The Press Republican of Plattsburgh, N.Y., included advice from UMaine’s Cooperative Extension in a report about the current fiddleheads season. The story included Extension’s recommendations for preparing fiddleheads for consumption. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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UMaine’s Franco-American Center was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News’ Family Ties column about Franco-American roots in Quebec. The genealogy of the family of a man born in Quebec in 1759 was featured in the spring-summer 2011 issue of Le Forum, the center’s journal. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty was quoted in a Saturday Bangor Daily News report about the Conservative Patriot Tea Party of Midcoast Maine, which celebrated its one-year anniversary recently. Brewer commented that he believes the Tea Party “has moved the overall political climate in Maine to the right,” while also motivating more […]
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Adrienne Leppold, a UMaine Ph.D. student, is one of the experts featured in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story reporting on the 50th year of work at the Powdermill Avian Research Center near Rector, Penn. Operated by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History as a research facility, the center is “one of the longest-running bird-banding stations in […]
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Several news organizations covered Saturday’s UMaine commencement ceremonies, with most of the reports focusing on Sen. Susan Collins’ commencement address. Reports appear on the Web sites of the Bangor Daily News, Maine Sunday Telegram, WCSH/WLBZ television and WABI television. An Associated Press story was picked up by several news organizations, including some outside of Maine.
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Robin Arnold, a long-time UMaine staff member who graduates Saturday with a bachelor’s degree, is profiled in a Saturday Bangor Daily News story. An administrative associate in the School of Social Work, Arnold started course work 12 years ago on her way to a degree in Earth Sciences. The story, which includes comments from her […]
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Jonathan Farley from the UMaine computer science faculty was part of a discussion on the BBC program “World Have Your Say” on Tuesday May 3. Farley, who is a regular contributor to the program, joined in the discussion related to the death of Osama bin Laden. His appearance occurs just after the 20:30 mark on […]
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The Real Media news service carried a State University of New York, Potsdam news release about an upcoming lecture and two public physics seminars there by UMaine professor of physics and astronomer Neil Comins. Comins will discuss misconceptions in astronomy and subject matter from several of his 14 published books. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Basic information about UMaine’s commencement activities, which are being held Saturday, is available in a Bangor Daily News brief. For more information, see a news release here.
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An editorial in the Times Record newspaper of Brunswick cites UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center as a place where Maine people are acquiring and applying new skills in 21st-century jobs and cutting-edge innovations. The editorial had a number of examples of international companies that have chosen to locate offices in Maine because of […]
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