UMaine News

Contact: Barbara A. Byers, (716) 645-3312; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 BUFFALO, N.Y. — Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at UMaine, will be honored by the University at Buffalo Alumni Association at its achievement awards gala to be held April 5 in the Adam’s Mark Hotel in downtown Buffalo on April 5. The […]

Contact: Alan Davenport, 581-1341; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Telescopes and binoculars, often considered windows to the universe, allow average sky-watchers to see stars of different colors, brightness and those with partners called doubles. More exotic objects — star clusters, nebula and galaxies — also are readily visible with magnification. To help the public access […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3517;

Contact: Pauleena MacDougall, 581-1848 ORONO — The Maine Folklife Center is presenting a lecture Wednesday, March 26, by University of Pennsylvania professor Dan Ben Amos, author and scholar on Jewish, Eastern European and Middle Eastern folklore. “Is There a Jewish Mother in Jewish Folklore?” is the title of the talk, which is free and open […]

Contact: Jean MacRae, 581-2137George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Last year, civil engineering undergraduates Heather Martin and Lee Rand joined a group of other UMaine students visiting a small, poverty-stricken community in Honduras over spring break as part of a Spanish language service-learning class. While some in the group led by Spanish professor Kathleen March worked […]

Contact: Danielle Meyer at (207) 581-1733 ORONO– University of Maine graduate student Danielle Meyer,working with Dept. of Food Sciences and Human Nutrition Prof. Mary-Ellen Camire, is looking for women between the ages of 30 and 50 for an appetite study involving potatoes. Volunteers who complete all sessions of the study will receive $100 compensation. Some […]

Contact: Yifeng Zhu (207) 581-2499 Bruce Segee (207) 581-2212 Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — Two innovative programs being launched at the University of Maine will allow college undergraduates as well as middle-school teachers and their students to experience firsthand the extraordinary educational potential of supercomputer technology.   The Supercomputing Undergraduate Program in Maine (SuperMe), […]

Contact: Renee Kelly, 581-1141George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Students from five area high schools and 10 area businesses will team up Thursday, Feb. 28, for the Junior Achievement-Bank of America Titan Challenge, part of Maine’s observance of National Entrepreneurship Week. Ten student teams will compete at the Foster Student Innovation Center at UMaine in Orono […]

Contact: Carl Little at little@prexar.com, 207-667-9735Stephen Hartgen at Stephen_Hartgen@hotmail.com. or 208-420-6761. Orono, Maine, Feb. 21, 2008 ‘ Vincent Hartgen, the prolific Maine artist who founded the University of Maine Art Department, the University of Maine Museum of Art, and advanced arts in the state through a lifetime of promotion and creative works of his own, […]

Contact: Prof. Mark Wells (207) 581-4322; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — F. Sherwood Rowland, who shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1995 for his pioneering work on the formation and depletion of atmospheric ozone, will deliver a lecture March 13, at the University of Maine’s Buchanan Alumni House. Rowland, a professor of chemistry […]