The Associated Press, Bangor Daily News, WVII (Channel 7), Kennebec Journal, WLBZ (Channel 2) and Portland Press Herald were among news organizations to report that Karlton Creech has been named the University of Maine’s director of athletics. UMaine President Paul Ferguson named Creech to the position, effective Feb. 10. Creech is currently the senior associate […]
Read more
The December 2013 issue of Impact, a Maine State Chamber of Commerce publication, featured an article on the University of Maine’s involvement with the Maine Invention Convention. The event is a statewide competition that promotes problem solving and inventing by students in grades five through eight throughout the school year and ends with the statewide […]
Read more
Michael “Mick” Peterson’s recent trip to Turkey to consult with the six major race tracks of the Jockey Club of Turkey was the subject of a story by a horse racing columnist Kadir Kiygir. Since 2004, the UMaine professor of mechanical engineering has contracted with track owners and racing industry leaders to test the strength, […]
Read more
The Bangor Daily News reported that for the third year in a row, University of Maine women’s basketball coach Richard Barron has announced he will shave his head after his team’s annual Play4Kay game Feb. 9 if the community raises $10,000 for the Kay Yow Foundation to support breast cancer research. Play4Kay is named after […]
Read more
Bangor Metro interviewed Susan Lizzotte, head coach of the University of Maine’s swimming and diving teams, and student-athletes Lauren Dwyer and Cody Lachance about the swimming lessons the team offers to local children. Lizzotte, who oversees the program offered to children who are 4 to 13 years old, said each collegiate instructor is assigned to […]
Read more
Gianna Marrs, director of financial aid for the University of Maine, spoke with the Associated Press for an article about the Educational Opportunity Tax Credit and how it is being overlooked because of the state’s failure to market it effectively. UMaine financial aid officials said they tell students about the program and available resources but […]
Read more
The Sun Journal recently published an opinion piece by Howard Segal, a history professor at the University of Maine. The column is titled “Boycott of Israel goes too far.”
Read more
WABI (Channel 5) reported the University of Maine Athletics Department is sponsoring a bus trip on Jan. 11 to the Frozen Fenway game in Boston where the University of Maine men’s hockey team will take on Boston University. Bus tickets are $60 per person and can be purchased by calling 581.1086 by Jan. 3.
Read more
The Bangor Daily News reported a committee appointed by the Bristol Board of Selectmen plans to determine whether the town should have input over the proposed offshore wind project by Maine Aqua Ventus, which includes the University of Maine and partner companies. The proposed project would be about 10 miles away from Bristol and 2.5 […]
Read more
The VillageSoup reported the University of Maine will celebrate the opening of its new Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center (IMRC) on Jan. 9. In partnership with the Juice Conference, Midcoast Magnet, Belfast Creative Coalition and Realize!Maine, the dedication will kick off with a mini-Juice Conference titled “IMRC (Immerse) Maine: Celebrating Creative Innovation” that will […]
Read more