Contact: Richard Kersbergen, (207) 342-5971; Jen O’Leary (207) 581-3106 ORONO, Maine–A team headed by Rick Kersbergen, University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor, has received the Northeast Extension Directors’ Award of Excellence 2006 for “Building an Organic Dairy Research and Extension Program.” The award was presented during a recognition dinner last month in Washington, DC.  Kersbergen […]

Contact: Ruth Hallsworth (207) 581-3196; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research at UMaine has announced that the 2007 Maine Water Conference will be held Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at the Augusta Civic Center.     This year’s conference will feature keynote speaker M. Gordon “Reds” […]

Contact: David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — Sean T. James has been selected as New Hampshire’s Young Engineer of the Year by the New Hampshire section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (NHASCE). James received both his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in civil engineering from UMaine, completing his master’s degree program in […]

Contact: Andrew DeFillipp at (207) 581-4161 ORONO – Beta Theta Pi, the University of Maine’s oldest fraternity, will hold its 14th annual sleep-out to raise money and awareness for Rape Response Services of Bangor on Friday, Feb. 23. Rape Response Services of Bangor helps to educate the community about the issues surrounding sexual assault, while […]

Contact: Michelle Morneault or Dylan Moody, 581-4162; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Dozens of UMaine fraternity and sorority members will doff their duds at 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 10, for the first Greek Life polar bear dip to benefit the Boys and Girls Club of the Penobscot Nation. Forecasters are predicting Saturday’s highs to reach […]

Contact: Jose Cordero, 581-1425; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Paul Rusesabagina, hero of the film “Hotel Rwanda,” is among the speakers coming to the University of Maine for Black History Month and Human Rights Week events this month. He is scheduled to speak Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Maine Center for the Arts. […]

Contact: Judy Round 581-5104 ORONO, Maine — Ted Ames, member of Stonington Fisheries Alliance (SFA) and captain/owner of the FV Mary Elizabeth in the Zone C lobster fishery, will give the 2007 University of Maine Geddes W. Simpson Distinguished Lecture. The lecture is scheduled for 3 p.m. April 11 in the McIntire Room of UMaine’s […]

Contact: Bob Potts, Alumni Programs & Marketing; (207) 581-1149 / 1 (800) 934-2586 ORONO, Me. –The University of Maine Alumni Association has announced the recipients of its 2007 Alumni Awards. They are as follows: Alumni Career Award (UMAA’s highest honor): Col. William Smullen ’62, Fayetteville, New York (Retired Colonel, United States Army; former Chief of […]

Contact: Michael Grillo, 581-3252; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — A new art exhibit opening Feb. 9 at the Lord Hall Galleries on the University of Maine’s Orono campus uses work by seven internationally renowned photographers to assess the meaning and objectivity of the camera as a means of documentation. “Documentation: Photography as Witness” brings together […]

Contact: Peg Cruikshank, 581-1228; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The title of her newly revised anthology, Fierce with Reality: An Anthology of Literature on Aging, embodies the paradoxes that come with the consideration of aging for Margaret “Peg” Cruikshank, author and lecturer in women’s studies at UMaine. So does the frustration Cruikshank feels when doctors […]