Bangor television stations Channel 5 (WABI), Channel 2 (WLBZ) and Channel 7 (WVII) interviewed Cooperative Extension educator and maple syrup expert Kathy Hopkins and Francis Avery, who operates the University of Maine’s Thomas J. Corcoran Sugar House Thursday for a feature on the maple syrup season, now well under way with cold nights and warm […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Producers from “Schooled,” a New England Sports Network (NESN) college quiz show under development, are looking for students to represent UMaine in competition against seven other New England colleges and universities. Current UMaine first-year students, sophomores and juniors are eligible. Open casting sessions are scheduled for Wednesday […]
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Research done by James McConnon, UMaine Cooperative Extension specialist and economics professor, was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News column about women and work. The column, which is the first of a new series called Women@Work, states McConnon’s research has found 30 percent of microbusinesses in Maine are owned by women.
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Bangor television station WABI noted Saturday’s broom hockey benefit game featuring the UMaine women’s hockey team against the Third Watch Hockey Club. The game, which will take place starting at 2 p.m. at Alfond Arena, is a benefit for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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UMaine physiologist Harold “Dusty” Dowse was the subject of a BDN story in its Conversations with Maine series. Dowse discussed his interest in breadmaking, karate, and how he came to teach comparative anatomy at UMaine.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout was interviewed by the Bangor Daily News in advance of her visit to UMaine next week. Strout, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for her fictional work, “Olive Kitteridge,” will be on campus March 22-24 to speak to writing classes and give a public reading of the book at […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about a group of UMaine professors who will spend a month in the Netherlands working at a wind turbine testing facility. The researchers, including AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center director Habib Dagher, will test three models for deepwater offshore turbines at the Marine Research Institute Netherlands.
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Contact: Victoria Blanchette, 581-2204; Sandy Caron, 207-581-3138 ORONO — Joanne Herman, author of “Transgender Explained for Those Who Are Not,” will be available for a book-signing and to meet members of the UMaine community Tuesday, March 29 from 3-4 p.m. at the University Bookstore. Herman, a transgender female since 2002, will read a passage from […]
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Contact: Maine Studies office, (207) 581-3147 The University of Maine’s Maine Studies program is offering two Student Research and Creativity Awards of $250 each for excellence in Maine-released research projects. All UMaine research papers or projects that are Maine-related and were written within the last year are eligible, and all UMaine students, both part-time and […]
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UMaine’s Paul Mayewski is set to give a talk on Thursday, March 31, about the role humans play in climate change, according to a Bangor Daily News story. Mayewski, the director of the Climate Change Institute at UMaine, will speak in Hutchins Hall at the Collins Center for the Arts. The talk, which starts at […]
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