UMaine in the News

Television News Features UMaine Sugaring Operation

Bangor television stations Channel 5 (WABI), Channel 2 (WLBZ) and Channel 7 (WVII) interviewed Cooperative Extension educator and maple syrup expert Kathy Hopkins and Francis Avery, who operates the University of Maine’s Thomas J. Corcoran Sugar House Thursday for a feature on the maple syrup season, now well under way with cold nights and warm […]

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Economist Research Included In New Business Column

Research done by James McConnon, UMaine Cooperative Extension specialist and economics professor, was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News column about women and work. The column, which is the first of a new series called Women@Work, states McConnon’s research has found 30 percent of microbusinesses in Maine are owned by women.

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Broom Hockey Benefit Noted

Bangor television station WABI noted Saturday’s broom hockey benefit game featuring the UMaine women’s hockey team against the Third Watch Hockey Club. The game, which will take place starting at 2 p.m. at Alfond Arena, is a benefit for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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Author’s Talk Previewed In Newspaper

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout was interviewed by the Bangor Daily News in advance of her visit to UMaine next week. Strout, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for her fictional work, “Olive Kitteridge,” will be on campus March 22-24 to speak to writing classes and give a public reading of the book at […]

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Engineers Heading To Netherlands For Wind Power

The Bangor Daily News has a story about a group of UMaine professors who will spend a month in the Netherlands working at a wind turbine testing facility. The researchers, including AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center director Habib Dagher, will test three models for deepwater offshore turbines at the Marine Research Institute Netherlands.

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Climate Change Talks Previewed in Bangor Daily

UMaine’s Paul Mayewski is set to give a talk on Thursday, March 31, about the role humans play in climate change, according to a Bangor Daily News story. Mayewski, the director of the Climate Change Institute at UMaine, will speak in Hutchins Hall at the Collins Center for the Arts. The talk, which starts at […]

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Football, Basketball Coaches Speaks To High School Students

The Bangor Daily News covered Dexter High School’s Teen Issues Fair Wednesday, which featured visits by UMaine football coach Jack Cosgrove and UMaine women’s basketball coach Cindy Blodgett. Both coaches focused on self-esteem issues in their talks with student groups.

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Ferguson Scheduled for Thursday Radio Interview

UMaine’s next president is scheduled for a Thursday morning radio interview on WVOM’s George Hale/Ric Tyler Show.  Paul Ferguson, appointed on Monday by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees, will be on the program from approximately 7:34-7:45 a.m.  News coverage of Ferguson’s selection has included an Associated Press story on the Chicago Tribune […]

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