The Bangor Daily News on Thursday carried a feature story about the UMaine Black Bear Mentors Program, run through the Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism. Now in its seventh year, the program pairs UMaine students with area youth in their schools for games, mentoring and discussions. Program coordinator Erin Lennon says the program focuses […]
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The Gloucester County Times, a New Jersey newspaper, has a story about one of the finalists for the UMaine presidential position. Dr. Donald Farish, the current president of Rowan University, said he was pleased to be a finalist.
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Discovery News, the website of television’s Discovery Channel, wrote about a UMaine graduate student’s discovery of the oldest domesticated dog in the Americas, a find based on bone fragments the student discovered a human paleofecal sample. The New York Times also ran a story about the find, as did the Pakistan Daily Mail.
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Shannon Folsom, a UMaine sophomore from Saco, was crowned Miss Collegiate America earlier this month at a pageant in Texas. Comments from Folsom, an Honors College student studying kinesiology, are included in a Bangor Daily News feature story published on Monday.
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Contact: Marilynne Mann, 581-3110; Jonathan Rubin, 581-1528; Stephen Reiling, 581-3237 ORONO — The blizzards than blanket streets, driveways and walks may seem somewhat of an inconvenience for some Mainers, but for many others, the rule is the more snow the better. University of Maine economics researchers say the cost of cleaning up after storms is […]
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UMaine’s Lunar Habitat, Wireless Sensing Laboratory Opening Friday Contact: Ali Abedi, (207) 581-2231 or abedi@eece.maine.edu The world’s first inflatable lunar habitat, which was assembled on the University of Maine campus last fall and will be a test site for NASA as it prepares for voyages to the moon, Mars and Venus, will be unveiled Friday […]
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Contact: Paul Myer, (207) 581-1992; Jason Harkins, (207) 217-4798 ORONO — Five Maine Business School graduate students representing the University of Maine at the 2010 Molson International Case Competition in Montreal, Canada recently performed well, finishing in the top half of 36 invited business school from across the globe. The UMaine team finished 14th overall […]
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The Bangor Daily News and WABI both had stories about UMaine’s 15th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast and other events surrounding Monday’s holiday. WABI aired a piece about MLK Diversity Day, sponsored by UMaine’s Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism, the Office of Multicultural Programs, and the athletic department. Lauren Wagner, a service coordinator […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Ramesh and Pushpa Gupta, professors in the University of Maine Department of Mathematics and Statistics, were invited to conduct a workshop on mixture models in statistics, organized and funded by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Malaya, December 28, 2010. Ramesh presented two one-hour lectures: “Frailty […]
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National Geographic magazine’s website has a story about the discovery of the oldest domestic dog in the Americans, which was made by Samuel Belknap, a UMaine graduate student. Belknap found a skull fragment from a dog in a human paleofecal sample, providing the earliest evidence of human consumption of dogs in the New World. More […]
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