The Portland Press Herald spoke with University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy and University of Maine Alumni Association CEO John Diamond for a report about the death of UMaine graduate and Nobel laureate Dr. Bernard Lown. “Dr. Lown was a tremendous humanitarian whose vision, innovation and passion made this world a better place and inspired […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on Marin Skincare, owned by University of Maine alumni Patrick Breeding and Amber Boutiette, and how it is operating in the New England Ocean Cluster waterfront business incubator in South Portland. The company, which earned a funding award from Maine Sea Grant through its Buoy Maine competition, makes skin hydration […]
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WVII (Channel 7) talked with Dana Humphrey, dean of the University of Maine College of Engineering, about the Crosby clip, one of 36 inventions patented by UMaine engineering graduate Herb Crosby. The Crosby clip will be used to place the last beam in UMaine’s new Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center on Friday.
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Kimberley Miner will be featured on CBS Mission Unstoppable at 8 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 30. Show host Fig O’Reilly will talk with Miner, a research assistant professor with the Climate Change Institute, about climate change and sea level rise. The interview will be posted on YouTube. Miner, who also is a scientist with NASA’s Jet […]
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A team of researchers from the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay and Maine Department of Marine Resources in West Boothbay Harbor recently published their research on the effects of ocean warming and acidification on gene expression in the earliest life stages of the American […]
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The Bangor Daily News and The Irregular promoted the University of Maine’s Career Fair, which is scheduled for 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Feb 3. The fair will be virtual this year. All UMaine and University of Maine at Machias students and alumni are welcome to attend. More information about the event is online.
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The University of Maine Career Center will host the annual Career Fair virtually 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Feb. 3 on the Career Link platform. UMaine’s Career Fair, which is the largest in the state, is held each year for UMaine and University of Maine at Machias students and alumni of all majors. All those with […]
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Centralmaine.com promoted a Jan. 28 Zoom event sponsored by the University of Maine Black Student Union and the UMaine Alumni Association, “Black Studies in 21st Century Higher Education.” Guests Sonia Sanchez and John Bracey, who initiated the movement for Black studies curricula in the 1970s, will talk about the history of Black Studies, current urgencies, and […]
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WABI (Channel 5) talked with John Diamond, president and CEO of the University of Maine Alumni Association, for coverage of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day webinar co-hosted by the Alumni Association and the Greater Bangor Area Branch of the NAACP. During the webinar, “Being Black in Maine: Lived Experience and the Prospect for Change,” […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot and Centralmaine.com promoted an upcoming webinar, “Black Studies in 21st Century Higher Education,” scheduled for 6 p.m. on Jan. 28. The free Zoom event, which is co-sponsored by the University of Maine Black Student Union and the University of Maine Alumni Association, will feature Sonia Sanchez and John Bracey, co-founders of the […]
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