Douglas DeAngelis, an alumnus of the University of Maine and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will speak in Barrows Halls at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2. While a graduate student at MIT, DeAngelis founded FinishLynx, which produces fully automatic timing systems, line-scan cameras and athlete tracking technology for sporting events around the world. As a […]
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Maine humorist Tim Sample will be at the University of Maine for two appearances as part of UMaine’s 150th anniversary celebration Saturday, Oct. 17, during Homecoming Weekend. At 7 p.m., Sample, will read passages from Stephen King’s new short story “Drunken Fireworks.” Sample, who narrated the recently released audiobook, also will talk about his career […]
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As a young child, Alexandra Jimenez followed around squirrels and cracked open nuts for them. Her desire to help animals is still strong. Today, the University of Maine sophomore from Montville is majoring in animal and veterinary sciences with a pre-veterinary concentration. At UMaine, much of her academic concentration has been on cows and sheep […]
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A number of media outlets covered President Barack Obama awarding author Stephen King and 17 others the National Medal of Arts at the White House on Thursday. The award is considered the government’s highest award given to artists and arts patrons. King is a native of Maine and a University of Maine graduate. MPBN covered […]
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University of Maine alumnus and chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Religion at Rockford University in Illinois will deliver lectures and host a poetry program at UMaine in September. John Burns, an associate professor of Spanish who teaches Latin American literature, will give the lecture “Behind The Savage Detectives: The Infrarrealist […]
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Alum survived Alaskan mudslide, Sun Journal reports The Sun Journal interviewed University of Maine graduate Dave Longtin, ’92, who survived Tuesday’s deadly landslide in Sitka, Alaska. Longtin, a public works engineer who was inspecting culverts, ran to escape the mudslide. Two people died and one is missing, according to reports. “[T]he guy I was running […]
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The Weekly published a University of Maine student profile on Pam Wells, a nontraditional undergraduate who is enrolled in the School of Forest Resources. Already a UMaine alumna, Wells holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology-English that she earned in 1981 and a master’s degree in social work earned in 1991. She now is considering going […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on Upward Bound’s 50th anniversary reunion at the University of Maine. Upward Bound provides support to youth from low-income families to prepare for college. The goal is to increase the rate at which participants complete secondary education and enroll in and graduate from colleges and universities. Participants from the past five […]
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Dr. Betty McCue-Herlihy will attend Upward Bound’s 50th anniversary reunion at the University of Maine on Saturday, Aug. 8 to celebrate the organization’s power to change lives. It did hers. Growing up in the 1960s, McCue-Herlihy says her family was poor. She, her nine siblings and their wonderful parents lived in a home without indoor […]
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Black Bear pride is in full force at a middle school in Los Angeles, California, where a classroom of 23 students is focusing on the University of Maine to learn about college, what it takes to get there and how to succeed. The students in UMaine alumna Caitlin Rafferty’s sixth-grade advisory group chose the university […]
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