WLBZ (Channel 2) spoke with Karlton Creech, University of Maine’s new director of athletics, about a controversy at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill that surrounds allegations of academic fraud involving classes heavily attended by student-athletes. Creech, who served as senior associate director of athletics at UNC, said when the alleged events took place […]
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The Maine Edge reported Russian cellist Alexander Lvovich Volpov will be the guest performer at the University of Maine School of Performing Arts’ faculty concert Jan. 18 in Minsky Recital Hall. Volpov will perform with Phillip Silver, a UMaine music professor.
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The University of Maine football team, led by 21-year head coach Jack Cosgrove, finished the 2013 season ranked No. 11 in the NCAA FCS Coaches Poll and No. 12 in The Sports Network FCS Top-25 Poll. The Black Bears — 10–3 overall — had one of their best seasons in school history. They won the […]
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Mary Lou Friedman, who was employed at the University of Maine’s Sawyer Environmental Chemical Lab for 18 years, passed away Jan. 11, 2014 at 57 years old. Her obituary is available online.
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The University of Maine Museum of Art has announced three winter exhibitions. Hannah Cole’s “Time’s Wife”; Kenny Cole’s “Parabellum (Prepare for War)”; and “From Piranesi to Picasso: Master Prints from the Permanent Collection” will run from Jan. 17 to March 22 at the museum in downtown Bangor. “From Piranesi to Picasso” will feature more than […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a new book published by Sandra Caron, a University of Maine professor of family relations and human sexuality. Caron’s book, “The Sex Lives of College Students: Two Decades of Attitudes and Behaviors,” is based on the results of a sexuality survey she administered to thousands of students over the […]
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Janet Waldron, senior vice president for administration and finance at the University of Maine, was interviewed for a New England Journal of Higher Education article titled “Another Brick in the Wall? Increased Challenges Face the Physical Campus.” Waldron spoke about UMaine President Paul Ferguson’s Blue Sky Plan which includes aggressive enrollment management and a multiyear […]
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WVII (Channel 7) advanced “An Evening of Rodgers and Hammerstein Classics,” a student-run fundraiser for the University of Maine School of Performing Arts. On Jan. 17, Ben McNaboe, a senior music education major at UMaine, will direct about 90 musicians and vocalists in the show he created. He said organizing the event has been a […]
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The Christian Science Monitor cited data from the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute in the article “Global Warming? Public attitudes often at mercy of the weather, study finds.” The article stated when much of North America had unusually cold weather, other areas such as the West Coast of the United States, eastern Asia and […]
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The Portland Press Herald editorial “Our View: Offshore wind the right investment for Maine,” focuses on the proposed offshore wind pilot project being put forward by Maine Aqua Ventus, which includes the University of Maine and partner companies. The Maine Public Utilities Commission is expected to vote Jan. 14 on whether to grant initial approval […]
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