Outreach

Student speaks with WABI about UMaine Miracle Network Dance Marathon

Allyssa Torrey, a University of Maine student and president of the UMaine Miracle Network Dance Marathon, visited the studio of WABI (Channel 5) to talk about the upcoming 12-hour fundraiser to help area hospitals support local children. The dance marathon will be held from 1 p.m. Saturday, April 1 to 1 a.m. Sunday, April 2 […]

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Times Record advances Mayewski talk

The Times Record reported Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, will be the featured speaker at the UMaine Mid Coast Alumni Chapter’s annual Maine Spirit Spring Dinner. Mayewski has led more than 55 expeditions and has been the recipient of numerous scientific and academic awards from institutions throughout the world, […]

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UMaine Miracle Network Dance Marathon April 1

The 12-hour University of Maine Miracle Network Dance Marathon will be held from 1 p.m. Saturday, April 1 to 1 a.m. Sunday, April 2 at the New Balance Student Recreation Center on campus. Since 2012, the annual event has raised more than $275,000 to help area hospitals support local children. The event, which in 2015 […]

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Martin quoted in BDN article on Maine summer camps

Ken Martin, an assistant professor of literacy education at the University of Maine, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an article about the state’s many youth summer camps. Martin is director of the Maine Writing Project and coordinator of its Young Authors Camps, which offers weeklong immersive creative writing camps at seven locations across […]

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Free Press advances info session on FDA produce safety rule

The Free Press reported Maine Coast Heritage Trust and Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District will sponsor an informational session for producers and growers on the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety rule from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 6, at the Knox-Lincoln Cooperative Extension Office in Waldoboro. The event is free and […]

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College of Education and Human Development sponsors Literacy Tea fundraiser

The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development is again sponsoring Literacy Volunteers of Bangor’s Literacy Tea fundraiser. The idea for the event came from Susan Bennett-Armistead, an associate professor of literacy at UMaine, whose mother-in-law held literacy teas in Michigan. Bennett-Armistead organized the first literacy tea in Bangor when she served on […]

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Washington Post reporters to discuss why journalism is vital

The Department of Communication and Journalism will welcome The Washington Post reporters Jessica Contrera and Katie Mettler as visiting journalists March 29–31 as part of the Alan Miller Fund for Excellence in Journalism. In addition to meeting students and visiting journalism classes, they will give a free public talk titled, “Clickbait, Fake News, and the […]

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UMaine program that connects students with older adults featured in BDN

The Bangor Daily News published a feature article on Project Generations, a new program at the University of Maine that connects college students with older residents in Greater Bangor for their mutual benefit. The program is informally modeled after a program that was founded at Ithaca College and now has a chapter at Cornell University […]

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VillageSoup reports on Expanding Your Horizons STEM conference for girls

VillageSoup reported a group of seventh-grade students from Oceanside Middle School in Rockland joined more than 450 middle school girls from around the state at the annual University of Maine conference that aims to provide a safe and encouraging environment to explore science, technology, engineering and math. The 30th Expanding Your Horizons conference took place […]

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