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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National entertainment media reported on Wednesday night’s episode of CBS’ “Survivor”Redemption Island,” noting that Ashley Underwood, who is a UMaine alumna, has made the final round of the popular reality show, and is one of nine players still vying for a $1 million prize. The season finale will be Sunday night. WABI (Channel 5) noted […]
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The Bangor Daily News is reporting that there is a chance the UMaine hockey team could play an outdoor game at Fenway Park, the home of the Boston Red Sox. Hockey East Commissioner Joe Bertagna said the league has been in negotiations with the Red Six for more games since the BU and BC men’s […]
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The National Science Foundation website Science360 posted a UMaine-produced video featuring students Bess Koffman and Eliza Kane, who are shown melting ice cores stored at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute facility. The cores, which represent about 2,500 years of ice, were from western Antarctica. Koffman is a Ph.D. student in earth science and Kane is an […]
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Several members of the Fogler Library staff have coauthored an article that appears in the monthly news magazine College and Research Library News 72, no. 5 (2011) and on its website. In “Imagine: A Student-Centered Library,” coauthors Gretchen Gfeller, Desiree Butterfield-Nagy and Hansie Grignon describe the process undertaken by Fogler’s marketing team of engaging students […]
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