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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Danny Williams, executive director of the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine, talked with WABI (Channel 5) about the center’s 30th anniversary season and its gala presentation Sept. 12. “For 30 years the Collins Center for the Arts, Maine Center for the Arts, has been a cultural beacon for the area,” […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2), WVII (Channel 7) and WABI (Channel 5) aired segments on a free Football 101 for Women workshop offered by University of Maine football coach Jack Cosgrove.
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The Bangor Daily News carried a feature on student–athlete Randy Samuels, who was born in Jamaica and moved to New York when he was 10. Samuels led the UMaine football team in tackles in its season-opener Saturday at Boston College.
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The Penobscot Times ran a University of Maine advisory notifying area media and emergency responders that UMaine will conduct a full-scale test of its emergency alert and notification systems 9:30–10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16.
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The central ornithology publication office reported on University of Maine researchers studying bird trade-offs during migratory flights. They need to fuel up with food as efficiently as possible, but they need to avoid predators while they do it, says the release. Graduate student Jennifer McCabe and Professor Brian Olsen spent two years capturing birds during […]
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Research by Susan Brawley, a professor of plant biology at the University of Maine, was cited in the Kennebec Journal’s latest Backyard Naturalist column, “Remembering the invasive periwinkles.” Periwinkles belong to a class of mollusks with spiral shells. They have soft bodies and a head inside the permanent univalve shell, as opposed to bivalves such […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Jessica Miller, a philosophy professor at the University of Maine, for the article, “Warning: This education might trigger trauma. Are we coddling college students?” A trigger warning or content advisory informs readers who have experienced trauma that content in an article or book may cause them to re-experience that trauma, […]
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The Sun Journal published an article about how thousands of Maine children are interested in farming and are involved with University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H. Last year, Maine had 19,230 4-H participants, with about one in three coming from Oxford County, according to the article. Although the statewide figure is slowly on the decline, […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on a public tour of a garden and wildflower plot installed at the Pine Tree Landfill in Hampden by University of Maine researchers in an effort to support the native bee population. “Maine is a very heavily forested state, and we don’t find many bees in the […]
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