The final episode of the reality show “The Bachelorette,” featuring UMaine graduate Ashley Hebert, garnered much media coverage on a national and local level. Several media outlets noted Hebert’s connection to UMaine, including the Fatherhood Channel website. The Bangor Daily News also had a story about Hebert, a Madawaska native who is now a dental […]
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An Inside Higher Ed story about the student farm movement in North America included comments from Mary Plaisted, a UMaine senior who has managed UMaine’s Black Bear Food Guild. Plaisted said through her classes in UMaine’s sustainable agriculture program she has gained a fuller understanding of the use of the impacts of pesticides and conventional […]
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The Village Soup website has a preview of an Aug. 11 documentary presentation and panel discussion at the Strand Theatre in Rockland about the potential for offshore wind energy in the Gulf of Maine. Habib Dagher, the Bath Iron Works Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Maine, and the founding director of the […]
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UMaine baseball coaches and players have been traveling to Maine communities to conduct community camps, according to a Bangor Daily News report. Black Bear coaches have traveled to Hermon, MDI and Poland this summer to conduct camps. Head coach Steve Trimper said a goal of the program is to reach out to high school coaches […]
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The Suffolk Times of New York profiled former UMaine football and track star Carl Smith, who now lives in Saco with his family, including wife Lori, who ran cross country for the Black Bears. Smith told the newspaper, which included him in its series of the greatest athletes from its coverage area, that being at […]
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The biennial UMaine hockey alumni game was featured in the Portland Press Herald. The game was held in Saco this year due to ongoing renovations to Alfond Arena. Tyler Walsh, a UMaine senior and student manager for the Black Bears, was interviewed about his memories of traveling with the team and being around the players […]
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News story about a bipartisan commission that is beginning the process of redistricting Maine. Brewer told the BDN the state is dealing with a relatively small imbalance of 4,300 voters, but the process is messy whenever politics is involved. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The Lewiston Sun Journal has a story about a book written by David B. Field, a retired UMaine professor of forest resources who is also a UMaine graduate. “Images of America: Along Maine’s Appalachian Trail” illustrates the history of the trail’s mountains and forests in Maine. Field maintained six miles of the scenic trail for […]
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John Mahon, who holds the John M. Murphy Chair in International Business Policy and Strategy and is a professor of management at the Maine Business School at UMaine, had a column in this weekend’s Bangor Daily News. Mahon wrote about approaches to taxing large businesses and noted a study being done by Maine Business School […]
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The work of a UMaine psychologist was noted on the website International Business Times in a story about the accuracy issues of survey-taking. A study done by Michele Alexander (a UMaine faculty member who was killed in a car accident in 2003) and a fellow researcher at Ohio State was cited as having found women […]
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