UMaine in the News

Neivandt set for radio interview

Prof. David Neivandt of the UMaine Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering will discuss the lobster shell golf ball project on a pair of WVOM radio (103.9 FM) interviews this week. He’ll be the guest on Deb Neuman’s Back to Business segment during the George Hale/Ric Tyler Show from 8-9 a.m. Wednesday. The interview will […]

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Vachon joins women’s basketball staff

The Portland Press Herald reports that former Black Bear basketball standout Amy Vachon will be an assistant to new women’s coach Richard Barron. A two-time UMaine captain who played on four NCAA tournament teams, Vachon coached McAuley High School to a Class A state championship last season. A similar story appears in the Bangor Daily […]

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Newspaper Advances UMaine Restorative Discipline Institute

The coastal Village Soup newspaper group on Saturday published a University of Maine news release about the Restorative School Practices institute planned in June in Augusta. The institute is a collaboration of the UMaine Peace and Reconciliation Studies program and Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast and instructs school teachers and staff about shifting from […]

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Coverage Of Underwood On ‘Survivor’

Several news outlets had reports Monday morning about the outcome of “Survivor,” the CBS reality show of which UMaine alumna Ashley Underwood was a cast member this season. Underwood finished in fourth place. Zach Dionne, a UMaine alumnus and editor at AOL’s PopEater who wrote a column for the Kennebec Journal during the “Survivor” season, […]

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McKay in report on STEM education

Prof. Susan McKay of the UMaine physics faculty and director of the Maine Center for Research in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Education (RISE Center) was interviewed for a Friday Maine Public Radio story about initiatives related to improving STEM education in Maine. Part of the story was based on the Maine Physical Sciences Partnership […]

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Wind power challenges covered by news organizations

The Bangor Daily News published a Saturday report about the Windstorm Challenge, held Friday at UMaine’s Field House and Wallace Pool. Teams from high schools around Maine participated in the challenge, which involved creating and demonstrating 1/100th scale models of floating turbine platforms, similar to an extensive R&D project underway in UMaine’s Advanced Structures and […]

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Nova Scotia paper reports on lobster shell golf balls

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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Column Features UMaine Graduate, Black Bear Star

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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