UMaine News

Contact: Ben Slayton, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, (207) 228-1638, Ben@gmri.orgJoe Carr, (207) 581-3571, joecarr@maine.edu Andrew Pershing, Ph.D., Brings Ecosystem Modeling Expertise to the Gulf of Maine PORTLAND AND ORONO, Me. — The University of Maine and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute today announced the hiring of marine ecosystem modeler Andrew Pershing, Ph.D.  This […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt, (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — A new resource to help schools keep students enrolled and on track toward graduation and encourage those who have dropped out to return to school will be available for participants at the 2006 Dropout Prevention Summer Institute taking place July 24-25 at the University of Maine. The […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt, (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Children in grades kindergarten-12 can boost their reading and writing skills during a University of Maine summer program taking place June 26-July 27 at Old Town Elementary School. Designed for area students who would benefit from additional literacy instruction, the program is a long-standing tradition of the […]

Contact: Timoth Sylvia, 299-6250; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – Stuck with tons of furniture, electronic equipment, appliances, clothing and food left in dormitories when nearly 4,000 students vacated campus housing in mid-May, UMaine Property Management is hoping a two-day yard sale May 26-27 will help reduce the refuse to be donated to charity or trashed. […]

Contact: Rory Eckardt, (207) 949-4401; William Sulinski, 866-6562; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Two UMaine business students who have started their own businesses through the university’s Target Technology Innovation Center received $5,000 seed grants from the Portland-based Libra Future Fund earlier this month. Rory Eckardt of Orono, beginning his third semester in the Maine Business […]

Contact: Patty Henner, (207) 581-4100; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum will open a new gallery and an exhibit on haying in Maine on Saturday, June 3 at 2 p.m. “It’s Haying Time – Haying in Maine, 1865-1940” focuses on the daily details and tools of the small farm […]

Contact: Kim McKeage, 581-1989; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine marketing Professor Kim McKeage knows there’s a lot more going on in retailing than stocking shelves and making change. A former chain store manager, McKeage is trying to impart that notion to Maine Business School students through a special retail management class, possibly the only […]

Contact: Johanna Clift (207) 474-9622, 1-800-287-1495 (in Maine) SKOWHEGAN

Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — How many frustrated parents have asked their teen-agers, “What in the world were you thinking?” Well, the kids probably weren’t thinking, at least not in the way adults reason. They might not have the capacity, according to cognitive neuroscientist Herbert J. Weingartner, Shibles Distinguished Visiting Professor […]

Contact: Shannon E. Martin at (207) 581-1281 or Sundari Pai at (207) 581-1939 ORONO–On Wednesday May 17 more than 100 students and advisors met at the University of Maine for the 13th Annual Maine Center for Student Journalism Newspaper Contest and Conference. Entrees from a dozen high schools representing all areas of the state competed […]