The University of Maine is planning a Thursday, Nov. 10 pep rally in support of the Black Bear football team. It is scheduled for 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Memorial Union’s Maine Marketplace. The marching band and cheerleaders will perform in the atrium outside the UMaine bookstore, while speakers including President Paul Ferguson and football coach […]
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Former Bangor Daily News executive editor Mark Woodward will moderate a discussion involving former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen and Retired U.S. Marine General James Jones, the first National Security Advisor in the Obama Administration, on Thursday Nov. 17 at the University of Maine. The moderated discussion on the Arab Spring, a series of […]
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A fully functional table saw, a $45 flashlight, a bag of canned food, baby strollers, car seats, plastic toys, bowling balls and returnable bottles and cans are some of the things residents of Maine communities have thrown in the trash this past summer and fall.
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UMaine football player Warren Smith was the subject of a feature story in the Press of Atlantic City newspaper. The New Jersey native, a quarterback for the Black Bears, has led UMaine to a 7-2 overall record so far this fall. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Several news outlets noted the news that UMaine has been awarded a grant to study early detection methods for red tide, a toxin found in some mudflat where shellfish are harvested and which can lead to a potentially fatal human illness. Portland’s WGME TV station covered the announcement, and the Boston Herald ran an Associated […]
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Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty was interviewed for a Seacoast Online story looking ahead to Tuesday’s statewide election. Brewer thinks turnout could be as high as 35 percent, due in part to significant television advertising related to the referendum questions. He also commented in a Lewiston Sun Journal story looking at the […]
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Retired U.S. Marine Gen. James L. Jones, who served as the first National Security Advisor in the Obama administration, will visit the University of Maine on Thursday, Nov. 17 to deliver a William S. Cohen Lecture. The talk is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts.
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UMaine anthropologist Dan Sandweiss was quoted extensively in an Oct. 21 story in Science, looking at new evidence suggesting a human presence in the Americas 13,800 years ago. That date precedes the Clovis culture, long believed to be the New World’s first, by almost 1,000 years. The new findings, developed by a group led by […]
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University of Maine associate professor Marcella Sorg, director of the Rural Drug and Alcohol Research Program at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, was interviewed for an article in the Village Soup’s Herald Gazette about a new report from the Centers for Disease Control on the three-fold increase in drug overdose deaths in the U.S. […]
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The Rockland-based Free Press newspaper carried a report on the Oct. 26 wind power forum held at the University of Maine, which provided a panel discussion of the topic by experts, including UMaine professor Gary Hunt of the School of Economics. Hunt has studied the cost of wind power generation and said wind energy is […]
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