WVII (Channel 7) reported on the second pitch-off event for the Big Gig, a program designed to bring together innovators and entrepreneurs in the Bangor-Orono area and offer networking opportunities. The Big Gig was started by a partnership between the University of Maine, Old Town, Orono, and Husson University and is supported by Blackstone Accelerates […]
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WABI (Channel 5), Morning Sentinel, Kennebec Journal, Portland Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News reported the University of Maine has announced three finalists for its director of athletics position. The finalists are Karlton Creech of the University of North Carolina, Jim Herlihy of the University of Montevallo and Scott Kull of Texas Christian University. […]
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“A Man’s Guide to Healthy Aging: Stay Smart, Strong, and Active,” written by Lenard Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging and professor in the UMaine School of Social Work, and Edward Thompson Jr., was cited by the Wall Street Journal as one of six 2013 top guides to life after 50. […]
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Kenneth Hillas, a retired senior foreign service officer who teaches a graduate seminar in global politics at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece published in the Bangor Daily News titled “As we remember Mandela, don’t simplify his history, legacy.
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WGME (Channel 13) reported University of Maine researchers are working with the Maine Forest Service to track destructive winter moths that are returning to Maine. So far the moths have been found in Harpswell and Cape Elizabeth. The moths can be harmful to plants and crops, such as apples and blueberries.
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The Bangor Daily News published an opinion piece by University of Maine first-year student Grace Marshall, who is studying English. Marshall’s article is titled “If they’re terminal, let Mainers choose how they die.”
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Howard Segal, a history professor at the University of Maine, attended the annual meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Senate in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 5 — the date America’s oldest scholastic honor society was founded at the College of William and Mary in 1776. Segal served as president of the University of Maine chapter […]
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Three finalists have been named for the University of Maine director of athletics position — Karlton Creech of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Jim Herlihy of the University of Montevallo and Scott Kull of Texas Christian University. The candidates will be on campus for interviews beginning Dec. 15. Following the interviews, the UMaine […]
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts’ presentation of “Ein deutsches Requiem” by Johannes Brahms on Dec. 15, conducted by retiring Professor Ludlow Hallman, is dedicated to the memory of those killed during the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The Oratorio Society Concert will be presented with the […]
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WVII (Channel 7) and WABI (Channel 5) spoke with students in the introduction to research diving course offered at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center. Students in the class visited the Orono campus to use the pool to prepare for their final that will allow them to become certified scientific research divers.
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