Elizabeth Depoy, Professor, Interdisciplinary Disability Studies and Social Work, was featured in a Channel 5 (WABI) news report Wednesday trying out an assistive jogging device built for her by UMaine mechanical engineering students. Depoy, who has a spinal cord injury, had designed the ZG Jogger and used it late Wednesday in a 5K run on […]
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Former UMaine baseball coach John Winkin, who led the Black Bears to six appearances in the College World Series, will be honored in Bangor Friday at Husson University, according to a Bangor Daily News article. Winkin, who was coaching at Husson when in 2007 he suffered a stroke and is now in a long-term care […]
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Research done in the 1970s by UMaine archaeologist David Sanger was mentioned in a Village Soup website story about the excavation of a shell midden in Acadia National Park. Sanger excavated the site in the late 1970s, according to the article, and the items found in the midden are currently being examined by a team […]
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The Bangor Daily News covered the announcement that UMaine has been named for the second year in a one of the nation’s most environmentally responsibile colleges and universities by the Princeton Review. The story included comments from UMaine President Robert Kennedy, who was one of the original signers in 2007 of the American College and […]
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ESPN’s website has an Associated Press story about former UMaine athletic director Patrick Nero, was who named the athletic director for George Washington University. Nero was most recently the commissioner of the America East conference, to which UMaine sports programs such as basketball, track and field, baseball and softball belong. The Washington Post also ran […]
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The Times Record newspaper in Brunswick carried an article Tuesday about collaboration among the Wiscasset-based Chewonki Foundation, the Ferry Beach Ecology School and the University of Maine 4-H Camp and Learning Centers at Bryant Pond and Tanglewood. The collaboration will launch the Environmental Living and Learning for Maine Students (ELLMS) Project on Friday, Earth Day. […]
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The Boxscore World Sportswire website Tuesday carried the announcement of the Jeff Cole Memorial Bone Marrow Drive, being held Thursday, April 21 at the UMaine Student Recreation and Fitness Center. Jeff Cole was a popular UMaine football coach before he died of cancer in 2004. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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UMaine’s Director of Student Financial Aid Peggy Crawford was interviewed along with a University of Maine student for a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report Tuesday on college student loan debt. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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The website Geek.com noted the lobster shell golf ball project that UMaine engineer David Neivandt and student Alex Caddell worked on recently. The golf balls are made discarded lobster shells and are entirely biodegradable. Contact: Kristen Andresen, 207-581-3742
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Several media outlets covered the release Tuesday of “Safer by Design: Businesses Can Replace Toxic Ingredients Through Green Chemistry” at UMaine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation. The report, which was commissioned by the advocacy group Environment Maine, looked at 14 businesses using environmentally friendly green chemistry in their work. Maine Public Radio included comments from […]
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