WABI (Channel 5) and WLBZ (Channel 2) reported on the passing of longtime University of Maine Police Department Detective Chris Gardner. Gardner passed away unexpectedly Nov. 15. He was 47. Gardner had been a member of UMaine PD for 27 years, rising to the rank of detective sergeant. For more than seven years, he also […]
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Kat Johnson, education coordinator at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor, was a recent guest on WVII (Channel 7). She spoke about upcoming free holiday events at the museum, including art trivia nights in November and January, and Winter Art Factory 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Dec. 3.
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The Bangor Daily News, WLBZ (Channel 2) and Sun Journal covered a student-run peaceful protest at the University of Maine. About 50 students and UMaine community members gathered on the steps of Fogler Library to speak out against the presidential election of Donald Trump, according to the BDN. Collin MacMillan, a first-year business major who […]
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The Portland Press Herald and Maine Public reported University of Maine President Susan J. Hunter sent an all-campus email, saying any acts of harassment or intimidation on the university system’s flagship campus would not be tolerated. Racist incidents at several schools, including the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oklahoma, have been reported since […]
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Marcella Sorg, an anthropologist and research professor with the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, was mentioned in the Bangor Daily News article, “‘One person a day is dying’ in Maine, drug overdose numbers surpass 2015.” With 286 drug overdose deaths in Maine as of September, the state has already exceeded […]
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James Smith, a staff member at the University of Maine’s Page Farm and Home Museum, visited the studio of WABI (Channel 5) to talk about the organization’s involvement in the Maine Harvest Festival. The festival takes place 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 19–20 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. Smith said the […]
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The Washington Post used data from the Climate Reanalyzer, a website produced by the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, for a recent story on the unseasonably warm temperatures sweeping North America. The United States, the story notes, experienced its third-warmest October on record and the warmth has continued into the first part of November. […]
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Maine residents 65 years of age or older can take undergraduate courses at the University of Maine for free, reports the Bangor Daily News. The newspaper mentioned UMaine’s Senior Citizen Tuition Waiver in a column for Consumer Forum, a BDN consumer news partnership with Northeast CONTACT.
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Cameras from WABI (Channel 5) and WLBZ (Channel 2) were rolling on Veterans Day, when a group of University of Maine students volunteered their time to paint the home of a disabled U.S. Navy veteran in Milford. Rachel Putnam, who served in the Navy for 20 years, has multiple sclerosis and can’t take on large, […]
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Jason Harkins, an associate professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Maine, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an article about CoVort, a startup business he co-owns. CoVort is an around-the-clock office for rent, social club and business incubation center located in Bangor that plans to take advantage of the nationwide trend toward co-working, […]
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