Recently the University of Maine recognized 2,035 students for achieving Deans List honors in the Fall 2012 semester. Of the students who made the Deans List, 1,696 are from Maine, 277 are from out of state, and 62 are from foreign countries. Listed below are students who received Deans List honors for the 2012 Fall […]
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University of Maine Professor of Political Science Amy Fried, in her Bangor Daily News blog Pollways, discusses the resurgence of culture, arts and educational quality in Bangor and says severe budget cuts proposed by the LePage administration in Augusta threaten to undermine the city’s success.
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Maine Public Broadcasting Network aired the second part of a discussion about the value of a “tourism quality label” with Harold Daniel, associate professor of marketing in the Maine Business School at the University of Maine, and retired Bowdoin Professor David Vail. They said the increasingly common marketing tool that might be ascribed to certain […]
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The play “One Blue Tarp” written by Travis Baker, a University of Maine Department of English adjunct faculty member, has received the Best Play from the State of Maine award in the 2013 Clauder New England Playwright Competition, hosted by the Portland Stage Company. He’ll receive the award at a May 18 reception in Portland. […]
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University of Maine Professor of History Howard Segal presented the annual James Brown Lecture to a general audience at the Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft Jan. 23 on “FDR and TVA: Promise and Disappointment.” The talk was cosponsored by the Thompson Free Library, Center Theatre and the Foxcroft Academy Social Studies Department.
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The online maritime news website MarineLink.com has posted a University of Maine news release about the $4 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy to the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center for continued research and development of a pilot offshore wind energy turbine system. The funding is expected to leverage as much as […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that University of Maine System Board of Trustees on Jan. 28 approved a $3.2 million project to renovate Estabrooke Hall at the University of Maine and convert the dormitory to a new “collaborative and active learning classroom” and create space for the UMaine Honors College, the newspaper said. Trustees also […]
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The 5th Annual Maine VEX Robotics Championship, a robotics competition for middle and high school students, will be held from 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2 at Cape Elizabeth Middle School, organized by the University of Maine Black Bear Robotics Club. Upward of 30 student teams will begin arriving at 8 a.m. to begin practicing. […]
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts will present the Silver Duo in concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, in Minsky Recital Hall on campus. The Silver Duo — UMaine faculty members pianist Phillip and cellist Noreen Silver — will perform with special guest violinist Lydia Forbes. The program will include works for […]
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Members of the University of Maine MBS (Maine Business School) Corps were interviewed for a Channel 2 (WLBZ) news report on volunteer assistance the group provided Aunt Nellie’s Attic, a thrift store in Holden that benefits the Hammond Street Senior Center in Bangor. Students shared knowledge about marketing, product placement, customer relations and other aspects […]
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