The Bangor Daily News covered Dexter High School’s Teen Issues Fair Wednesday, which featured visits by UMaine football coach Jack Cosgrove and UMaine women’s basketball coach Cindy Blodgett. Both coaches focused on self-esteem issues in their talks with student groups.
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Contact: Naomi Jacobs, (207) 581-3823 ORONO — The College Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine is hosting Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer Elizabeth Strout and her husband, former Maine Attorney General Jim Tierney, March 22-24 to visit classes, meet with students and deliver a public reading. Strout is the author of three successful […]
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Madawaska native and UMaine alumna Ashley Hebert, fresh off “The Bachelor” television reality show and recently named the next woman to star on “The Bachelorette” reality show, airing in May, was featured on the CNN Entertainment and People websites March 15.
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Contact: Mary Tyler, (207) 581-2559 or Mary.Tyler@umit.maine.edu University of Maine zoology Professor Mary S. Tyler has won the 2011 Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize from the Society of Developmental Biology. Tyler’s research in developmental biology includes the area of genetic controls and tissue interactions during embryonic development, which she examines using experimental and histological techniques. […]
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Contact: Harlan Onsrud, (207) 581-2175 or onsrud@spatial.maine.edu University of Maine Professor Harlan Onsrud was named a Fellow of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) at the organization’s recent spring meeting. Onsrud, a member of the Department of Spatial Information and Science at UMaine, served as president of UCGIS and was instrumental in its […]
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Contact: Brenda Gammon, 356-1172 ORONO — The UMaine Women’s Hockey Team is participating in a broomball game Saturday, March 19 at Alfond Ice Arena with the Bangor area Third Watch Hockey to raise funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The ball drops 2 p.m. Third Watch Hockey is composed of public service people from the Bangor […]
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UMaine’s next president is scheduled for a Thursday morning radio interview on WVOM’s George Hale/Ric Tyler Show. Paul Ferguson, appointed on Monday by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees, will be on the program from approximately 7:34-7:45 a.m. News coverage of Ferguson’s selection has included an Associated Press story on the Chicago Tribune […]
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Contact: Kathryn Jovanelli, (207) 561-3350 or kathryn.jovanelli@umit.maine.edu The University of Maine Museum of Art has two events planned this week. The first, which is part of the museum’s Art@Noon program, will take place Thursday, March 17, with UMMA education coordinator Gina Platt giving a tour and discussing the exhibition “New York, New York: Photographs from […]
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University of Maine historian Elizabeth McKillen has an opinion in the Bangor Daily News in which she defends public-sector unions and gave a history of the unions and the first civil-service laws.
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There was plenty of media coverage, including an article in the Portland Press Herald, as Madawaska native and UMaine graduate Ashley Hebert was named the star of the latest edition of “The Bachelorette.” Hebert, who is currently in dental school at the University of Pennsylvania, finished third on “The Bachelor,” which ended its most recent […]
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