Mainebiz reported the UMaine Business Challenge at the University of Maine announced the winners of its eighth annual pitch contest presented by Business Lending Solutions, which awarded $16,000 in cash and prizes to collegiate entrepreneurs. Maxwell Burtis, a UMaine mechanical engineering student, won both the first-place prize of $5,000 and the $10,000 Innovations Prize with […]
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The Penobscot Times previewed “Hamlet’s Girlfriend Gets a Life,” a discussion by young adult novel author Lisa Klein on her reinterpretation of the classic play “Hamlet” from Ophelia’s point of view. The lecture, part of the Stephen E. King Chair Lecture Series at the University of Maine, will be at 5 p.m. April 12 in […]
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News Center Maine quoted Christopher Richards, director of undergraduate enrollment management at the University of Maine, in a report on college admissions in the state. “We want to see students who we feel primarily can handle the academic coursework at the University of Maine. We are also looking for students who are going to be […]
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The Bangor Daily News included the annual University of Maine Pride Week Drag Show in a “Culture Shock” roundup of local events slated for the weekend. The show will be held at 7 p.m. April 13 at the Collins Center for the Arts, and will feature RuPaul’s Drag Race finalist Roxxxy Andrews, according to the […]
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The Daily Bulldog advanced “Cooking for Crowds — Food Safety Training for Volunteer Cooks,” to be held 9 a.m.–noon April 25 at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Franklin County office in Farmington. The training will offer up-to-date information on how to handle, transport, store and prepare foods safely for large group functions. Participants will […]
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Morning Ag Clips announced University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Cumberland County will offer a tractor safety course 5:30–7:30 p.m. Mondays, April 29–May 20 at Gorham Public Works. The course is designed for adults and youth at least 14 years of age, and required for 14- and 15-year-olds who plan to operate farm equipment for […]
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News Center Maine, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) covered the fourth annual University of Maine Student Symposium April 10 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. Hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students presented their research findings in the arts, health care, science, engineering, education and other topics to more than 1,000 attendees. “Basically […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported four student-athletes are among this year’s Outstanding Graduating Students at the University of Maine. Vincent Eze, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was named the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Education and Human Development. The child development and family relations and sociology double major is a forward on the men’s […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot reported four generations of the Davee family received the Fogler Legacy Award at the University of Maine Alumni Association’s annual Alumni Achievements Awards dinner April 5. The Davee family has forged paths in engineering and other fields, and become engaged members of the UMaine community well beyond graduation, the article states. […]
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Morning Ag Clips, Maine Public and the Associated Press cited research by Eleanor Groden, a professor of entomology at the University of Maine, in articles about the expected spread of browntail moths in Maine this spring. The pest defoliates native oaks, cherries and hawthornes, as well as apple, crabapple and several other deciduous trees, and […]
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