The Bangor Daily News has a story about UMaine’s search for a new athletic director. The search is expected to start in January. The athletic department is currently under the direction of interim AD Steve Abbott, an Orono native who was a Republican gubernatorial candidate last year.
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Brenda Harvey, a UMaine graduate who is currently commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, is leaving that post to become executive director of the New England States Consortium Systems Organization, according to the Portland Press Herald. NESCSO is a nonprofit organization affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School whose mission […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported about the sons of late UMaine men’s ice hockey coach Shawn Walsh. Following his transfer from Michigan State, Tyler Walsh is now a student at UMaine and Black Bear hockey team manager. His brother, Travis Walsh, is playing in the United States Hockey league and will attend MSU in 2012. […]
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Contact: Sue Erich, (207) 581-2997 The University of Maine Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences, along with the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station Analytical Laboratory and Soil Testing Service, will host Dr. Will Brinton, the founder and president of Woods End Laboratory in Mt. Vernon, for a seminar starting at 10 a.m. on […]
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Contact: Diane Khiel (dkhiel@adelphia.net) ORONO — The Greater Bangor Area NAACP and the University of Maine will present the 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast Celebration on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 at UMaine’s Wells Conference Center. The event is scheduled for 8:30-10:30 a.m., with doors opening at 8 a.m. The UMaine student singing group Renaissance is […]
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The VillageSoup Web site features a UMaine news release about a recent donation to the UMaine equine program by the Maine Farriers Association.
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WVII television interviewed UMaine police chief Roland LaCroix for a story describing UMaine’s emergency notification procedures (umaine.edu/emergency). The story was developed following last week’s news reports indicating that a U.S. Dept. of Education report says that Virginia Tech did not provide the required timely notifications during the April 2007 shooting on that campus.
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — In a show of appreciation for the University of Maine’s support of the equine industry, the Maine Farriers Association presented a cash donation to UMaine’s equine program on Dec. 10. The association’s $1,500 donation was to thank the students, faculty and staff associated with the UMaine program […]
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included an op-ed column by President Kennedy. The column describes the benefits of public-private partnerships in helping UMaine achieve its goals and serve the state.
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Monday’s Portland Press Herald includes a guest column by labor historian Charles Scontras, a research associate in UMaine’s Bureau of Labor Education. The column looks at the “meteoric rise” of the Knights of Labor in Portland in the late 19th century. Scontras describes that organization as the nation’s “first major labor movement.”
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