UMaine News

Contact: Mohamad Musavi, 581-2243; Bruce Segee, 581-2212; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — More than 600 of Maine’s middle school students will converge on the University of Maine Friday, May 30, for a day of pushing the boundaries of their laptop computer skills. As part of the fifth annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative Student Technology […]

Contact: Steve Evans, (207) 581-3818; Joe Carr, (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The 1970s were a tumultuous time in American culture — and the poetry of the decade distills that to its most raw form. As part of its “decades” conference series, The National Poetry Foundation at the University of Maine will bring together an international […]

Contact: Laurie Hicks, (207) 561-3350; Joe Carr, (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Currently on exhibit in the Lord Hall Gallery through June 16, “Art of the 70s” is a collaboration of the UMaine Department of Art, the University of Maine Museum of Art and the National Poetry Foundation that features some of the defining art from […]

Contact: Bob Potts, Alumni Programs & Marketing, (207) 581-1149 / 1 (800) 934-2586 ORONO, ME – The University of Maine Alumni Association (UMAA)has announced the recipients of its 2008 Alumni Awards. They are as follows: Alumni Career Award (UMAA’s highest honor): Dorothea Butler Marsden ’50, Deland, Florida (Children’s educator, researcher and creator of educational assessment […]

Contact: Tom Weber (207) 581-3777 ORONO — Margaret Estapa, a doctoral student in oceanography at the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, was recently awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship. The fellowship, available to to master’s or doctoral students in Earth science, heliophysics, planetary science and astrophysics, is awarded on the merits […]

Contact: Robyn Russell, Phi Kappa Phi, (800-804-9880) ORONO — UMaine Class of 2008 salutatorian Anh Hoai Do of Hanoi, Vietnam has been awarded a fellowship and an award of excellence by the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi for the 2008-2009 academic year. One of 100 students nationwide to receive a Phi Kappa Phi fellowship […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 BELFAST, Me. –The University of Maine Hutchinson Center Expansion Committee has announced that the center’s New Media facility will be named the Moss Inc. New Media Center, in recognition of a generous gift from that company. “We are pleased to participate in the expansion of the Hutchinson Center. It […]

Contact: Richard Brzozowski, 207-780-4205 ORONO, Me.–University of Maine Cooperative Extension and NBC television affiliates WCSH6 in Portland and WLBZ2 in Bangor will present weekly segments on growing vegetables. Scheduled during 5 p.m. newscasts throughout the growing season, the segments will cover garden planning, planting, season extension, container and raised-bed gardening, intensive gardening, soil improvement, composting, […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Commonly known as midge flies, chironomids begin their lives as larvae in lake sediment. It’s cozy down there — a nice place to build a home, or a tube as the case may be. As they grow, they shed their skin four times, then pupate. All at […]

Contact: Dianne Jackson, 581-2401 ORONO — Diane Jackson, clinical instructor in special education in the UMaine College of Education and Human Development, recently received the Sylvester Service Award from the Learning Disabilities Association of Maine. The award is given to those who are dedicated to providing service to individuals with learning disabilities and attention disorders. […]