WABI quoted Alan Davenport, the director of UMaine’s Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium, in a story about changes to the zodiac signs. The changes, discussion of which has lit up the Internet, have been going on for thousands of years due to basic shifts in Earth’s position.
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The University of Maine Museum of Art will be free for visitors again this year, WABI reported. The museum has for the fourth year in a row received a donation from Machias Savings Bank in support of the free admission program.
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UMaine’s Alfond Arena was named in a Boston Globe article one of the best college hockey venues in New England. The “boisterous” Black Bear fans, post-goal foghorn, intimidating atmosphere and Hall of Fame displays were among the reasons for the listing. The story begins with a description of students camping out in UMaine parking lots […]
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Tracey Nelson, a UMaine Cooperative Extension publications distribution manager and graphic designer, commented in a Bangor Daily News story about the increasing interest in Cooperative Extension’s on-line informational pamphlets.
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The website sify.com has a story about the discovery of the oldest identifiable domestic dog in the Americas made by UMaine graduate student Samuel Belknap.
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WVII broadcast a Wednesday story about UMaine’s new tobacco-free campus policy. The story featured an interview with Lauri Sidelko from the UMaine Division of Student Affairs, co-chair of the university’s tobacco-free campus committee.
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Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News included a guest column by Robert Ferguson, a local clinical psychologist who also serves as a clinical associate in UMaine’s psychology department. The column, “Treating chronic pain beyond medicine,” analyzes issues related to prescription medicine addictions in Maine. In his UMaine role, Ferguson supervises students and collaborates with faculty members.
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Comments from Dean Dana Humphrey of UMaine’s College of Engineering are included in a Thursday Portland Press Herald story about a Wednesday Portland forum on the “technical revolution” and Maine’s economic future. Humphrey notes that the UMaine college is at record enrollment levels, but it is not able to educate enough engineers to meet the […]
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UMaine researcher Jessica Fales’ report linking teen dating and depression was referenced on the blog thehairpin.com.
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A UMaine graduate student’s discovery of the oldest domesticated dog ever found in the Americas was mentioned on the website Physorg.com. Samuel Belknap, a student in the department of anthropology and Climate Change Institute, found a fragment of bone from the skull of a dog. The bone was directed dated at 9,400 years old.
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