Several media outlets covered last Friday’s Maine Wind Blade and Windstorm Challenges, which were held in UMaine’s New Balance Student Recreation and Fitness Center. The Bangor Daily News interviewed several students who participated in the challenges, which featured competitions for middle and high school students to design, build, implement and test wind power technology components […]
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The Bangor Daily News has an article about the seasonal opening of the Orono Bog Boardwalk this morning, led by Grace Ferguson, wife of UMaine President Paul Ferguson. The boardwalk, which is visited by about 30,000 people a year, is jointly managed by the University of Maine, the Orono Land Trust and the city of […]
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The Bangor Daily News advanced Saturday’s Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium teachers’ workshop, which was held at UMaine in the Donald P. Corbett building and also in the UMaine art department’s sculpture workshop. Daniel Lux, a faculty member in the UMaine Department of Earth Sciences, was also noted as being scheduled to give a talk on […]
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UMaine men’s hockey coach Tim Whitehead appeared in a photo that went with a story on the MSNBC website about Bangor author Sarah Smiley and her project to entertain a different dinner guest each weekend while her husband is deployed. Whitehead and members of the hockey team were dinner guests in February. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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A column in the Bangor Daily News describes resources for the genealogists at UMaine’s Fogler Library and the Bangor Public Library. Saucier says Fogler’s hours are convenient and resources unique. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Channel 5 (WABI) and the Bangor Daily News carried reports on proper identification, harvesting and preparation of fiddleheads. The Bangor Daily News interviewed Lauren St. Germaine, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension home horticulture coordinator, and Dave Fuller, agriculture and non-timber forest products professional at UMaine Extension. Channel 5 last week interviewed Fuller and Jason […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) reported on Bearfest, a recent all-night dance marathon organized at UMaine by students to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network. More than 300 students and supporters participated and raised an estimated $30,000, according to the report. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Correll Professor of Early Literacy Susan Bennett-Armistead was interviewed for a Channel 2 (WLBZ) report on the “Growing Up Healthy, Building Children’s World Knowledge Through Literacy” conference Saturday at UMaine. An estimated 100 educators from around Maine registered to attend. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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The University of Maine Foundation Board has named Jeffery N. Mills as its new president and CEO, effective July 1. He succeeds Amos E. Orcutt who is retiring June 30 after serving the foundation in this capacity for 22 years.
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Several of the top-ranked University of Maine College of Engineering student-built kinetic sculptures demonstrated this week on campus are being moved to a variety of locations throughout Maine, including the Maine Discovery Museum in Bangor, to illustrate for young people the artistic and practical nature of kinetic machines and engineering.
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