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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Dennis Stoup, a former cook and baker with UMaine’s dining services, has opened a new business in Old Town, according to a Bangor Daily News story. The Daybreak Bakery is located in a former Old Town Canoe retail space. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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UMaine Center on Aging Director Len Kaye was quoted in the Morning Sentinel about the importance of supporting those who are taking care of aging parents. Kaye said caregivers are known to be more likely to be in poor health with depression, alcohol, and prescription drug issues. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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WABI television broadcast a Friday report about an event celebrating the 30th anniversary of UMaine’ Cooperative Extension’s Senior Companions program. The story includes comments from volunteer Bob Mattingly and from Ann Swain, the program’s director.
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Prof. Len Kaye, director of UMaine’s Center on Aging, was quoted in a Central Maine Morning Sentinel feature story about the challenges faced by those providing care for elderly relatives. The story includes perspectives on the support services available for those in such situations, especially in Maine, where the story says that network is “expanding.”
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The June 12 Maine Sunday Telegram previewed two upcoming photography exhibits at the UMaine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. “Photo National: 2011: A Survey of Contemporary Photography,” featuring the work of 34 photographers, opens at the museum on June 24, along with “New Dawn Fades,” photographer Thomas Hager’s tribute to processes developed by Sir […]
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Comments from Richard Powell of the UMaine political science faculty were included in a Friday Maine Public Radio story about a Chinese daily newspaper’s recent opinion column criticizing a plan to bring 60 Chinese students to Millinocket’s Stearns High School next fall. Powell, who was in China last year as a Fulbright Fellow, notes that […]
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Several students who participated in the Maine NEW Leadership program were noted in a brief in the Kennebec Journal newspaper. Maine NEW Leadership, which is sponsored by UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, seeks to educate and empower young women to become civic leaders.
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The Bangor Daily News has an advance on the upcoming Haskell/IEEE Conference, which will feature speakers and presentations about the consumer and utility viewpoints of the Smart Grid. The conference will be held Friday, June 24, at Wells Conference Center. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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In a story about changes this fall on the campus of the Goodwill-Hinckley School, Maine Community College System President John Fitzsimmons told Bangor television station WLBZ that Kennebec Valley Community College will start a new two-year Agricultural Science degree on the Hinckley campus, a program which will connect to the agricultural programs at UMaine. The […]
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