UMaine alumnus Mike Bordick, a former shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles baseball team and current minor-league baseball instructor was elected to the Orioles Hall of Fame, according to a story on WBAL, Baltimore’s NBC television affiliate. Before becoming a major league baseball player, Bordick led the Black Bears to College World Series berths in 1984 […]
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The Portland Press Herald has a story mentioning the work of University of Maine economist Stephen Reiling. A professor in UMaine’s School of Economics, Reiling is working with the Maine Snowmobile Association on a survey that will go to snowmobile clubs around the state to determine the future direction of club, municipal and capital equipment […]
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Comments from Jim Dill of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty were included in a Friday Channel 5 story about a Friday Orono forum about bedbugs. Dill and other experts — including those form the hospitality and healthcare sectors — provided information about dealing with the pests.
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UMaine Professor Emeritus Katherine Musgrave was inducted into the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame during a Saturday ceremony in Augusta. The Bangor Daily News covered the event, which also included the induction of Sen. Susan Collins. Musgrave, who continues to teach nutrition courses, has been a UMaine faculty member for more than 40 years. UMaine […]
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The website of television network NESN has a story about a casting call for UMaine students who want to compete on a TV quiz show that would feature academic- and intelligence-based challenges. The show “Schooled” would pit UMaine students against students from eight other New England schools, including Boston College, Boston University, Connecticut, UMass, Amherst, […]
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Channel 7 (WVII) on Thursday aired a report on how the University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center is helping Maine businesses with innovative manufacturing projects, including the recent design for a composite safety toe cap for an Auburn company that manufactures boot for firefighters. UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center created the composite resin […]
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UMaine business professor John Mahon of the Maine Business School was interviewed for a Channel 7 (WVII) news report this week on the potential economic effects of the crises in Japan. Mahon says the automotive industry, international debt and oil markets, in addition to reconstruction supplies markets, likely will be affected. The Portsmouth Herald also […]
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Bangor television stations Channel 5 (WABI), Channel 2 (WLBZ) and Channel 7 (WVII) interviewed Cooperative Extension educator and maple syrup expert Kathy Hopkins and Francis Avery, who operates the University of Maine’s Thomas J. Corcoran Sugar House Thursday for a feature on the maple syrup season, now well under way with cold nights and warm […]
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Research done by James McConnon, UMaine Cooperative Extension specialist and economics professor, was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News column about women and work. The column, which is the first of a new series called Women@Work, states McConnon’s research has found 30 percent of microbusinesses in Maine are owned by women.
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Bangor television station WABI noted Saturday’s broom hockey benefit game featuring the UMaine women’s hockey team against the Third Watch Hockey Club. The game, which will take place starting at 2 p.m. at Alfond Arena, is a benefit for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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