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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Comments from UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer are featured in a Maine Public Radio report on the first “negative” advertising of the current Maine gubernatorial race. Two new ads, one placed by the Libby Mitchell campaign and one by the Democratic Governors Association, target GOP candidate and campaign front-runner Paul LePage.
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UMaine School of Economics professor Todd Gabe was quoted in a Bangor Daily News story looking at the potential impact of an Oxford County casino on the Hollywood Slots facility in Bangor. The Maine electorate will vote in November on whether to approve a casino in that western Maine county.
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Alan Parks, director of UMaine’s College Success Programs, is featured in a Bangor Daily News story based on the news that UMaine’s TRIO Student Support Services programs have received five more years of federal funding. The story also highlights the story of UMaine student Luellen Suchan, who credits her success to the availability of TRIO […]
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Barbara Murphy from UMaine Cooperative Extension was quoted in a Maine Sunday Telegram story reporting that the 2010 growing season has been a good one for the Plant-a-Row-for-the-Hungry program in Maine. Murphy credits the favorable growing season and generous nature of Maine’s gardeners.
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Comments from Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty are included in a Maine Sunday Telegram story new polling in the Maine gubernatorial race. The newest poll, surveying 603 Maine voters, shows Republican Paul LePage at 38 percent, Democrat Libby Mitchell at 25 percent, independent Eliot Cutler at 11 percent an independents Shawn Moody […]
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Steve Solloway’s Maine Sunday Telegram column provided perspectives on UMaine women’s basketball coach Cindy Blodgett, who’s about to begin her fourth season in that role. Solloway and Blodgett discussed the program’s state and its future when she was in Portland Friday to address that city’s Rotary Club.
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Channel 2 broadcast a story previewing the Sunday Sept. 26 “Out of the Darkness” suicide prevention and awareness walk scheduled for UMaine. The story includes an interview with Wanda Cunningham and Bethany Walsh from the UMaine Counseling Center, which is organizing the activity. The walk starts at 1 p.m. and online registration is available.
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Maine Ahead magazine features an extensive profile of Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The story focuses primarily on offshore wind technology initiatives at the center, but also features background on Dagher himself and a sidebar about bridge-in-a-backpack technology developed there.
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