Bonnie Blagojevic, a research associate at the University of Maine’s Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, along with Mary Ellin Logue and Gail Garthwait of the UMaine College of Education and Human Development faculty were included in a Saturday Bangor Daily News story about the use of iPads to help teach young children. Auburn […]
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Foster’s Daily Democrat has posted a UMaine news release announcing that Russell Osgood of Cape Neddick has been named the Northeast U.S. 4-H Volunteer of the Year. The story includes comments from John Rebar, executive director of UMaine Cooperative Extension along with Extenion Educator Jon Prichard. Contact Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
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Maine Public Radio broadcast a report about golf balls made from lobster shells, a UMaine innovation that’s getting widespread international news media attention. The story includes comments from Engineering Prof. David Neivandt, his student Alex Cadell and Lobster Institute Executive Director Bob Bayer. The story notes that that those involved with the project envision the […]
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The Bangor Daily News this week reported on a 5K race May 1 organized by UMaine student and former Bangor High School track athlete Dee Wilbur to raise funds for an orphanage in Uganda. The race begins at 2 p.m. at the UMaine Student Recreation and Fitness Center. Wilbur took a year off between high […]
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In a Portland Press Herald story about a photography exhibit in Boothbay, the UMaine Museum of Art was noted for its photography holdings. The story said the museum is one of a few in Maine that specialize in photography exhibitions. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The Bangor Daily News marked the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs mission to Cuba with a story about Houlton, Maine, attorney Torrey Sylvester. According to the story, Sylvester graduated from UMaine on June 1, 1959, and joined the U.S. Navy the next day. He was a gunnery officer on board the USS Conway, […]
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UMaine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research, which is performing research about sea urchin harvesting, was highlighted in a story on the website of the Ellsworth American. The research involves determining whether sea urchins can raised in a recirculating tank system for sale to markets in Japan. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The website Mental Floss is featuring in its Number of the Day section a story about UMaine-engineered lobster shell golf balls. The web post says there were 100,000 golf balls discovered submerged in Scotland’s Loch Ness in 2009, and links that number to the lobster shell golf balls, which are completely biodegradable and designed for […]
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Elizabeth Depoy, Professor, Interdisciplinary Disability Studies and Social Work, was featured in a Channel 5 (WABI) news report Wednesday trying out an assistive jogging device built for her by UMaine mechanical engineering students. Depoy, who has a spinal cord injury, had designed the ZG Jogger and used it late Wednesday in a 5K run on […]
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Former UMaine baseball coach John Winkin, who led the Black Bears to six appearances in the College World Series, will be honored in Bangor Friday at Husson University, according to a Bangor Daily News article. Winkin, who was coaching at Husson when in 2007 he suffered a stroke and is now in a long-term care […]
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