Amy Vachon, University of Maine assistant women’s basketball coach and former Cony and UMaine star, was highlighted in a Bangor Daily News article as one of 12 people being inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame on May 1, at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor.
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WABI (Channel 5) and the Bangor Daily News reported on the ninth annual Healthy High 5k/10k and 1-mile run/walk at the University of Maine. About 700 people were expected to participate in the race that promotes health and wellness for members of the university and surrounding community. This year, UMaine’s Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence […]
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The Portland Press Herald published an article on Cobbler Technologies, a Bangor startup that aims to revolutionize the footwear industry using 3-D printer technology. “Lots of shoe manufacturers use 3-D printers, but only to make prototypes,” said President and CEO Andrew Katon, a 2014 mechanical engineering graduate of the University of Maine. “Ours is designed […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported on Maine’s Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET), a research program focused on sustainable ecological aquaculture that aims to gain a comprehensive understanding of how sustainable ecological aquaculture can interact with coastal communities and ecosystems. The multi-institutional, public-private partnership is led by UMaine, in collaboration with the University of New England and […]
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The Bangor Daily News, WVII (Channel 7) and WABI (Channel 5) reported that Black Bears baseball coach Steve Trimper and women’s soccer coach Scott Atherley both have signed three-year contract extensions. Karlton Creech, University of Maine’s director of athletics, announced the extensions Wednesday. Trimper is in his 11th season at UMaine. He has directed the […]
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The Bangor Daily News and The Weekly previewed the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s season-closing concert and semi-staged performance of Giacomo Puccini’s “La Boheme.” The four-act opera is set for 3 p.m. Sunday, April 24 at the Collins Center for the Arts. The performance will mark the first time in recent memory that a live opera will […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in The Forecaster article, “Topsham to vote on budget, vernal pools regulations.” Topsham residents will vote on a $9.3 million municipal budget for fiscal year 2017 at the town meeting on May 18, according to the article. Another item that will be put before voters would amend the town […]
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The Maine Edge published a review of the Maine Masque production of Bert V. Royal’s “Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead.” Maine Masque is the University of Maine’s longtime student-run theater group. The show is viewed as an “unauthorized parody,” a bleak and unsettling reimagining of Charles Schultz’s beloved “Charlie Brown” characters as […]
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Jake Ward, the University of Maine’s vice president of innovation and economic development, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News article about an auction of items from the shuttered Lincoln Pulp and Tissue and Expera Old Town mills. The fate of UMaine’s research center for wood-based products located on the former Expera pulp mill site […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the New York Times article, “Marijuana legalization in New England is stalled by opiate crisis.” Legal marijuana advocates are looking to New England to aid efforts to expand legalization nationwide, according to the article, but the largely liberal region is struggling […]
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