University of Maine vice president for student affairs and dean of students Robert Dana spoke with Maine Public Broadcasting Network Tuesday about UMaine’s designation by the Princeton Review as being among the top 20 so-called party schools in the country. Dana said the listing, while dubious, presents an opportunity to remind parents and students of […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a special sections article about three institutions at the University of Maine collaborating to bring traditional Maine crafts, occupations and storytelling to the American Folk Festival, which begins Friday, Aug. 24 on the Bangor waterfront. The UMaine Hudson Museum, the Page Farm and Home Museum and the university’s Maine Folklife […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Janet Waldron, UMaine vice president for administration and finance, about how the university is coping with planned and in-progress construction projects on campus after Gov. Paul LePage blocked the sale of state bonds approved by Maine voters in 2010. Major projects are ongoing and several minor projects are being delayed […]
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Many news organizations, including the Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News, covered Tuesday’s dedication of the privately funded Paul J. Mitchell Batting Pavilion at the University of Maine. Mitchell, brother of former Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell, who offered congratulatory remarks, was a member of the UMaine baseball team from 1946-1948 and serves […]
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The Los Angeles Review of Books has reviewed and praised University of Maine art historian Justin Wolff’s biography, “Thomas Hart Benton: A Life,” which was published in March. The book focuses on the colorful, contradictory life and work of early 20th century allegorical painter. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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In a report on brook trout fishing in Maine, Channel 5 (WABI) reported that, according to a University of Maine School of Economics book trout study from 1991, nearly 90 percent of people who fish in the state prefer to fish for brook trout above any other type of fish. The report was based on […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Channel 2 (WLBZ) were among the news organizations to report that the 2013 Princeton Review includes the University of Maine as 19th in the top 20 schools rated as best party schools. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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An article in the Bangor Daily News about a planned Belfast art exhibit featuring coyote sculptures and paintings refers to coyote research done by University of Maine wildlife ecology professor Dan Harrison and Walter Jakubas of the state Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. One of the artists, Geri Vistein of Washington, Maine, a conservation […]
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The National 4-H Council has posted a report on its “Join the Revolution of Responsibility” website about a $4,000 grant from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H Engaging Youth, Serving Communities program that helped a fundraising effort by students at Sebasticook Valley Middle and Nokomis Regional High schools in Newport to raise $6,000 to […]
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In an article about two reported cases of West Nile Virus in Maine, the Portland Press Herald interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension veterinarian Anne Lichtenwalner, director of UMaine’s Animal Health Lab, who said UMaine can test dead birds for the virus. Birds are among the common carriers of the disease, which is spread by […]
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