WKSQ (94.5 FM) of Ellsworth will join WAEI (AM 910) of Bangor as the new flagship partner for UMaine sports broadcasts under the Blueberry Broadcasting umbrella, according to the Bangor Daily News. WKSQ-FM and WAEI-AM will broadcast all UMaine football and men’s hockey games, while WAEI-AM will broadcast men’s and women’s basketball and baseball games. […]
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A number of media organizations noted this week’s international EnergyOcean Conference in Portland, where UMaine-led technology for developing deepwater off-shore floating wind turbines is among the topics of conversation. Maine Public Radio reported that hundreds of stakeholders from the ocean energy industry are attending the conference. A Bangor Daily News article about the conference said […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal has a story about a UMaine Cooperative Extension and Maine Harvest for Hunger project at the former Franklin County Detention Center in Farmington, where inmates at the Somerset County Jail in Madison are transported to work a garden plot under the direction of master gardeners including Lauren St. Germaine of Cooperative […]
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Portland Press Herald columnist Steve Solloway wrote about UMaine senior and Bangor native Riley Masters, a standout runner for the Black Bears track and field teams. Masters is competing Friday in the Maine Distance Gala at Bowdoin College, where he will attempt to become the first Mainer to break 4 minutes in the mile on […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about recent UMaine graduate Roosevelt Boone, a former Black Bear football player, and the youth wellness and nutrition camp he will run next month on the UMaine campus. The Strong Mind, Strong Body camp is free and open to youth in the greater Bangor area whose families meet […]
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Comments from UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer were included a Maine Public Radio report about a story in the Chronicle of Higher Education, which found Maine was ranked second-to-last in percentage of state legislators with at least a bachelor’s degree. Brewer said a strong tradition of civic duty pulls in people from all kinds of […]
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The Bangor Daily News had a front-page story about a visit Monday to the Monhegan Island site where the UMaine-led DeepCwind consortium will deploy next year the country’s first deep-water wind turbine prototype. The group who visited the site included Habib Dagher, director of the AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center; Peter Jumars, director of […]
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An article in the June issue of Fisherman’s Voice discusses how research at the University of Maine Lobster Institute and Animal Health Laboratory is helping coastal lobster pound operators determine the best ways to reduce “shrinkage” of the catch through lobster deaths after capture. Some pound owners facing 15-20-percent shrinkage rates have gone out of […]
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New Hampshire’s Seacoast Online carried an opinion piece, written by journalist Doug Rooks, about the future of offshore wind in Maine, including the efforts of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center to develop a wind farm in the Gulf of Maine. Rooks, called Advanced Structures and Composites Center Director Habib Dagher a rare visionary. […]
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UMaine alumnus Silas Rossi, who owns a mountain-climbing guide business called Alpine Logic, was featured in a Bangor Daily News article. Rossi, who last week became the first Maine native to be certified through the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations – the highest professional award for mountaineering and skiing – was introduced to mountain […]
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