UMaine News

Contact: Roberta Laverty (207) 581-2110; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – Telestick LLC, located in Pownal, Maine, is working with UMaine’s Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center to develop and test a composite pole, called a “lurk,” to be used in telemark skiing. Several years ago, Telestick founder Matt Welch took up telemark, an increasingly […]

Contact: Catherine Schmitt (207) 581-2434: Dave Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine –The National Sea Grant College Program has just announced that three graduates of the University of Maine System have received prestigious Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships. More than 100 graduate students from throughout the country competed for the 10 positions available in […]

Contact: Larry Mayer (207) 581-3321; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – While working on problems facing the clamming industry in mud flats, UMaine oceanographer Larry Mayer began to more fully appreciate the important connection between the preservation of organic matter and the presence of clays. He pursued this connection into the Gulf of Maine, […]

Contact: Lauren Swett (207) 581-2185; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — More than 50 of Maine’s top engineering firms, engineering schools, government agencies and industries will be on hand on Saturday, March 4, at the UMaine Field House in Orono for the 2006 Engineering Expo. The event will feature a variety of engineering-related demonstrations […]

Contact: Michael Robbins (207) 581-2051; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – Psychology professors Merrill Elias, Michael Robbins, and Penelope Elias are continuing their study of the relationship between high blood pressure and cognitive skills thanks to a $680,619 grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The project’s latest manifestation will […]

Contact: Kathleen March, 581-2088; Lyn Dexter, 581-1349; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — More than 90 UMaine students, faculty and employees are dedicating their spring break vacations to doing charitable volunteer work up and down the East Coast and in Central America this year. It is the largest representation from UMaine since the Alternative Spring Break […]

Contact: Susan White (207) 581-1442; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – After more than 25 years in Coburn Hall, the Maine Sea Grant College Program has moved to building 6 in York Complex (formerly York Village). The new address is: 5784 York Complex. All phone numbers and e-mail addresses of staff will remain the […]

Contact: Ann Smith, 581-2319; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The snow is beginning to fall as cold January air swirls inside the University of Maine’s new “Access Van” when driver Matt Jackins lowers the hydraulic wheelchair ramp for student Svetlana Miljkovic outside Gannett Hall. Once “Lana” Miljkovic wheels into the van and the doors close, […]

Contact: Laura Wilson, 800-870-7270 (in Maine) or 207-581-2971 LINCOLNVILLE–UMaine Cooperative Extension

Contact: Jose Cordero, 581-1425, George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – James Varner, president of the Greater Bangor NAACP, will bethe Black History Month dinner speaker on Friday, Feb. 24 from 6-8 atStodder Commons. The previously scheduled speaker, James Wallace, professor of highereducation leadership at Eastern Illinois University, was unable to makethe engagement, according to Jose Cordero, […]