The weekly Village Soup newspaper has on its website a story about a new art exhibited curated by Laurie Hicks, a UMaine art professor and curator of the Lord Hall Gallery on campus, for River Arts, a gallery in Damariscotta. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was mentioned in a Seacoast Online article. The story noted a forum held Monday night in Portsmouth by the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League, where Dagher spoke about Maine’s advances in deepwater offshore wind energy. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Several media outlets, including the Portland Press Herald covered Monday’s announcement that the UMaine men’s basketball team will face defending national champion UConn in a Nov. 17 game. The Bangor Daily News also had a story. Several newspaper websites across the country, such as the Beaumont Enterprise in Texas, ran an Associated Press story about […]
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There was media coverage Tuesday of the news that former UMaine basketball star Cindy Blodgett, who had coached the Black Bears the last four years, has been hired to be an assistant coach at Rhode Island. The Lewiston Sun Journal had a story Tuesday, as did both Bangor television station WABI and Portland station WGME. […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported Monday Cindy Blodgett, the former UMaine basketball star player who coached the Black Bears for four years, has been hired as an assistant coach at the University of Rhode Island. Joanne P. McCallie, a Brunswick native who coached Blodgett at UMaine and was in Maine this weekend to visit family […]
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An article in the Bangor Daily News advancing Thursday’s Maine Grass Farmers Network pasture walk mentions the network’s cooperative relationship with UMaine Cooperative Extension and other groups to provide education and marketing opportunities for producers of pasture-raised livestock. The story also mentions pasture walk host farm W.R. Sherburne and Sons Inc., of Dexter, whose owners […]
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Comments from Adrienne Kearney, a UMaine associate professor of economics, were included in a Central Maine Morning Sentinel story about the rising cost of silver and the already high price of gold. Kearney told the newspaper the futures market expects the cost of gold to continue rising slightly between now and 2012. Gold is attractive […]
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The Bangor Daily News ran a story about the announcement of the hiring of Krish Thiagarajan, a University of Western Australia professor who will be UMaine’s first Alston D. and Ada Lee Correll Presidential Chair in Energy. Thiagarajan, who is expected to arrive on the UMaine campus in August, is an expert in the design […]
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A Tuesday June 28 presentation, “Twenty Tips for Addressing Behavior Challenges,” is previewed in a Bangor Daily News story featuring autism expert Cathy Pratt. Pratt, who will be UMaine’s Mark R. Shibles Visiting Professor during the 2011-2012 academic year, is director of the Indiana Resource Center for Autism at Indiana University’s Indiana Institute on Disability […]
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A Bangor Daily News story profiles Rachel Hathaway, a UMaine student who will graduate in December with a degree in business and economics. The 36-year-old Millinocket native is in Bangladesh, working to help the poor by applying her business expertise through microfinancing. “Microloans,” often less than $500, provide Third World entrepreneurs with opportunities to escape […]
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