Parents in the Orono and Old Town areas will soon be able to feed their young children’s love of reading with “Literacy To Go” — informational text, a storybook and a storyboard all delivered in a themed pizza box kit. The University of Maine Raymond H. Fogler Library is utilizing a $43,000 grant from the […]
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Provost Jeff Hecker focuses on goals for faculty and student success.
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The Associated Press, Bangor Daily News, WVII (Channel 7), Kennebec Journal, WLBZ (Channel 2) and Portland Press Herald were among news organizations to report that Karlton Creech has been named the University of Maine’s director of athletics. UMaine President Paul Ferguson named Creech to the position, effective Feb. 10. Creech is currently the senior associate […]
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The December 2013 issue of Impact, a Maine State Chamber of Commerce publication, featured an article on the University of Maine’s involvement with the Maine Invention Convention. The event is a statewide competition that promotes problem solving and inventing by students in grades five through eight throughout the school year and ends with the statewide […]
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Michael “Mick” Peterson’s recent trip to Turkey to consult with the six major race tracks of the Jockey Club of Turkey was the subject of a story by a horse racing columnist Kadir Kiygir. Since 2004, the UMaine professor of mechanical engineering has contracted with track owners and racing industry leaders to test the strength, […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that for the third year in a row, University of Maine women’s basketball coach Richard Barron has announced he will shave his head after his team’s annual Play4Kay game Feb. 9 if the community raises $10,000 for the Kay Yow Foundation to support breast cancer research. Play4Kay is named after […]
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UMaine senior to direct a benefit production featuring 90 musicians and vocalists.
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University of Maine marine scientist Bob Steneck participated in a Florida State University-led study that recommends a paradigm shift for fisheries science and management. The study spearheaded by FSU biology professor Joe Travis advocates that fisheries experts and managers consider how overfishing and environmental changes disrupt species interactions and alter ecosystems, including pushing some ecosystems […]
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University of Maine President Paul Ferguson has named Karlton Creech director of athletics, effective Feb. 10. Creech, 41, currently senior associate director of athletics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC), will bring 10 years of senior athletics administration experience to UMaine. Creech was one of three finalists invited to interview on campus […]
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Bangor Metro interviewed Susan Lizzotte, head coach of the University of Maine’s swimming and diving teams, and student-athletes Lauren Dwyer and Cody Lachance about the swimming lessons the team offers to local children. Lizzotte, who oversees the program offered to children who are 4 to 13 years old, said each collegiate instructor is assigned to […]
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