The development of Tampa Bay Lightning hockey player Teddy Purcell, who played one year for the UMaine hockey team before he left to sign a free-agent contract in the NHL, is the subject of a column in the St. Petersburg Times. Mike Lundin, Purcell’s former Black Bear and current Lightning teammate, was also quoted about […]
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Two local television stations had news reports about a UMaine collaboration with students from Bangor, John Bapst, and Old Town high school. WABI and WLBZ featured a project being coordinated by researcher Sarah Nelson of UMaine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, who has been working with the students to determine […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported on Tuesday’s announcement of a $5 million gift from New Balance to UMaine that includes funding to renovate Memorial Gym and the field house. Bangor television station WABI also had a story about the gift, and the Republic newspaper of Columbus, Ind., carried an Associated Press story. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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Organic vegetable farmer and UMaine alumna Lisa Turner was profiled in a Portland Press Herald story about a new cookbook, for which Turner wrote the introduction, about how to eat local. Turner, a New Jersey native, majored in soil science and civil engineering, and now owns a farm in Freeport. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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UMaine athletic director Steve Abbott will appear on WVOM radio’s George Hale and Ric Tyler program just after 7:30 a.m. Wednesday May 25. He will discuss the $5 million New Balance gift announced by UMaine on Tuesday. WVOM is at 103.9 FM.
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Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News included a front-page story about a $5 million gift from New Balance to the University of Maine. The story, based on an interview with UMaine athletic director Steve Abbott, describes UMaine’s intended uses for the money, including the development of a challenge grant process to complete fundraising to renovate the 85-year-old […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported on Ashely Hebert, the UMaine graduate starring in ABC television’s “The Bachelorette.” A contestant on the most recent season of “The Bachelor,” Hebert is a Madawaska native who is studying to become a dentist.
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Comments from Jim Dill of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty are included in a Bangor Daily News story about a beagle trained to find bedbugs. Modern Pest Services, a Brunswick-based company with offices in Bangor and other New England locations, recently brought the dog on board to help deal with bedbug issues. Dill says the […]
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Friday’s Brunswick Times-Record included an editorial calling for a greater state investment in research and development, expressing support for the three R&D-related bond proposals currently under consideration by the Maine Legislature. The editorial makes reference to UMaine’s leadership in the state’s innovation economy, specifically in forest bioproducts and composite materials.
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A Bangor Daily News story describes Sea and Reef Aquaculture, a tropical fish-breeding business created by UMaine graduate Soren Hansen. Based at UMaine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research in Franklin, the company has grown from an idea created by Hansen and Chad Callan when they were UMaine graduate students. The story includes comments from Prof. […]
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