In an interview with the Boston Sports Journal, Boston Bruins goalie and former University of Maine hockey player Jeremy Swayman credited a ballet elective with helping improve his abilities in the rink.
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David Patrick, MBS Class of 2016, is working toward a more equitable community in Maine. He is the co-founder of Racial Equity & Justice (REJ), a nonprofit and firm that provides consulting services and educational support based in Bangor. Read Patrick’s story online. Contact: Melanie Brooks, melanie.brooks@maine.edu
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Learn more about the organization Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness and its services at an upcoming “Wabanaki Voices” discussion at noon on Tuesday, Nov. 30 in room 102 of the Science Building at the University of Maine at Machias. Lisa Sockabasin, co-director of Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness, will provide an overview of the organization’s […]
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On the north coast of Peru, researchers have discovered the oldest adobe architecture in the Americas, constructed with ancient mud bricks carved from natural clay deposits created by floods caused by El Nino. The pre-Hispanic bricks — carved from sedimentary layers versus created by mixing clay, temper and water — date the invention of adobe […]
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Kelsey Stoyanova remembers when it hit her that she’d been named 2022 Maine Teacher of Year. It was when she was entering the gym at Hampden’s Reeds Brook Middle School for an assembly where the big announcement was taking place. As the eighth-grade band played the opening chords of “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor, […]
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As part of a collaboration with the Bangor Land Trust, the Maine Humanities Council and the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center, art education students at the University of Maine are helping to improve food security for humans and wildlife in Maine by producing outreach materials for a project that is introducing native berry, nut, […]
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Rod Sparrow, a member of the University of Maine Class of ‘71, gave a $1 million gift to support the University of Maine Athletic Facilities Master Plan, part of the UMS TRANSFORMS initiative launched in October 2020 by the Harold Alfond Foundation’s $240 million commitment to the University of Maine System. The gift will support […]
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News Center Maine noted that Kelsey Stoyanova, who was recently named 2022 Maine Teacher of the Year, is a student and alumna of the University of Maine. Stoyanova, a eighth-grade language arts teacher at Reeds Brook Middle School in Hampden, is working toward her Educational Specialist Degree in Educational Leadership at UMaine, where she earned […]
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WQCB (Q106.5 in Brewer) included the University of Maine in a report titled “25 Actual Locations of Stephen King’s Maine.” The report noted that King graduated from UMaine in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in English. It also highlighted the The Stephen E. King Chair in Literature, which aims to advance excellence in the creation, […]
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The 2019 National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition that six Climate Change Institute explorers participated in has set three Guinness World Records. The three records, featured in the latest edition of the Guinness World Records book, are: Highest altitude ice core taken: 8,020 meters (26,312 feet), extracted from the South Col glacier. The […]
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