Several local media outlets reported that a filmmaker is holding auditions on the UMaine campus for a film to be shot next January. The Bangor Daily News had a story and noted the auditions will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, at Lord Hall. Bangor television station WABI had reported […]
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UMaine political scientist Amy Fried has a column in the Bangor Daily News about voter turnout and the recent national wave of restrictions on same-day voter registration. Fried’s column was her first as a regular contributor to the BDN’s editorial pages, where she will alternate weeks with Matthew Gagnon, a former staffer for Sen. Susan […]
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An independent New York production company is holding a casting call Friday, Aug. 5 at UMaine’s Lord Hall for area actors aged 15-19 for a film, “Bluebird,” being made in northern Maine this winter. Leading roles will be available for some of the students selected for the cast, according to Vacationland Films. Bluebird is described […]
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News story about a bipartisan commission that is beginning the process of redistricting Maine. Brewer told the BDN the state is dealing with a relatively small imbalance of 4,300 voters, but the process is messy whenever politics is involved. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The work of a UMaine psychologist was noted on the website International Business Times in a story about the accuracy issues of survey-taking. A study done by Michele Alexander (a UMaine faculty member who was killed in a car accident in 2003) and a fellow researcher at Ohio State was cited as having found women […]
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UMaine fine arts graduate student Ryan Guerrero was the subject of a report on Bangor television station WLBZ. Guerrero has created panels of graffiti art as his master’s thesis, and plans to donate the panels to whoever wants to display them. WABI also had a story about Guerrero, who wants to show that graffiti can […]
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Bangor television station WABI reported on this week’s gathering of alumni from the UMaine Class of 1944. The group has donated more than $14 million through the years, including funds for the Class of 1944 Hall which houses UMaine’s music department, and the revamped Bear’s Den pub. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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UMaine graduate student Ryan Guerrero was featured in the Bangor Daily News for a graffiti project he is working on as a master’s project. Guerrero, who will earn a degree in fine arts, is spray-painting four sheets of plywood to form a 16-foot long mural to be donated to either UMaine or a business that […]
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Comments from UMaine historian Howard Segal were included in a Maine Public Broadcasting Network radio report about Mainers’ opinions on the national debt talks. Segal said President Obama should have been tougher from the outset of the impasse. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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July 25, 2011 Ryan “Goo” Guerrero, an M.F.A student in Intermedia with a B.A. in Studio Art, will conduct a two-part, two-day live mural-painting project in downtown Orono and on campus Tuesday and Wednesday, July 26-27, as part of his graduate thesis.
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