UMaine News

Contact: Nory Jones, 581- 1995; Nancy Dysart, 973-5055; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO–It won’t exactly be the Clash of the Titans, but a group of University of Maine Business School faculty have challenged the UMaine women’s hockey team to a 10-minute game of broomball, a fundraising battle on ice, Jan. 29, during the period breaks at […]

Contact: Carla Fearon, (207) 817-7355, Laura Lindenfeld, (207) 581-3850, John Bear Mitchell, (207) 581-1417; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO–Dozens of Penobscot Nation children will have a chance to become songwriters as a result of a special cultural project taking place in April through a collaboration of the Penobscot Nation Boys and Girls Club and the […]

Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO–Part-time Women’s Studies faculty member Margaret Cruikshank has been awarded an honorable mention by a national human rights center for her latest book, “Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture and Aging.” The book, published in 2003 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., of Boulder, Colo. was one of fewer than […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO–The highly anticipated report, Sports Done Right – A Call to Action on Behalf of Maine’s Student Athletes, will be unveiled Jan. 6, 2005 at the Augusta Civic Center. Superintendents, school board members, athletic directors, student-athletes and community recreation representatives are expected to attend the event, receive a copy […]

Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777, houtman@maine.edu ORONO–Paul Smitherman is counting on radon. The radioactive gas has been the subject of research at the University of Maine and elsewhere for more than 20 years, largely as a potential health risk in homes, schools and work places. No one, however, has yet to satisfactorily […]

Contact: Vivianne Holmes, University of Maine Cooperative Extension, 207-353-5557, vholmes@umext.maine.edu ORONO–Women who own forest land have an opportunity to convene informal “kitchen table” gatherings with other women who own and manage forest lands in Maine. The Women and the Woods (WAW) program is seeking women to serve as hosts or facilitators for locally organized meetings […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO–John Beacon, UMaine’s assistant provost and dean of enrollment management, is leaving UMaine to become vice provost for enrollment management at Western Michigan University. Beacon has been at UMaine since 1997. During that time, UMaine’s overall enrollment has increased from 9,213 to the current 11,358. The number of new […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571; Alan Parks, 581-1236 ORONO–When managers of Maine government’s websites needed help using specialized software to make their websites accessible to all users, they turned to The University of Maine’s Howard Mosher, UM Webmaster, and Alan Parks, coordinator of dissemination and technology at the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability […]

Contact: Paul Mayewski, Climate Change Institute, 207-581-3019, paul.mayewski@maine.edu; Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777. Houtman@maine.edu ORONO – A team led by University of Maine scientists has reported finding a potential link between changes in solar activity and the Earth’s climate. In a paper due to be published in an upcoming volume of the Annals […]

Contact: Harvey Kail, (207) 581-3829; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO–University of Maine Associate Professor Harvey Kail recently received a national honor for his work encouraging student collaborations as coordinator of the peer tutoring program at the UMaine Writing Center at Neville Hall. Kail received the 2004 Ron Maxwell Award for Distinguished Leadership in Promoting the […]