The Bangor Daily News has a story about a proposed $5.2 million facility that would combine the UMaine observatory and planetarium facilities into one building. The UMaine System Board of Trustees will consider the proposal next Monday at its next board meeting. The facility would be built near Rangeley Road between the Hilltop Parking lots […]
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Research by and comments from Scott See, history professor and director or the University of Maine Humanities Initiative, were the basis of a recent article in the Saint John, New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal about nineteenth century violence between Protestants and Irish Catholics in Atlantic Canada, including St. John. See also discussed his research as a guest […]
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UMaine’s work on wind power was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article about a finding that Maine surpasses the national rate in creation of so-called green jobs. The story said UMaine is working in partnership with companies such as Cianbro and Bath Iron Works to build a regional cluster of expertise around the development […]
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Bangor’s Channel 2 (WLBZ) had a report on UMaine Cooperative Extension’s outdoor gardening classroom in Orono. The report noted the gardens produced in 2010 more than 17,000 pounds of produce that was donated to food banks in Penobscot County. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Justin Martin, who will start this fall teaching journalism at UMaine, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News story about controversy surrounding Al-Jazeera Washington Bureau Chief Abderrahim Foukara’s upcoming talk at the Strand Theatre in Rockland. Martin, who most recently taught at the American University in Cairo, told the BDN Al-Jazeera is considered to be […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried a brief story about UMaine receiving federal funding for nursing education. The Department of Health and Human Services funds will help offset tuition and other expenses for nurses pursuing graduate degrees who agree to practice in rural or underserved areas of the state. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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An upcoming Hudson Museum exhibit on local Native American basketmakers was featured in a report on Bangor TV Channel 7 (WVII). The work of those considered the next generation of basketmakers, including some who have received national and international recognition, will be on display starting Sept. 24 in an exhibit called “Transcending Traditions: The Next […]
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Wall Street Journal personal finance columnist Jason Zweig interviewed Pank Agrrawal, a member of the Maine Business School faculty, for a recent article on interpreting stock market gains and losses. Agrrawal says that conventional charts on market websites don’t tell the complete story. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Comments from Lois Stack, a UMaine specialist in ornamental horticulture, were included in a Reuters report about hogweed. Stack warned that when touched, sap from the hogweed reacts with sunlight and causes severe skin irritation, blistering, and permanent scars. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Several local and national media outlets covered the news that UMaine football player Charles Kyeremeh Jr. had been killed Sunday in a motorcycle accident in Pennsylvania. The USA Today website included an Associated Press version of the story, and the Los Angeles Times also carried a story. A CBS television affiliate in Pennsylvania had a […]
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