Former UMaine hockey All-American Jack Capuano has been named interim head coach of the National Hockey League’s New York Islanders. Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News has a story about Capuano and his new job, announced on Monday by Islanders general manager (also a former Black Bear hockey player) Garth Snow. Capuano, who lives in Bangor with […]
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Prof. Dan Harrison of the UMaine wildlife ecology faculty is featured in a WABI television story about issues related to wolves in the Maine woods. The report was the first in a two-part series scheduled to conclude on Tuesday evening’s news.
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Contact: CCA Box Office, 581-1755 Celebrated dancer, choreographer and artistic collaborator Alison Chase, founding artistic director of the Pilobolus Dance Theater, will perform Friday, Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts at UMaine. Details are available on the CCA website.
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Comments from Mick Peterson of the UMaine mechanical engineering faculty are included in a Bangor Daily News story reporting on a tidal power forum held Saturday at Maine Maritime Academy.
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A Sunday WLBZ television story included perspectives from Paul Myer of the UMaine business faculty, discussing the demise of the printed telephone book. In the business context, Myer says, those publications are a “historical relic.”
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Laura Wilson from the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty was featured in a WLBZ (Channel 2) news story about the importance of having well water tested for contaminants. The report says that more than half of Mainers get their water from wells.
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Monday’s Boston Globe includes a story about “bridge-in-a-backpack” technology created at UMaine. The story features comments from Prof. Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, along with Brit Svoboda, chief executive of Advanced Infrastructure Technologies. His company licenced the technology from UMaine to develop it for commercial applications.
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Contact Kristen Grant, (207) 646-1555 x115, kristen.grant@maine.edu Across the country, fishermen, kayakers, town officials, and waterfront property owners face local conflicts over access to beaches, rivers, and shorelines. In Maine, where such conflicts revealed a need for information about legal mechanisms for addressing coastal access issues, Maine Sea Grant created an online access resource with […]
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ORONO — Jonathan Rubin, a professor in the University of Maine School of Economics and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, has been appointed chair of a national committee looking at issues related to energy use and efficiency in passenger and freight transportation. The Transportation Energy Committee, which Rubin now chairs, is part of the Transportation […]
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a report about Friday’s UMaine forum, “The Promise and Problem of Transparency.” The session, which featured an address by Cary Coglianese of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, was part of UMaine’s William S. Cohen Papers Forum series. It was sponsored by UMaine’s Fogler Library (home of the Cohen papers), […]
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