UMaine in the News

Author’s Talk Previewed In Newspaper

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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Engineers Heading To Netherlands For Wind Power

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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Climate Change Talks Previewed in Bangor Daily

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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Football, Basketball Coaches Speaks To High School Students

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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Ferguson Scheduled for Thursday Radio Interview

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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Historian Op-Ed On Public-Sector Unions

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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UMaine Graduate Named New Bachelorette

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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Alum Continues On Survivor

UMaine graduate Ashley Underwood continues to appear on the hit reality series “Survivor: Redemption Island” and is staying under the radar, according to a Waterville Sentinel column written by Zach Dionne, another UMaine alum. Dionne is writing a weekly column while Underwood, a nursing major and former UMaine women’s basketball player, continues to remain on […]

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Newspaper Advances Presentation On Franklin County Agriculture

The Lewiston Sun Journal has an advance of a March 19 presentation by Grange member, journalist and photographer Jo Josephson about cutting-edge farms and farmers in Franklin County. The title of the presentation, “The Changing Face of Agriculture in Franklin County,” was taken from the Clarence Day book “Farming in Maine 1860-1940,” which was published […]

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