The Vanguard, a Nova Scotia newspaper, is the latest to report on the lobster shell golf ball initiative of UMaine’s Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering and its Lobster Institute. The story includes comments from engineering Prof. David Neivandt, who is working on the project with student Alex Caddell and Lobster Institute Executive Director Prof. […]
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a brief report about UMaine bicycle path reconstruction work, planned for 11 weeks beginning May 31.
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A Bangor Daily News column featured Emily Ellis, a UMaine graduate and former Black Bear women’s basketball star who was on the search committee for the recently filled basketball coaching vacancy. Ellis, now a Bangor real estate agent, was the first UMaine women’s basketball player to have her number retired. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Jonathan Farley, an associate professor of computer science and a former visiting Libra Diversity Professor at UMaine, had an opinion piece in the Portland Press Herald in which Farley wrote about recent public remarks made by Phillip Congdon, the former Maine commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development about affirmative action. In his […]
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Comments from Scott Laflamme, a UMaine public administration student who serves on the Old Town city council, were included in a BDN story about the sudden resignation of Old Town’s city manager. Laflamme voted against accepting Peggy Daigle’s resignation during a meeting Thursday Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The Maine Senate has confirmed retired U.S. Navy Admiral Gregory “Grog” Johnson for a spot on the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. An Associated Press story reports on the 34-0 vote in favor of Gov. Paul LePage’s nomination of Johnson, an Aroostook County native who graduated from UMaine in 1968. A resident of […]
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The story of UMaine alum Spencer Morton, who graduated in 2010 with a journalism degree and has decided to walk across the country, was featured in several media outlets, including the Bangor Daily News and the website MediaBistro. Morton intends to walk from Maine to California, where he will edit a documentary, write a book, […]
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The website North American Windpower has a story in advance of Friday’s Wind Blade and Windstorm Challenges for middle and high school students. The challenges are being held on the UMaine campus. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The Guardian newspaper’s Punctuated Equilibrium blog has a story and video about ice core research being performed at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute. UMaine Ph.D. student Bess Koffman and undergraduate Eliza Kane were interviewed for the UMaine-produced video, which was featured Wednesday on the Science360 website.
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UMaine’s Buchanan Alumni House hosted Wednesday the first meeting of the Maine Young Professional Exchange, a group of professionals from networking groups such as Realize Maine, Fusion Bangor and Momentum Aroostook. The Bangor Daily News covered the event which drew around 55 people discussed best practices for communities, businesses, schools and other groups to attract […]
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