Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News previews three days of UMaine presentations by author, filmmaker and science communicator Randy Olson. A faculty member at the University of Southern California, Olson will make a series of public presentations while also interacting with UMaine students and faculty members in various settings. A highlight will be Wednesday evening’s 7 p.m. […]
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer is the lead resource in a Tuesday Lewiston Sun Journal story about a new poll that shows Maine 2nd District incumbent Michael Michaud with a 20-point lead over GOP challenger Jason Levesque.
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“Knowledge in Cities,” a scholarly paper by UMaine economist Todd Gabe and three collaborators is listed as one of the week’s “interesting (examples of) economics research” in the Sept. 8 issue of The Economist.
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The Maine Business School’s MBS Corps was represented by a group of 13 walkers and runners at Sunday’s Susan Komen Race for the Cure breast cancer fundraiser in Bangor. MBA student Amy Sundberg organized the effort and MBA student Cassie Vaillancourt raised the most money. Altogether, the MBS Corps raised $2,200. Photos of the group […]
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The Bangor Daily News features a story about UMaine School of Engineering Technology Prof. Tom Christensen, who’s turned a woodworking hobby into a massive effort aimed at bringing smiles to the faces of children in difficult situations. Christensen makes thousands of wooden toy cars each year for donation to children in hospitals, homeless shelters and […]
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The New Writing Series begins its fall 2010 poetry readings and discussions Thursday, Sept. 23 at 4:30 p.m. at Soderberg Auditorium in Jenness Hall with poets Joanna Fuhrman and Rick Snyder. The lectures are free and open to the public.
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Note: Cindy Blodgett and Steve Abbott are both at Penobscot Valley Country Club in Orono this afternoon, participating in the annual women’s basketball fundraiser golf tournament. They will be available for interviews at PVCC. Contact: Joe Carr (207) 581-3571 Laura Reed (207) 581-3646 ORONO — University of Maine women’s basketball coach Cindy Blodgett has agreed […]
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Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, (207) 581-1904 ORONO — Northern and Eastern Maine schools will find it easier from a cost perspective to send students on field trips to the University of Maine’s Hudson Museum and Collins Center for the Arts as a result of a Quimby Family Foundation grant. According to Museum Director Gretchen Faulkner, the […]
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Contact: Jeff Benjamin, 581-2727; Jessica Leahy, (207) 581-2834 ORONO — The University of Maine School of Forest Resources has received a U.S. Department of Agriculture research grant to take a close look at the northeast region’s logging industry and examine its infrastructure, capacity, workforce and issues that affect its economic health and future. The research […]
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Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty was quoted in a Monday front-page Bangor Daily News profile of Maine independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler.
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