The Bangor Daily News reported that fire investigators have concluded a malfunctioning hair dryer caused the weekend apartment complex fire that left 23 UMaine students in need of alternative housing. No injuries were reported and affected students have been relocated. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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UMaine adjunct sociology faculty member Michael Rocque has received the Outstanding Student Award from the Division on People of Color and Crime at the American Society of Criminology.
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The University of Maine, Old Town and Orono police departments have received distinctive recognition status from a national law enforcement accreditation agency, a precursor to becoming fully accredited and confirmation that the departments have met more than 100 standards of excellence.
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An art reviewer for the Portland Press Herald has praised the current exhibit by UMaine third-year master of fine arts student Gabriella D’Italia of Newburgh at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport. About D’Italia’s quilted fabric piece “White Finery,” reviewer Daniel Kany writes, “It’s less that D’Italia transforms the material than brings it […]
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Charles Armstrong, UMaine Cooperative Extension cranberry professional, was a guest on the Sunday, Nov. 20 edition of WVOM FM radio program “Back to Business” with host Deb Neuman. The hour-long program included a discussion about how to grow cranberries and interviews with a Columbia Falls cranberry grower and the owner of Cranberry Island Kitchen in […]
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Channel 7 (WVII) reported on a UMaine School of Economics research project that examines the contents of trash in Maine being sent to landfills and incinerators that could be reused or recycled at a substantial solid waste cost savings. Students Travis Blackmer and Karl Chandler explained how the university’s new single-sort systems works and how […]
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Justin Martin, UMaine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences – Honors Preceptor of Journalism, will be interviewed Monday afternoon (3 p.m. eastern time) on Wisconsin radio station WLIP. In a discussion that will be available live online, Martin will discuss the state of the cable television industry in the U.S.
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Prof. George Criner of the UMaine School of Economics and senior economics major Travis Blackmer were interviewed for a WLBZ television story about an extensive project analyzing the content municipal trash in 17 Maine communities. Initial results suggest that 20 percent of the discarded trash could have been recycled, saving those municipalities significant amounts of […]
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The UMaine Black Bear football team has qualified for the national FCS playoffs. The NCAA announced the playoff field on Sunday, with the 8-3 Black Bears receiving a first-round bye. They will play Appalacian State in Boone, N.C. on Saturday Dec. 3. More details are in a Portland Press Herald blog post by Kevin Thomas.
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Twenty-one UMaine students were displaced by a Saturday night fire at the off-campus Stillwater Apartments complex on College Avenue. As the Bangor Daily News reported, university student affairs personnel were at the fire scene attending to the students, arranging for campus accommodations and other interventions as necessary to help those students continue their studies without […]
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