Dick Brucher, professor and chair of the University of Maine’s English Department, will star in the Orono Community Theatre’s production of “Proof,” The Weekly reports. The play, a psychological drama, begins Thursday, Jan. 16 at Cyrus Pavilion Theatre on the UMaine campus.
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The Bangor Daily News published an opinion piece titled “Goodbye, Dirigo Health: What Maine’s program accomplished over 10 years,” by Trish Riley, a senior fellow at the University of Southern Maine’s Muskie School of Public Service, lecturer at George Washington University and principal architect of Dirigo Health Reform. The complete version of the article first […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for an article about a Medicaid study being conducted by a contractor who was hired by Gov. Paul LePage. The study aims to look at ways MaineCare, Maine’s Medicaid program, could grant health insurance to an additional 70,000 […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported Bangor High School will benefit from a three-year, $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study stormwater runoff and its effect on local waterways. The University of Maine’s College of Engineering is partnering with Bangor High School, as well as schools and water officials in Auburn and Portland, to complete […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an opinion piece titled “What’s unfair, volatile? A state tax structure that just won’t change,” by Sen. Richard Woodbury, a Yarmouth independent who has served five terms in the Legislature. The complete version of the article first appeared in Maine Policy Review, published by the University of Maine’s Margaret Chase […]
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The 2014 senior capstone art exhibition runs through Jan. 31.
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The Bangor Daily News reported Bangor High School will benefit from a three-year, $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study stormwater runoff and document its effect on pollution in local waterways. The University of Maine’s College of Engineering is partnering with Bangor High School, as well as schools and municipal water officials in […]
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“The Global Politics of Food and Water” will be the theme of the 2014 Camden Conference and accompanying course offered by the University of Maine’s Division of Lifelong Learning. The 27th annual Camden Conference will take place Feb. 21–23 in Camden and will also be part of a three-credit UMaine course with classes on Saturday, […]
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WVII (Channel 7) covered a concert at the University of Maine that was held in remembrance of the victims of last year’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. About 70 students, adults and professional musicians from around the state performed during the concert. UMaine student Olivia Bean said it was a great opportunity […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported on the 2013 Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstration at the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus. The 19th annual event featured baskets, carvings and beadwork, as well as demonstrations, storytelling, music, drumming and dancing. John Bear Mitchell, a Wabanaki studies lecturer and associate director of […]
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