The website of the AUCD about UMaine’s 2011 Shibles Distinguished Visiting Professor in the College of Education and Human Development. Cathy Pratt, the director of the Indiana Resource Center for Autism at Indiana University’s Indiana Institute on Disability and Community will be at UMaine during the fall 2011 semester. Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756
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UMaine football coach Jack Cosgrove was featured in a Lifestyle profile in the April 2011 issue of Bangor Metro magazine. The Black Bear coach shares a Bangor home with his wife Marilyn and four children and their friends. The family frequently invites prospective UMaine football recruits and their families to dinner to get to know […]
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An interview with UMaine professor of English Ken Norris, author and poet who teaches Canadian literature and creative writing, is currently featured in the “EXpats” section of the online journal “Poetry Quebec.” Norris discusses his writing, life and how he became enamored with Montreal and Quebec as a young man in 1971. Contact: George Manlove, […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) aired coverage Tuesday of the groundbreaking ceremony at UMaine for a Forest and Bioproducts Research Institute addition at Jenness Hall. The 3,300-square-foot addition will give technical staff room to work with visiting researchers and collaborators. It also will include training areas and videoconferencing facilities. Channel 7 (WVII) also covered the event. Contact: […]
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The Weekly newspaper had notices from the Challenger Learning Center in Bangor about programs with UMaine connections. The first, a Space Day open house, was held recently and featured students from UMaine’s College of Engineering who demonstrated wireless robotic sensors. The second took note of the “Connecting Climate to Curriculum” program, which involves scientists in […]
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A Business Week website column about intellectual property noted that UMaine has applied for a patent for the lobster shell golf ball developed by engineer David Neivandt along with student Alex Caddell. Contact: Kristen Andresen, 207-581-3742
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UMaine alumna Ashley Underwood is one of the final six remaining on the CBS reality show “Survivor,” according to a column in the Waterville Sentinel. Zach Dionne, also a UMaine alum who is now an editor at AOL’s PopEater, writes that Underwood has not factored into many major strategic decisions, decisive challenge victories, or memorable […]
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Comments from Ed Ashworth, the dean of UMaine’s College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture, were included in a Mainebiz story about a new crop of young farmers who are running smaller farms with more of a focus on locally sourced goods. Ashworth said despite the fact that putting together the capital investment to start […]
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The website Marine Executive has a report about the wind blade testing currently ongoing at the Marin testing facility in the Netherlands. Faculty and student engineers from UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center are testing three types of floating wind turbines in Marin’s wave tank. The findings will help UMaine move forward in its […]
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An obituary for Elbert George “Al” Moulton Jr., a UMaine graduate and native of Brooks, Maine, appeared in the Village Soup’s website. Moulton served several terms in Vermont state government, and was the first director of development and secretary of commerce and community affairs. He was the state’s chief economic development leader under four governors […]
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