UMaine News

Contact: Laurie Hicks, (207) 561-3350; Joe Carr, (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Currently on exhibit in the Lord Hall Gallery through June 16, “Art of the 70s” is a collaboration of the UMaine Department of Art, the University of Maine Museum of Art and the National Poetry Foundation that features some of the defining art from […]

Contact: Bob Potts, Alumni Programs & Marketing, (207) 581-1149 / 1 (800) 934-2586 ORONO, ME – The University of Maine Alumni Association (UMAA)has announced the recipients of its 2008 Alumni Awards. They are as follows: Alumni Career Award (UMAA’s highest honor): Dorothea Butler Marsden ’50, Deland, Florida (Children’s educator, researcher and creator of educational assessment […]

Contact: Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — Margaret Estapa, a doctoral student in oceanography at the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, was recently awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship. The fellowship, available to to master’s or doctoral students in Earth science, heliophysics, planetary science and astrophysics, is awarded on the merits […]

Contact: Robyn Russell, Phi Kappa Phi, (800-804-9880) ORONO — UMaine Class of 2008 salutatorian Anh Hoai Do of Hanoi, Vietnam has been awarded a fellowship and an award of excellence by the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi for the 2008-2009 academic year. One of 100 students nationwide to receive a Phi Kappa Phi fellowship […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 BELFAST, Me. –The University of Maine Hutchinson Center Expansion Committee has announced that the center’s New Media facility will be named the Moss Inc. New Media Center, in recognition of a generous gift from that company. “We are pleased to participate in the expansion of the Hutchinson Center. It […]

Contact: Richard Brzozowski, 207-780-4205 ORONO, Me.–University of Maine Cooperative Extension and NBC television affiliates WCSH6 in Portland and WLBZ2 in Bangor will present weekly segments on growing vegetables. Scheduled during 5 p.m. newscasts throughout the growing season, the segments will cover garden planning, planting, season extension, container and raised-bed gardening, intensive gardening, soil improvement, composting, […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Commonly known as midge flies, chironomids begin their lives as larvae in lake sediment. It’s cozy down there — a nice place to build a home, or a tube as the case may be. As they grow, they shed their skin four times, then pupate. All at […]

Contact: Dianne Jackson, 581-2401 ORONO — Diane Jackson, clinical instructor in special education in the UMaine College of Education and Human Development, recently received the Sylvester Service Award from the Learning Disabilities Association of Maine. The award is given to those who are dedicated to providing service to individuals with learning disabilities and attention disorders. […]

Contact: Bob Potts at (207) 581-2586 Orono, ME — The University of Maine Alumni Association and the UMaine Division of Lifelong Learning will team up to to present a graduate level course, Maine Politics and Public Policy, in conjunction with the 2008 UMaine Alumni Reunion Weekend. The opening lecture is set for Friday, May 30 […]

Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100 ORONO — Gardening with raised beds — a good way to grow healthy vegetables in areas with poor soil — is the topic of a brown bag lunch and lecture at the UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum June 11. Featuring Donna Coffin, Extension educator with the University of Maine Cooperative […]