Year: 2014

Media Preview ‘Aging in Maine’ Documentary

The Kennebec Journal and Bangor Daily News reported on the Camden International Film Festival’s (CIFF) Aging in Maine documentary screening tour that launches March 18 at the University of Maine. The UMaine screening will be presented in partnership with the UMaine Center on Aging. The tour features a number of acclaimed films from CIFF, and […]

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Bangor Daily Runs Student Op-Ed

The Bangor Daily News carried an op-ed coauthored by University of Maine student Samantha Perez. She and other members of Divest UMaine have encouraged the Investment Committee of the University of Maine System Board of Trustees to stop investing endowment funds in the fossil fuel industry.

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BDN Editorial on Lobsters Cites Wahle, Pershing

The Bangor Daily News March 14 editorial “Maine’s lobster industry might not last forever. Then what?” quoted two University of Maine faculty members. Rick Wahle, a research professor at the School of Marine Sciences, cited the movement of lobster postlarvae from more southern waters to Down East as evidence of warming ocean temperatures. Andrew Pershing, […]

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BDN Reports on Rice’s Role with Timber Company

The Bangor Daily News reported on wood science professor Robert Rice’s efforts to assist Maine Heritage Timber Co. with its production of specialty lumber from timber submerged since the early 1800s in Millinocket’s Quakish Lake. In “UMaine professor helps business take wood from bottom of lake to the showroom,” Rice highlights UMaine’s mission to serve […]

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PPH Reviews Cole’s Exhibit at UMMA

The Portland Press Herald reviewed the University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA) installation of Kenny Cole’s “Parabellum (Prepare for War).” Reviewer Daniel Kany said the exhibit that uses a fictional Civil War veteran to inspire questions about war in America is “a genuine and humble dedication to wanting what is right and good for […]

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Creech Talks About Coaching Evaluations

The Portland Press Herald spoke with University of Maine athletic director Karlton Creech about men’s basketball coach Ted Woodward, who has two years remaining on his contract. Creech said he had not yet met with Woodward for an end-of-the-season evaluation. Creech praised the team, which compiled a 6–23 record, for playing hard despite the mounting […]

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Media Outlets Report on Joseph’s Arrest

The Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, Washington Post, WABI-TV, WFLX, and WMTW were among the media organizations reporting that former University of Maine student-athlete Zedric Joseph was being held in connection with a March 7 double stabbing that killed a man and injured a woman in West Palm Beach, Fla.

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Pariser Lecture on the Department of Art Website

A video of the recent Wyeth Family Heritage Lecture by Dr. David Pariser of Concordia University is on the University of Maine Department of Art website. In his lecture titled “The Juvenile Work of World-Class Artists,” Pariser discusses his research involving development of childhood graphic skills in gifted children.

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UMaine Earns Gold

The University of Maine, one of four recipients of the 2014 Gold Star Standards of Excellence awards from the Maine Tobacco-Free College Network, will be recognized at a ceremony March 19 in Bangor. Following the ceremony, a peer-to-peer tobacco-free college workshop will focus on successes and challenges of adopting, implementing and enforcing tobacco-free campus policies.

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