http://www.umaine.edu/newsNews from the University of Maineen-us(c)2008 University of Mainehttp://www.umaine.edu/images/crestlogo.jpghttp://www.umaine.edu/newshttp://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2367<P align=left>ORONO -- Ivan Fernandez, a University of Maine professor of soil science and cooperating professor of forest resources, has been selected as the 2008 Maine Professor of the Year by the C...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2365<P class=MsoNormal>ORONO, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:State><st1:place>Maine</st1:place></st1:State> - The University of <st1:State><st1:place...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2366<P align=left>ORONO, Maine - A University of Maine professor is leading an effort to use Maine's forests to help teach science and math to local high school students.</P> <P align=left>William Livi...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2364<P align=left>ORONO - The University of Maine's Page Farm and Home Museum will hold its annual wreath-making workshops Nov. 29 from 12-2 p.m., and Dec. 2 &amp; 3, from 6-8 p.m., offering participants ...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2362<P>ORONO -- The University of Maine plans a community rally to show support as the Black Bear football rides a six-game winning streak into a Saturday showdown with the University of New Hampshire. </...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2363<P align=left>ORONO - UMaine's College of Engineering, the Maine Arts Commission and Intermedia Visiting Artist Program are presenting a lecture Nov. 24 by renowned West Coast sculptor and site plan a...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2361<P align=left>ORONO, Maine - Photosynthesis generates the oxygen needed for life on earth as well as the biomass for food and biofuel production. The process is driven by the absorption of the sun's e...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2359<P align=left>ORONO, Maine - Using nearly 50 years of data, University of Maine researchers have determined that subglacial floods in East Antarctica caused a rapid and short-lived acceleration of a m...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2360 <P align=left>ORONO -- A group of 16 University of Maine Business School students is conducting a study of Maine residents' attitudes toward tourism. The research involves a brief online survey. The...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2358The MaineCard Online Office is now in service with many of the same functions and services offered by on-campus MaineCard kiosks and the Student Service Center in the Memorial Union. Students,...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2357ORONO - How many ways can you send a message or create a new value-added product with a plastic water bottle? That's precisely what more than a dozen student teams at the University of Maine will pond...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2351<P>ORONO -- University of Maine police, working with the Maine State Police's Computer Crimes Task Force, the Lewiston Police Department and the U.S. Secret Service, have arrested James Wieland, 26, o...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2356<P align=left>ORONO - The UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum will hold its annual Holiday Shoppe craft fair Saturday, Dec. 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.</P> <P align=left>Just in time for the holiday sea...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2348 <p align="left">ORONO, Me.'Some of our traditional holiday meal practices pose potential food-safety threats, according to University of Maine Cooperative Extension experts. For example, consumers s...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2353<P align=left>ORONO - Like the Native Americans at the first Thanksgiving feast, some people today may think they have very strange guests coming to dinner when they see lights in the November sky. </...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2354<P align=left>A University of Maine student in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is one of 22 students in the country who were selected to receive a Greater Research Opportunities fellowship ...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2352<P align=left>ORONO, Maine - A University of Maine psychology professor is part of a delegation of 20 American psychologists currently in China exploring ways to help the world's largest country with ...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2355<P align=left>ORONO - In what may be an unprecedented coalescence of volunteer groups at the University of Maine, students and employees have been responding to an unusually tight economy by raising m...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2349<P align=left>ORONO -- The University of Maine Symphonic Band has been invited by the Bangor High School Band to perform a joint concert at the school's Peakes Auditorium. The concert will take place ...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2350<P align=left>ORONO -- Visitors can already browse digital pages from every University of Maine Prism Yearbook from 1894 to 1997, but volunteers are now entering data that will make the UMaine Yearboo...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2344<P align=left>ORONO -- The Maine Folklife Center will feature Maria Agozzino from Ohio State University on Wednesday, November 12 at noon in the F.F.A. Room in Memorial Union. </P> <P align=left>He...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2346<P class=MsoNormal >The tallies are in, and the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place><st1:PlaceType>University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2345<P align=left>ORONO - UMaine's student-led Green Team is organizing "Energy Action Day" on Friday, Nov. 14, in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union, featuring a lecture, exhibits, discussions, food a...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2347<P align=left>ORONO-- The University of Maine has informed Eastern Maine Medical Center that it has chosen the Bangor-based medical provider's subsidiary Norumbega Medical Specialists LTD to take over...http://www.umaine.edu/news/article.asp?id_no=2342Note: Kaye/Kantrowitz is with a slash rather than a hyphen. Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, an influential writer, poet, activist, scholar and teacher, will deliver the Howard B. Schonberger Peace and...