Year: 2011

Students Developing Online Magazine at UMaine

Channel 5 (WABI) broadcast a Tuesday news story about two students’ efforts to bring the national online magazine Her Campus to UMaine.  Shaina Dennis and Macey Hall were interviewed for the story, describing the magazine, which is aimed at an audience of college women.

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Student Injured in Cold Weather

Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about a UMaine student who suffered cold-weather related injuries to his hands on Saturday night.  The incident led UMaine police to issue a Sunday morning alert reminding students to take precautions when venturing outside during extremely weather conditions.

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News Coverage of Presidential Candidate Visit

The Tuesday campus visit by James Page, a candidate for the UMaine president’s job, was covered by the Bangor Daily News, WABI and WVII.  Page, the CEO of the James W. Sewall Co. in Old Town, will be followed by three other finalists over the next two weeks.  More information on the UMaine search is […]

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Farley Profiled in Book on Jamaica

The Jamaica Observer’s “Wignall’s World” column notes that Jonathan Farley of the UMaine computer science faculty is profiled in a new book, “Jamaica’s Gifts to the World,” a series of profiles of Jamaicans of notable achievement.

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Library Staffer Helps Youngster Fulfill Her Dream

Monday’s Bangor Daily News included a story about the efforts of Albie Dunn, who works in technical services at Fogler Library, to teach an Old Town girl with physical disabilities how to skate.  Seven-year-old Kaymi Hunt is a participant in the Penobscot Valley Hockey Conference’s Learn to Skate Program, where Dunn is a coach who’s […]

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Cobo-Lewis Column in Tuesday BDN

Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News includes an op-ed column by Alan Cobo-Lewis of the UMaine psychology faculty.  In the column, Cobo-Lewis expresses concern about two provisions of Maine’s supplemental budget bill, both of which relate to Child Development Services.  CDS, as Cobo-Lewis describes it in the column, “provides early intervention and early childhood special education to […]

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Volunteers Sought for Fresh Tomato Evaluation

Contact: Mary Ellen Camire, 581-1627 The Consumer Testing Center in the University of Maine Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition is looking for about 100 volunteers to provide opinions of fresh tomatoes on Tuesday, Jan. 25. Volunteers can participate in one of two different sessions: 11 a.m.- 1:30 p.m., or  4-5:30 p.m. Testing sessions […]

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UMaine Part of 4-Year Regional Effort to Conserve Tidal Marshes

Contact: Brian Olsen, (207) 581-2542 or brian.olsen@maine.edu The salt-water tidal marshes along Maine’s coast are part of an intricate network of waterways along the eastern North American coast that are unique globally. Yet the marshes are disappearing due to rising sea water levels and the development of inland and coastal areas. University of Maine bird […]

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Students, Employers Ready for UMaine Career Fair 2011

Contact: Patty Counihan, 581-1355 ORONO — The University of Maine is holding its annual Career Fair Wednesday, Jan. 26 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Student Fitness and Recreation Center on the Orono campus. Some 85 companies, organizations and graduate school programs have registered to exhibit at the fair this year, and are looking forward […]

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News Report Describes Mineral Discovery

Former UMaine Ph.D. student Jeffrey Marsh’s discovery of the mineral menzerite-Y is detailed in a Monday Bangor Daily News story.  Marsh, who now teaches at Colby College, found the mineral in Iceland while he was a UMaine student in 2009.  The story also includes comments from UMaine Prof. Edward Grew.

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