Brenda Harvey, a UMaine graduate who is currently commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, is leaving that post to become executive director of the New England States Consortium Systems Organization, according to the Portland Press Herald. NESCSO is a nonprofit organization affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School whose mission […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported about the sons of late UMaine men’s ice hockey coach Shawn Walsh. Following his transfer from Michigan State, Tyler Walsh is now a student at UMaine and Black Bear hockey team manager. His brother, Travis Walsh, is playing in the United States Hockey league and will attend MSU in 2012. […]
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The VillageSoup Web site features a UMaine news release about a recent donation to the UMaine equine program by the Maine Farriers Association.
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WVII television interviewed UMaine police chief Roland LaCroix for a story describing UMaine’s emergency notification procedures (umaine.edu/emergency). The story was developed following last week’s news reports indicating that a U.S. Dept. of Education report says that Virginia Tech did not provide the required timely notifications during the April 2007 shooting on that campus.
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included an op-ed column by President Kennedy. The column describes the benefits of public-private partnerships in helping UMaine achieve its goals and serve the state.
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Monday’s Portland Press Herald includes a guest column by labor historian Charles Scontras, a research associate in UMaine’s Bureau of Labor Education. The column looks at the “meteoric rise” of the Knights of Labor in Portland in the late 19th century. Scontras describes that organization as the nation’s “first major labor movement.”
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Leslie Forstadt, a child and family development specialist in UMaine Cooperative Extension, was quoted in a Sunday Maine Today Media story about pets as holiday gifts. Forstadt urges that families consider carefully the ramifications of such a decision. She also recommends that parents consider interim steps to prepare the family for a new pet, such […]
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WABI broadcast a Saturday report from the annual Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstration, held at UMaine’s Collins Center for the Arts and Hudson Museum.
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WLBZ/WCSH had a Friday news report featuring Donna Coffin of UMaine Cooperative Extension describing the benefits of LED holiday lights. Those decorations can save a good deal of money compared to other lights, and they are safer because they do not get as hot.
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WABI television featured members of UMaine’s Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity in a Friday story about the group’s holiday philanthropic efforts. In the story, which included an interview with chapter president Chris McGary, the students delivered 25 children’s gifts to Brewer Federal Credit Union as part of the credit union’s partnership with the Salvation Army to […]
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