Contact: Sandy Butler, (207) 581-2382; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — The majority of the nation’s baby boomers are now passing age 50, and so too is a growing population of HIV/AIDS patients — a phenomenon that health care systems may not be prepared to handle, says University of Maine gerontologist Sandy Butler. “People […]
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Contact: Laura Wilson 207-581-2971 Waldoboro, ME– University of Maine Cooperative Extension next Watershed Stewards Program begins on Sept. 19 at the Miller School in Waldoboro. This program will take place weekly through Oct. 30, with sessions held Thursday evenings from 6:30
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 The University of Maine will conduct a full-scale test of its emergency warning siren system on Friday, Aug. 22 at 5 p.m. As part of its comprehensive emergency communications system, UMaine installed one siren on the roof of Class of 1944 Hall last summer. To assure full campus coverage, […]
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Contact: Steve Barkan, (207) 581-2383; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — On almost every television detective show on any given night of the week, it seems to take the police just a matter of hours to solve the crime and nab the criminal. If only that were true in real life. Such wishful outcomes […]
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Contact: Barry Goodell, 581-2888 ORONO — Barry Goodell, UMaine professor of wood science and technology, was elected vice president of the Forest Products Society at the 62nd International Convention held in St. Louis, Mo., June 22-24. With 3,000 members and subscribers around the world, the Wisconsin-based Forest Products Society is a global leader in technical […]
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Contact: Howard Patterson, 581-1178, George Manlove, 581-03756 ORONO — Bangor High School senior Anne Marie Lausier has been immersed in some pretty sophisticated, college-level research this summer at the University of Maine, thanks to a national research internship for high schoolers. She says she’s loving every minute of it. Lausier won a seven-week MERITS (Maine […]
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Contact: Beth Calder, 207-581-2791 ORONO, ME–University of Maine Cooperative Extension is advising Mainers to get up-to-date information before canning their garden harvest. Botulism can occur when safe canning methods are not used, because botulism-producing bacteria thrive under the low-oxygen conditions found in canned foods, and at food pH levels above 4.6. UMaine Extension county offices […]
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Contact: Prof. Bob Bayer, Lobster Institute, University of Maine (207) 581-2785, bob.bayer@umit.maine.edu ORONO — The University of Maine’s Lobster Institute will initiate a project aimed at enhancing lobster health and preserving that commercial fishery, which has an estimated annual national economic impact of $700 million- $1.2 billion. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — As the University of Maine begins the second half of its six-year, $150 million private fund-raising campaign, the vice president who has led the effort to this point has decided to step down from that job. Barbara Beers, who has served as UMaine’s vice president for development, […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine President Robert Kennedy has selected Stuart Marrs, a UMaine music professor and music division chair in the university’s School of Performing Arts, to become associate provost and dean for undergraduate education. The appointment is subject to approval by the University of Maine System Board […]
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