Richard Higgins, a 1979 UMaine graduate and retired Boeing executive, has won Tau Beta Pi’s 2011 Distinguished Alumnus Award. That engineering honor society will formally recognize Higgins with the award at its October convention in Indianapolis. According to the Tau Beta Pi news release, the award honors Higgins’ “lifetime achievements and commitment to engineering education.” […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about former UMaine track star Dereck Treadwell who won on Saturday the Newton’s Revenge bicycle race up the Mount Washington Auto Road in New Hampshire. Treadwell graduated from UMaine in 1998, gaining All-America status in 1996 when he finished 11th in the 1,500 meters at the NCAA championships. […]
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A UMaine graduate was quoted in a Kennebec Journal story about the trail and hut system built by the nonprofit agency Maine Huts and Trails. Chris Nilon, the hutmaster at a hut in Flagstaff Lake, said he graduated from UMaine with a degree in parks and recreation and tourism. He had been working at national […]
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The Strong Minds-Strong Bodies Inc.’s Wellness and Nutrition Summer Youth Camp founded by former UMaine football player Roosevelt Boone was featured recently on WABI (Channel 5) and also mentioned in the Bangor Daily News. A brief in the BDN announced the camp is providing free meals for eligible children through the Summer Food Service Program […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal reported on a talk that UMaine graduate Andrew DeRoche, a Maine native who now teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder, gave last month in Bethel. The lecture, part of the 2011 Bethel Historical Series, focused on Bethel native Margaret Joy Tibbetts, who was U.S. ambassador to Norway. DeRoche earned a […]
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A news release from the American Medical Association noted UMaine graduate Georgia Tuttle, the mayor of the City of Lebanon, N.H., and a practicing dermatologist, has been elected to the AMA’s national Board of Trustees. Tuttle earned a bachelor’s degree from UMaine in 1976 and attended the Tufts University School of Medicine. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported Monday Cindy Blodgett, the former UMaine basketball star player who coached the Black Bears for four years, has been hired as an assistant coach at the University of Rhode Island. Joanne P. McCallie, a Brunswick native who coached Blodgett at UMaine and was in Maine this weekend to visit family […]
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The Bangor Daily News has an article about George Davis Carlisle, a UMaine graduate who recently donated $500,000 to Eastern Maine Medical Center’s CancerCare of Maine program, which is located in Brewer. Carlisle earned a forestry degree from UMaine and went on to work at Prentiss & Carlislie land management company, a family business of […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about recent UMaine graduate Roosevelt Boone, a former Black Bear football player, and the youth wellness and nutrition camp he will run next month on the UMaine campus. The Strong Mind, Strong Body camp is free and open to youth in the greater Bangor area whose families meet […]
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UMaine alumnus Silas Rossi, who owns a mountain-climbing guide business called Alpine Logic, was featured in a Bangor Daily News article. Rossi, who last week became the first Maine native to be certified through the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations – the highest professional award for mountaineering and skiing – was introduced to mountain […]
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