It will be a homecoming for two University of Maine students when UMaine’s Concert Band performs a run-out concert Thursday, March 20, at Wagner Middle School in Winterport. Aaron Beaulieu, a first-year mechanical engineering student, began playing the trumpet in the fifth grade. Jay Baines, a civil engineering major also in his first year at […]
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UMaine alumnus co-founder of Tastemade, the world’s first global food network built for digital platforms.
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Recent environmental horticulture grad applies landscaping methods learned at UMaine to internship at Walt Disney World Resorts.
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WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) interviewed Jenny Shrum, a Ph.D. candidate in the ecology and environmental sciences graduate program in the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology. Shrum is researching the biophysical relationships between weather and sap flow. Her goal is to better understand what drives flow and how expected trends […]
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WGME (Channel 13) interviewed Amy Blackstone, an associate professor and chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Maine, for a report titled “More couples choose life without kids.” Blackstone’s research focuses on childfree couples and their motivations for not having children. She said some of the most common stereotypes of the childfree is […]
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Dennis Cox, professor of music and director of the Choral Music Program at the University of Maine, spoke with WVII (Channel 7) about preparing for his final tour directing the University Singers. Cox, who came to UMaine in 1978, announced he will retire at the end of the school year. Daniel Williams, associate director of […]
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Woody Higgins, who helps organize the annual Eastern Maine Sportsmen’s Show for the Penobscot County Conservation Association, told the Bangor Daily News event attendees will likely notice the newly renovated New Balance Field House at the University of Maine where the show will take place. He said he thinks people “will be impressed with the […]
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A Portland Press Herald article about proposed waterfront concert venues in South Portland and Westbrook cites a study by Todd Gabe, an economics professor at the University of Maine. Gabe’s study found Bangor’s Waterfront Concerts have generated more than $30 million in local spending in the first three years of the series.
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A Maine Public Broadcasting Network report titled “Bill to protect Maine lakes sparks disagreement,” cited information from former University of Maine graduate student Ian McCullough’s study on water clarity in Maine lakes. The study found the clarity in Maine’s lakes has declined since 1995.
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The University of Maine Museum of Art was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald article about the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock announcing it received 290 watercolors and drawings by the modernist John Marin, who spent much of his life and career in Maine. The gift was courtesy of Marin’s daughter-in-law Norma B. Marin, […]
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