UMaine News

Contact: Todd Saucier, President/Executive Director, UMaine Alumni Association, todd.saucier@umit.maine.eduBob Potts, Marketing & Creative Services Manager, UMaine Alumni Association, bob.potts@umit.maine.edu, (207) 581-2586 ORONO, ME  — The University of Maine Alumni Association has announced that Rachael Wardwell, Class of 2008, is the winner of the Alumni Association tuition raffle.   The UMaine Alumni Association sponsors the raffle […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Upward Bound will mark its 40th year at the University of Maine this month as 175 high school sophomores, juniors and seniors arrive Saturday, June 24 for the annual six-week academic and career exploration experience on campus. A federally funded educational opportunity program, Upward Bound provides […]

Contact: Len Kaye, 581-3483; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – It’s a long way between the people in rural Maine communities and national healthcare policy-makers in Washington, D.C., but a blue ribbon committee serving as eyes and ears for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will be in Camden, Maine on June 11-13, looking […]

Contact: Vivianne Holmes, 800-287-1458 or 207-353-5550 ORONO –The Women and the Woods program will hold a “kitchen table” meetings for woman woodland owners all around Maine between now and December. The first session, on marketing, marking boundary lines, deeds, and soils in a woodlot, is scheduled for Thursday June 15. This event will be held […]

Contact: Associate Extension Professor Mark Hutchinson, 207-832-0343 ORONO–University of Maine Cooperative Extension, in partnership with the Maine Department of Agriculture, has published “Safe Disposal of Backyard Poultry Mortalities,” a bulletin with step-by-step instructions for composting poultry mortalities safely. Many Mainers keep poultry, and mortalities can occur even in well-cared-for flocks. Proper disposal of carcasses minimizes […]

Contact: Joseph Zydlewski (207) 581-2853; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — UMaine researchers Joseph Zydlewski, Michael Kinnison and Christopher Holbrook will continue to develop effective methods for assessing the migratory success of Maine’s endangered Atlantic salmon populations with the help of a $95,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Their project, which […]

Contact: Rick Kersbergen (207) 342-5971; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – When it comes to producing organic milk in Maine, UMaine Cooperative Extension researcher Rick Kersbergen is definitely the farmer’s friend. Assisting the state’s organic milk producers with everything from forage crops to farmyard pests, Kersbergen has made it his mission to provide agricultural […]

Contact: Tucker Kimball (207) 582-4790; Rick Kersbergen (207) 342-5971; David Munson (207) 581-3777 GARDINER, Maine — The Maine Technology Institute board of directors recently approved a cluster enhancement award aimed at stimulating Maine’s organic dairy farm industry. The $78,000 award, matched by a co-investment of $827,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, went to UMaine […]

Contact: Dorothy Croall (207) 581-2829; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — For more than two decades, UMaine Biochemistry professor Dorothy Croall has studied a critically important family of enzymes known as calpains. The enzymes are thought to be important contributors to basic cellular functions, as well as to the pathology of cancer and several […]

Contact: Steven Adam (207) 581-2262; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — When it comes to making the most of energy resources, UMaine alumus George Sakellaris is a man with a plan. Known across the country as one of the foremost leaders in the development of comprehensive energy plans for business and industry, Sakellaris was […]