University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer discussed Maine Republican politics and the upcoming caucuses in the state for the Feb. 5 edition of the Inside America program on ABC NewsRadio, a national Australian radio news station with nearly a million listeners. Brewer discussed the state’s political climate and the lurch to the right with the […]
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Brazilian student Lucas Ramos is studying chemical engineering at the University of Maine courtesy of Science Without Borders, a program funded by the Brazilian government and aimed at advancing that country’s economic standing and technological expertise. The program eventually will place 100,000 promising students at participating colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad, covering […]
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Maine Animal Club students at the University of Maine are hosting this year’s annual Northeast Student Affiliate of the American Dairy Science Association and American Society of Animal Science competition Feb 18. More than college 200 students from 10 Northeast schools will compete in livestock judging, an agricultural quiz bowl and a paper presentation contest. […]
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UMaine announced Sunday that Black Bear student athletes Kelly Newton of the field hockey team and Andrew Rogers of the men’s basketball team are the recipients of the 2012 “M” Club Dean Smith Awards. The awards are presented annually to the top male and female student-athlete with outstanding academic and athletic achievement, along with citizenship […]
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Bangor TV station WABI had a story on a project at the University of Maine Museum of Art in which Maine youth are painting thousands of red roses to help artist Tim Rollins create a painting about legendary Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Smith was known for wearing a red rose on her lapel. Rollins’ painting […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on the news that UMaine’s aerospace engineering concentration has produced its first graduate. Richard McGrath of Westport Island said he took the required three classes after he was laid off from Bath Iron Works. Adjunct professor David Rubenstein, who teaches aeronautics, astronautics, flight dynamics, modeling and control of aircraft and […]
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UMaine business professor Steve Colburn and some of his students were featured in a story on Bangor’s WABI TV station. Colburn’s students are providing free tax assistance at the Orono Public Library this month and next month to those who qualify. Colburn, who is supervising the students, said the program is a way for them […]
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for a story in the Central Maine Morning Sentinel about this year’s elections for Maine House and Senate. Brewer said both houses are up for grabs again after the Republicans took control of both last year, and it is conceivable there could be a change in partisan control. […]
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Hugh Curran, a resident of coastal Surry, Maine who teaches Peace and Reconciliation courses at UMaine, has an opinion column in the Feb. 1 edition of the Ellsworth American, in which he discusses the loss of public “commons” areas in Maine’s Downeast ocean coves and bays. Curran laments the increasing loss of these public areas […]
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UMaine CLAS-Honors Preceptor of Journalism Justin Martin will be interviewed at 2:15 p.m. Friday on WLIP, a Wisconsin-based radio station that broadcasts from Chicago to Milwaukee, about a recent column Martin wrote for the Christian Science Monitor. Martin will talk about the economics of Generation Y. To listen live, go to the WLIP website.
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