University of Maine community members provided information about student loans in a segment on WVII (Channel 7). Gianna Marrs, director of student financial aid, as well as Zachary Sheltra, director of enrollment operations, and recent graduate Cody Emerson shared their perspectives. Marrs addressed services the university offers to engage students in debt management and financial […]
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The Associated Press and Maine Public Broadcasting Network reported on a $1.1 million collaborative project involving the University of Maine and four other research institutions in the region that aims to better understand the physical and biological processes that control the abundance of a plankton species essential to the food web of the Northeast coastal […]
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The Medical Amnesty and Good Samaritan reporting program at the University of Maine was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article about a bill aimed at encouraging minors to seek help for alcohol poisoning that its supporters say is at risk of being vetoed. Rep. Joyce Maker, a Calais Republican and member of the education […]
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The Portland Press Herald’s “50 Years Ago Today” feature showed the front page of the June 3, 1965 paper that contained an article titled “7,000 See UM Award Largest Class Degrees.” In 1965, 1,100 seniors were awarded degrees at the Bangor Municipal Auditorium. It was the largest graduating class in the university’s 100-year history, according […]
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Gail Werrbach, director of the University of Maine School of Social Work, was mentioned in an Ellsworth American story about the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Werrbach is one of the five commissioners of the TRC, which June 14 is slated to issue a report about the state welfare system’s treatment […]
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Two former University of Maine men’s ice hockey goalies set to compete in the NHL Stanley Cup Final were included in a sports column in the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel. Ben Bishop is the starting goalie for Tampa Bay and Scott Darling is the backup goalie for Chicago. Bishop also was featured and Darling […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and the Bangor Daily News announced UMaine graduate and former field hockey star Holly Stewart won the America East Woman of the Year Award. Stewart, from North Vancouver, British Columbia, is the first Black Bear to receive the honor, presented to the league’s senior female student-athlete who best distinguished herself during collegiate […]
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Anne Lichtenwalner, a University of Maine professor, veterinarian and director of UMaine’s Animal Health Laboratory, was featured in the National Geographic article “What’s a ghost moose? How ticks are killing an iconic animal.” Sightings of ghost moose, an animal so irritated by ticks that it rubs off most of its dark brown hair, exposing its […]
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Mary Ellen Camire, University of Maine professor of food science and human nutrition and president of the Institute of Food Technologists, spoke with WTOP-FM: Washington’s Top News for the report “What you need to know about farm-raised vs. wild-caught fish.” Camire, who explained the differences between the types of fish as quite simple, said farm-raised […]
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A group of graduating mechanical engineering students — Philip Bean Jr., Matt Harkins, Isaac Walton and Ethan Ray — spoke with Mainebiz about the “autonomous boat” they constructed for their capstone project. The students, all from Maine, said a boat that doesn’t have a human at the wheel could save money in data retrieval for […]
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