The Associated Press, Reuters, Bangor Daily News, Maine Public Broadcasting Network and Portland Press Herald reported an endowed chaired professorship in literature named in honor of best-selling author and University of Maine alumnus Stephen King will be established at the University of Maine with the help of a $1 million award from the Harold Alfond […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) and WABI (Channel 5) previewed the University of Maine School of Performing Arts production of the award-winning Broadway hit “Urinetown, The Musical.” Performances are scheduled Feb. 19–28 in Hauck Auditorium. The satirical comedy by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis is the story of a bureaucracy run amok when a water shortage after […]
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An upcoming concert by The Wailers at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine was the focus of a Maine Edge article. Together with Bob Marley, The Wailers have sold more than 250 million albums and have played to an estimated 24 million people across the globe performing an average of […]
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Mary Ellen Camire, a University of Maine professor of food science and human nutrition and past president of the Institute of Food Technologists, was quoted in an answer to a Sun Journal reader’s question about scallops. The reader said he and his wife have noticed a difference in the flavor, odor and texture of scallops […]
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Kit Hamley, a graduate student at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was a recent guest on Falkland Islands Television. She spoke about her research on an extinct species of fox called the warrah. Using field and laboratory techniques, Hamley hopes to learn how and when the animal arrived in the Falklands. “It’s been […]
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The Bangor Daily News, WLBZ (Channel 2), WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported University of Maine senior Lee Jackson was one of 25 McDonald’s workers in the nation to be named Crew Person of the Year. Jackson is a political science major who also is pursuing a minor in Maine studies. In addition […]
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Linda Silka, a senior fellow at the University of Maine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, was mentioned in the Free Press article, “Departments of transportation team up with climatologists, engineers to address sea-level rise.” As the federal government moves forward with policy and funding to tackle impending sea-level rise, climatologists and engineers […]
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The Sun Journal reported efforts to bring the Top Gun entrepreneurship accelerator program to Lewiston-Auburn got a recent boost. Don Gooding, executive director of the Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development, said some of a recent $390,000 grant from the Economic Development Administration will be used to continue the work to bring the entrepreneurial program to […]
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Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, was quoted in the TODAY Food report, “Is your lobster fake? 5 ways to tell if your food is real.” The article cited a recently released report by Inside Edition accusing several restaurants across the country of using cheap seafood substitutes for […]
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The Sun Journal reported on a University of Maine Cooperative Extension video going viral more than five years since it was posted online. “How to Look for and Avoid Bedbugs in Hotel or Motel Rooms,” which was posted on the UMaine YouTube channel in October 2010, recently was picked up by Lifehacker, a daily weblog […]
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