Contact: Len Kaye, 581-3481George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – Lenard Kaye, director of the Center on Aging at the University of Maine, recently was elected president of the Maine Gerontological Society, a statewide non-profit organization that exists to address issues effecting older adults. It serves as the primary interdisciplinary association of individuals and organizations in the […]
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Contact: Lisa Phelps, Extension Educator, (207) 780-4205, 800-287-1471 ORONO, Me. — The Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) has awarded 70 4-H clubs across the United States with a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software grant–and University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s 4-H Youth Development program won 11 of them. ESRI is a geographic information system (GIS) technology […]
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Contact: Todd Gabe, associate professor of Resource Economic and Policy, 207-581-3307, todd.gabe@umit.maine.eduClinton Colmenares, UMaine University Relations, 207-581-3742, clinton.colmenares@umit.maine.edu Regions with fastest growth in people hadslowest growth in jobs ORONO, Maine — New economic data from the University ofMaine give hope to cities across the country trying to gain a foothold in thecreative economy. Growth in […]
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Contact: David Munson (207) 581-3777 Thanks to the pioneering efforts of surgeon and UMaine researcher Ian Dickey and Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor Darrell Donahue, UMaine is at the leading edge of research aimed at improving medical implants using a group of new materials collectively referred to as foam metals. Composed of a variety of […]
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Contact: Kelly Dorgan (207) 563-3146 x319; David Munson (207) 581-3777 Kelly Dorgan, a UMaine Ph. D. student in oceanography, has been selected by Popular Science magazine to be included in the fifth annual “PopSci’s Brilliant 10” feature for 2006. The article features young researchers who are emerging as leaders in their prospective fields. Citing both […]
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Contact: David Munson (207) 581-3777 A new study of glacial retreat shows that much of the world emerged from the last ice age simultaneously, according to two leading climate change scientists at Columbia University and at the University of Maine. The exceptions were areas of the North Atlantic, which remained in a deep freeze 2,500 […]
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Contact: Michael Kinnison (207) 581-2575; Gayle Zydlewski (207) 581-4365: David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — Over the past week, UMaine scientists conducting research in the Penobscot River have captured and released nearly a dozen shortnos sturgeon, a bottom-dwelling fish that has been listed as endangered since 1967. Discovered in the waters off Winterport, these […]
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Contact: Kathryn Jovanelli, 207.561.3352, kj@umit.maine.edu, www.umma.umaine.edu (Digital images available) BANGOR, Me. – The University of Maine Museum of Art is pleased to present two new exhibitions: Sam Cady: Reality and Reverie, and Jocelyn Lee: Youth. Sam Cady: Reality and ReverieSam Cady’s large scale, shaped canvas paintings often blur the boundary between painted illusion and the […]
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Contact: Charles Scontras, 799-3469; William Murphy, 581-4124; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – Documents now available in the University of Maine’s Fogler Library detail the struggle and sacrifice of 19th and 20th century worker advocates who protested 14-hour workdays and children as young as age 12 quitting school to work in factories. In those times, employees […]
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Contact: Leisa Preble, 581-1016 ORONO – The four-day National Conference and Summer Academy sponsored by UMaine’s Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research begins Sunday, June 25, with the arrival of more than 175 teachers, professors and researchers, all looking to explore ways to make science and math more appealing to middle and secondary school […]
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