Museum and the Page Farm and Home Museum at the University of Maine will be closed over the holidays, from Dec. 23 to Jan. 2. Both will reopen at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 2.

Contact: Richard Grant, 581-1971; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — A team of graduate students from the UMaine Business School recently placed second in an international business plan competition held in Fredericton, New Brunswick. All international students pursuing masters of business administration degrees, the UMaine students competed against 19 other student teams composed of both graduate […]

Contact: Kathryn Jovanelli, 207-561-3352 kj@umit.maine.edu, www.umma.umaine.edu Digital images available Bangor, Maine– The University of Maine Museum of Art is pleased to present three exhibitionsbeginning January 26. Saul Leiter Early Color provides a survey of the artist’s seminalwork in color photography throughout the 1950s into the 60s with the city ashis subject matter. Witty, Sexy, Gimmicky […]

Contact: Ali Abedi (207) 581-2231; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – UMaine has been selected as a recipient of the 2006 Supporting Friend of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Regional Activities Award. Approved by the IEEE Regional Activities Board in November, the award was established to recognize those organizations that encourage […]

Contact: Peter Jumars (207) 581-3321; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – The Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) elected UMaine School of Marine Sciences Professor Peter A. Jumars to be its Chair Elect for 2007 at its semi-annual meeting in December. The CSSP (http://www.cssp.us/) is the nation’s leading center for development of science leadership […]

Contact: Cathy Billings (207) 581-2751; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — UMaine’s new Maine Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory (MAAHL) recently received a grant of $395,205 from the State of Maine’s Marine Research Fund, administered by the Maine Technology Institute.  The award will allow MAAHL to purchase equipment that will greatly increase the lab’s capabilities […]

Contact: Roberta Laverty (207) 581-2110; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – Xuelian Zhang has been named UMaine’s first recipient of the Wood Based Composites Fellowship, established in 2006 with a gift from the Virginia Tech Foundation. Zhang, a Ph.D. student working at the AEWC Center, has completed approximately 2 years of her studies and […]