Sarah Sparks, a 4-H professional with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald story about the resurgence in popularity of sewing. Sparks said more clubs are being organized around fiber arts and sewing, and an annual fashion review for 4-H members in Cumberland County has doubled in the number […]
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Portland TV station WMTW has a story about a UMaine study that found golf has a major impact on the state’s economy. UMaine economists James McConnon and Todd Gabe discovered Maine’s golf industry generated almost $270 million for the state in 2011, including tourism-related spending by out-of-state golfers. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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The Boston Globe ran an Associated Press advance about this week’s inauguration of UMaine President Paul W. Ferguson and the events of Leadership Week, including Wednesday’s keynote speech by noted author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. The inauguration will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Collins Center for the Arts. Bangor TV station […]
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California’s Sacramento Bee newspaper carried a news release about the new “10Green” interactive web tool designed by the University of Maine Climate Change Institute to provide 10 air quality measures of pollutants such as carbon monoxide, large and small particulates, ozone, sulfur dioxide and heavy metals. Institute Director Paul Mayewski said in an interview that […]
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George Kinghorn, the director of the University of Maine Museum of Art, was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News report about a sculpture in downtown Bangor that is set to be moved to a different location. Kinghorn, who is also vice president of the Downtown Bangor Partnership board, spoke out in favor of the move […]
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Several media outlets, including the Bangor Daily News, covered Tuesday’s car accident that killed UMaine student Timothy J. Dodge, a 19-year-old from Rockland. Bangor TV station WABI also had a report on the accident. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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In Channel 5 (WABI) and a Channel 2 (WLBZ) news reports, Jason Hoyt of Black Bear Properties at the University of Maine described the purpose of a recent visit to the UMaine campus last week of 200 fifth-grade students from the greater Bangor area and Lewiston as part of the second annual Weight Watchers of […]
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Channel 2 (WLBZ) on Monday covered a visit to the campus by area elementary and middle school students who have been mentored by UMaine student Black Bear Mentors. The program, operated through the Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism, introduced the students to a typical day at UMaine. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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UMaine physics professor Raymond Dean Astumian was interviewed for an article in the April 2 issue of Chemical & Engineering News about misunderstandings about the fundamental physics behind design, operation and characterization of molecular machines. This topic is part of the subject of an article, “Can artificial molecular machines deliver on their promise?” that Astumian co-authored […]
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UMaine School of Economics assistant professor Sharon Wagner spoke with Channel 7 (WVII) Monday for a 6 p.m. news report about some of the reasons for recent spikes in gasoline prices. The single most influential factor in gasoline prices is the cost of crude oil, she says, which is tied to supply and demand and […]
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