UMaine News

Contact: Lenard Kaye, 581-3483; Marcia Sibley, (207) 794-6700; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine Center on Aging is using technology — the Internet — to help provide several new services for grandparents and other relatives who serve as foster parents in remote parts of northern Penobscot and southern Aroostook counties. The Center on Aging […]

Contact: Emily Ann Cain, Coordinator of Advancement, Honors College, 207-581-3263 ORONO — Nicklaus Laverty, a 2006 Honors College graduate from the University of Maine is one of 77 students nationwide to earn a Graduate Scholarship in the nationally competitive Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Program. Laverty competed with 1,100 nominees to earn this distinction. The Graduate […]

Contact: Francois Amar, 581-1168George Manlove, 581-3756 Digital photo available upon request. ORONO – University of Maine chemistry professor Fran

Contact: Mary Dinsmore, Pine Tree State 4-H Foundation phone 207 581-3327, fax 207 581-1387, e-mail mdinsmore@umext.maine.edu Editors’ note: Students mentioned in this release are from the following communities: Windham, Alfred, Gilead, Cornish, Glenburn, Norway and Albion. ORONO, ME — Several local students were awarded $1,000 scholarships at the Pine Tree State 4-H Foundation’s recent annual […]

Contact: Nancy Boyington, 338-8002 Joe Carr at 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine School of Social Work and the university’s Hutchinson Center in Belfast are developing the capacity to offer undergraduate courses, beginning this fall, to complete a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work (BASW) in the evenings at the Belfast location.  Building on […]

Contact: Laura Wilson, 207-581-2971, lwilson@umext.maine.edu Digital Images Available ORONO, ME–The eroding shore of Glenburn

Contact: Bob Potts, Advisor, Senior Skull Honor Society (207) 581-1149 or 1-800-934-2586 ORONO, Me. — The Senior Skull Honor Society at the University of Maine in Orono has announced its newest inductees, the Class of 2007. The Senior Skull Honor Society was founded in 1906 to publicly recognize, formally reward, and continually promote outstanding leadership […]

Contact: Paige Lilly, (207) 581-2665 / paige.lilly@umit.maine.edu ORONO — With the mid-term elections only months away, critics of Congress seem to be everywhere. But how well do they (or we) understand how Congress really works? A new exhibit from the William S. Cohen Papers at the Raymond H. Fogler Library seeks to shed light on […]

Contact: Ginger Hwalek, 991-2785George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – More that 350 middle and high school students from Maine and throughout New England have been on campus in the last two weeks for 2006 Maine Summer Youth Music Camp. Ensemble and practice rooms in the Class of 1944 Hall are abuzz with young people spending a […]

Contact: Patricia Henner, 581-4100George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum is planning its annual pot luck picnic for all ages July 30 – a time for socializing, fun and games of old, including croquette, horseshoes, jump rope, relays and potato-sack races. The free family event is part of the museum’s […]