UMaine junior nursing major Corey Conner placed 42nd out of 253 runners at the NCAA Cross Country Championships Monday, according to a story in the Bangor Daily News. Earlier this season Conner won the New England Championship and placed fourth in an NCAA regional race.
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UMaine’s search for a new president was included in an Associated Press article that ran in the Boston Herald. UMaine, which is seeking to fill the position after current president Robert Kennedy announced last spring he would step down in 2011, is one of several New England universities, including the University of Connecticut, the University […]
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Tuesday’s Portland Press Herald includes a story looking back at the 2010 UMaine football season. The Black Bears finished the season with a 4-7 record, ending with a 14-10 Saturday loss at home to James Madison University. The Bangor Daily News reports that six Black Bear players have earned All-Colonial Athletic Association honors for their […]
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A Tuesday Portland Press Herald editorial praises UMaine hazing researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden for developing a “National Agenda for Hazing Prevention in Education,” a follow-up to their 2008 report documenting hazing behaviors at colleges and universities around the U.S. The editorial follows a recent Associated Press story on this effort, published in Tuesday’s […]
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Saturday’s Portland Press Herald included an op-ed column, “Advice for LePage: let lawmakers lead,” written by UMaine sophomore and student senator Mark Brunton.
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A front-page Saturday Bangor Daily News story reports on Friday’s visit to UMaine by representatives of a Russian company with broad responsibilities for transportation infrastructure at the 2014 Winter Olympics. They were in Maine to investigate the possibility of using bridge-in-a-backpack technology, developed at UMaine and licensed to an Orono-based company called Advanced Infrastructure […]
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Comments from Jane Conroy of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty are included in a Central Maine Morning Sentinel story providing advice about budgeting during the holiday season. In the story, Conroy also points to her recent research about the economic value of shopping locally.
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An Associated Press story details a new stage in the extensive hazing research project being conducted by Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden of the UMaine education faculty. Following their 2008 survey that provided the most extensive information ever collected on the subject as it relates to U.S. colleges and universities, Allan and Madden have launched […]
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The Bangor Daily News posted a story to its website a few hours after Friday’s announcement that a company marketing UMaine’s bridge-in-a-backpack technology had signed a memorandum of understanding with a Russian firm that could put the carbon-fiber bridges, developed at the AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, to use during the 2014 Winter Oympics […]
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In an article listing tips for holiday shopping, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper gave a suggestion from UMaine’s Cooperative Extension. The suggestion was for parents who bring children shopping to give the child something to do during the shopping excursion, such as looking for an item organizing coupons.
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