The Central Maine Morning Sentinel carried a news story about the announcement that UMaine is taking over daily operation and programs of the Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan. Charles Morris, a senior research associate at UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, told the newspaper the move is an important one for the university system […]
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A UMaine professor has posted a YouTube video in which he asks pop singer Pink if she will perform a Christmas duet with him in order to raise funds for female mass rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Habib Dagher, the director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was interviewed by the Al Jazeera network for a TV report on the prospects of deepwater offshore wind power in the Gulf of Maine. Dagher told Al Jazeera the goal is to replace gasoline and heating oil with clean energy from the gulf.
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Efforts by the Knowledge Transfer Alliance (KTA) and Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) to help a Brewer manufacturer that retrofits shipping containers into housing units were mentioned in a Bangor Daily News story. The KTA is an initiative within UMaine’s School of Economics that helps Maine communities and businesses overcome hardships cause by economic or natural […]
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Wayne Maines, UMaine’s director of Safety, Environmental Management, Transportation and Security, and his family were featured in a Boston Globe story about Maines’ daughter Nicole, who is a transgender child. The story illustrates the experiences of transgender children and their parents. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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A New York Times op-ed piece about hazing cited a 2008 study done by UMaine education faculty members Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden. The study found that most college students involved in clubs, teams and organizations experience hazing, but 95 percent never report it. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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In a story about federal funding for offshore wind power projects, the website Cleantechnica.com noted the research being done by UMaine and the DeepCwind Consortium at the AEWC Advanced Structures and Technology Center. The story said UMaine was the recipient of a grant from the Department of Energy for wind power research. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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Sharon Oliver, UMaine’s director of admissions, was interviewed for a Portland Press Herald report about the UMaine System’s strategies to reverse a trend of declining enrollment. Oliver said the admissions department has upgraded its website, added student blogs and started marketing through social media in order to attract more out-of-state students. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Remarks by retired U.S. Marine Gen. James L. Jones, who served as the first National Security Advisor in the Obama administration and called for the U.S. to back NATO when aiding future revolutions abroad, as it did in Libya, will be aired today at 1 p.m. on MPBN’s Speaking in Maine program. Jones delivered his […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) interviewed several UMaine student members of the campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity Thursday who have been camping out near the Mall to draw attention to and raise money for the effort to reduce substandard housing for people who cannot afford improvements. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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