Bangor television station WABI noted Saturday’s broom hockey benefit game featuring the UMaine women’s hockey team against the Third Watch Hockey Club. The game, which will take place starting at 2 p.m. at Alfond Arena, is a benefit for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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UMaine physiologist Harold “Dusty” Dowse was the subject of a BDN story in its Conversations with Maine series. Dowse discussed his interest in breadmaking, karate, and how he came to teach comparative anatomy at UMaine.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout was interviewed by the Bangor Daily News in advance of her visit to UMaine next week. Strout, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for her fictional work, “Olive Kitteridge,” will be on campus March 22-24 to speak to writing classes and give a public reading of the book at […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about a group of UMaine professors who will spend a month in the Netherlands working at a wind turbine testing facility. The researchers, including AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center director Habib Dagher, will test three models for deepwater offshore turbines at the Marine Research Institute Netherlands.
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UMaine’s Paul Mayewski is set to give a talk on Thursday, March 31, about the role humans play in climate change, according to a Bangor Daily News story. Mayewski, the director of the Climate Change Institute at UMaine, will speak in Hutchins Hall at the Collins Center for the Arts. The talk, which starts at […]
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The Bangor Daily News covered Dexter High School’s Teen Issues Fair Wednesday, which featured visits by UMaine football coach Jack Cosgrove and UMaine women’s basketball coach Cindy Blodgett. Both coaches focused on self-esteem issues in their talks with student groups.
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Madawaska native and UMaine alumna Ashley Hebert, fresh off “The Bachelor” television reality show and recently named the next woman to star on “The Bachelorette” reality show, airing in May, was featured on the CNN Entertainment and People websites March 15.
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UMaine’s next president is scheduled for a Thursday morning radio interview on WVOM’s George Hale/Ric Tyler Show. Paul Ferguson, appointed on Monday by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees, will be on the program from approximately 7:34-7:45 a.m. News coverage of Ferguson’s selection has included an Associated Press story on the Chicago Tribune […]
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University of Maine historian Elizabeth McKillen has an opinion in the Bangor Daily News in which she defends public-sector unions and gave a history of the unions and the first civil-service laws.
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There was plenty of media coverage, including an article in the Portland Press Herald, as Madawaska native and UMaine graduate Ashley Hebert was named the star of the latest edition of “The Bachelorette.” Hebert, who is currently in dental school at the University of Pennsylvania, finished third on “The Bachelor,” which ended its most recent […]
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