UMaine in the News

UMaine Sustainability Solutions Initiative in Down East

Down East magazine highlights UMaine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative in an article on how Maine’s universities and colleges are among the top in the nation for sustainability education. The Initiative, which was launched in 2009 with a $20-million grant from the National Science Foundation, is a higher education partnership working to advance economic and community development […]

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Egyptian Graduate Student Shares Story

The Bangor Daily News covered Monday’s talk featuring Sherief Farouk, a UMaine graduate student in the computer science department who is half Egyptian and a graduate of the Arabian Academy of Science and Technology in Cairo. Farouk discussed the recent civil uprising there that resulted in the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Farouk discussed the […]

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Preview Of International Dance Festival

The BDN previewed the International Dance Festival, which is scheduled for Saturday, February 19, at the Collins Center for the Arts. There will be performances at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Traditional dances from India, Africa, Vietnam, Brazil, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States will be performed. This free event typically attracts […]

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Historian Op-Ed In Bangor Newspaper

UMaine historian Jay Bregman wrote an op-ed column that appeared in the Bangor Daily News about the proposed elimination of the Latin major at UMaine. Bregman argues that without a Latin majors, classics offerings at UMaine and in the UMaine System will suffer.

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Masters Breaks Four-Minute Mile Mark Again

UMaine junior distance runner Riley Masters broke his own school record in the mile on Saturday, running 3:58.17 during the Valentine Invitational at Boston University.  This marks the second time that the Bangor native has broken the four-minute mile mark, and it qualifies him for the NCAA Championships in that event.  More information is in […]

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Brewer Comments on Moderate Caucus

Comments from Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty are included in an Associated Press story about the influence of the Maine Legislature’s Moderate Caucus, a group of at least 45 lawmakers that Brewer predicts will become “a key player” in legislative decisions.

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Manev Column in Saturday Newspaper

UMaine College of Business, Public Policy and Health Dean Ivan Manev wrote a column, “Prosperity starts with business,” in Saturday’s Bangor Daily News.  It was the first installment in the newspaper’s “The Deans of Business” feature, a series of columns to be written by Manev and the business deans at Husson University and the University […]

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Channel 5 Reports on Winter Carnival

WABI television broadcast a Saturday report about UMaine’s winter carnival activities.  The story included an interview with E.J. Roach, UMaine’s director of campus activities.

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News Report on Valian Presentation

Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a story about a Friday UMaine presentation by Hunter College Prof. Virginia Valian.  An expert on gender issues, Valian gave a talk, “Why so slow? The advancement of women.”  It was the public kick-off event presented by UMaine’s Rising Tide Center, an effort aimed at advancing women academics in science, […]

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