The Bangor Daily News has a story about former UMaine track star Dereck Treadwell who won on Saturday the Newton’s Revenge bicycle race up the Mount Washington Auto Road in New Hampshire. Treadwell graduated from UMaine in 1998, gaining All-America status in 1996 when he finished 11th in the 1,500 meters at the NCAA championships. […]
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The Physical Oceanography Group of UMaine’s School of Marine Sciences has new survey equipment for its real-time data buoy array in the Gulf of Maine, according to the website Hydro International. The Iver2 surveyor will be used in Casco and Penobscot bays to focus on transport through channels between islands and peninsulas. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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A UMaine Cooperative Extension jam-making sessions were featured in the Lewiston Sun Journal. The session, held at the Extension office in Lisbon Falls, focused on low-sugar recipes and proper food safety techniques. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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A UMaine graduate was quoted in a Kennebec Journal story about the trail and hut system built by the nonprofit agency Maine Huts and Trails. Chris Nilon, the hutmaster at a hut in Flagstaff Lake, said he graduated from UMaine with a degree in parks and recreation and tourism. He had been working at national […]
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New UMaine women’s basketball coach Richard Barron was in a Bangor Daily News story about his efforts to recruit players for the 2011-12 season. Barron said his goal is to start building relationships with potential Black Bears in order to string together several good classes in a row and make UMaine an America East contender […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a preview of Thursday’s scheduled talk by Tina Boudreau, a UMaine Cooperative Extension program associate, at the Sebasticook Valley Health Diabetes Support Group’s meeting in Pittsfield. Boudreau will give advice on how to maximize the benefits of summer produce through healthy eating and harvest preservation. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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President Emeritus Bob Kennedy was profiled in a Saturday July 9 feature story on “Bill Green’s Maine,” a weekly magazine program that airs on WCSH in Portland and WLBZ in Bangor. In the story, Kennedy reflected on his seven years of service as UMaine’s president as Green, a UMaine graduate, added his perspectives on Kennedy’s […]
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University of Maine President Paul Ferguson was interviewed by WLBZ (Channel 2) about his first week in office.
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In a report about a free lunch program for youngsters, the Lewiston Sun Journal noted the participation of Eliza Cormier, a UMaine nutrition student who is volunteering with the grant-funded program, which provides a free breakfast or lunch to children up to 18 years old. The program is being held at the Rumford Elementary School. […]
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Justin Martin, an incoming College of Liberal Arts and Sciences-Honors College preceptor of journalism, wrote an opinion piece for the Christian Science Monitor. Martin wrote about his experiences as an American unable to find an academic job in the U.S. and deciding to accept an offer at the American University in Cairo. Martin wrote about […]
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