A short documentary featuring Elizabeth Allan, a University of Maine professor of higher education, has been given an Award of Excellence in the Broadcast Education Association’s 2016 Festival of Media Arts. The 17-minute video, “We Don’t Haze,” includes interviews with Allan, as well as current and former UMaine students. It was produced by the Clery […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald and WABI (Channel 5) reported University of Maine men’s ice hockey coach Red Gendron has signed a two-year contract extension. “It is an honor to coach at this outstanding university and to work with so many dedicated faculty, administrators, staff and, of course, with dedicated alumni and fans […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an article about the academic success of members of the University of Maine women’s basketball team. Team member Sigi Koizar recently received the 2016 “M” Club Dean Smith Award, which is presented annually to UMaine’s top female and male student-athletes who have demonstrated outstanding academic and athletic achievement along with […]
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The Bangor Daily News and WABI (Channel 5) reported University of Maine cross country and track athlete Jesse Orach of Gorham and women’s basketball player Sigi Koizar of Vienna, Austria, received the 2016 “M” Club Dean Smith Awards during the Scholar-Athlete Recognition Ceremony. The award is presented annually to the top male and female student-athletes […]
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The University of Maine has named cross country and track athlete Jesse Orach of Gorham and women’s basketball player Sigi Koizar of Vienna, Austria the recipients of the 2016 “M” Club Dean Smith Awards. The awards are presented annually to the top male and female student-athlete with outstanding academic and athletic achievement along with citizenship […]
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The University of Maine football program has released its 2016 schedule. The season’s slate is highlighted by a pair of Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) contests at University of Connecticut and University of Toledo along with a competitive set of Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) league contests in which Maine will face three CAA teams who made […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and the Bangor Daily News reported the University of Maine women’s basketball team will play its annual Play 4Kay breast cancer awareness game Feb. 8. Play 4Kay is named after Kay Yow, a longtime North Carolina State women’s coach who died of breast cancer in 2009. Funds raised for the game go […]
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The University of Maine’s 27th annual Scholar-Athlete Recognition Ceremony will honor a record number of 297 student-athletes for their academic success on Feb. 1 in Wells Conference Center. At the 6:30 p.m. ceremony, 218 student-athletes will be recognized as Scholar-Athletes for achieving a 3.0 or higher grade point average for the 2015 year and/or having […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the most recent University of Maine’s Military Appreciation Day. Military service members and their families were invited to attend for free Sunday’s UMaine vs. Stony Brook women’s basketball game. As part of the UMaine Military Appreciation Series presented by Dead River Company, military service members were given free tickets to […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried The Sports Xchange report that the Green Bay Packers had hired Ben Sirmans, former University of Maine assistant football coach and running back. After his UMaine career, Sirmans coached for 16 years in the college ranks before going to the St. Louis Rams in the NFL.
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