WVII (Channel 7) reported free admission at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor will continue throughout 2014. Free admission is made possible by a donation from longtime museum sponsor and supporter Penobscot Financial Advisors. The company’s CEO, James Bradley, said UMMA plays an important role in the growing arts community, and […]
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University of Maine graduate students in the College of Education and Human Development teamed up with Tri-County Technical Center (TCTC) to develop and implement support for the pre-technical program. TCTC offers 10 career and technical programs to high school students from six schools in Piscataquis and Penobscot counties. The pre-technical program serves students facing challenges […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported members of the University of Maine women’s basketball team and head coach Richard Barron visited Reeds Brook Middle School in Hampden to raise money for Play 4Kay, an initiative that gives coaches and teams the opportunity to raise breast cancer awareness and funds for research through games and community events. The […]
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The Maine Edge reported accounting students in the Maine Business School at the University of Maine will offer free federal and state income tax filing assistance, under the supervision of Steven Colburn, associate professor of accounting. Except for the weeks of March 2 and 9, sessions will be held 2–4:30 p.m. Thursdays, Feb. 6 to […]
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WABI (Channel 5) spoke with University of Maine sophomore Matt Dexter about his participation in 4K for Cancer — a 4,000-mile team run from San Francisco, Calif. to Baltimore, Md. that aims to raise awareness of cancer and raise money for cancer research. For 42 days during the summer, Dexter and 33 other college students […]
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WVII (Channel 7) spoke with University of Maine sociology major Shannon Brenner at the Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center Choice and Chocolate event in Bangor. The event was held to celebrate the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade and to raise awareness of the 1-in-3 Campaign that aims to silence […]
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The University of Maine is holding the third annual 12-hour BearFest Dance Marathon at 6 p.m. Feb. 1 at the New Balance Student Recreation Center to raise money for Eastern Maine Medical Center, an EMHS Foundation Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. The event — put on by students — aims to raise more than last year’s […]
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Lisa Morin, coordinator of the University of Maine’s Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for an article about college food pantries. Morin said UMaine’s Black Bear Exchange food pantry, which opened in 2009, serves about 30 people a week and is self-sustaining through year-round food drives and fundraisers. She […]
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The Morning Sentinel published an article about Katie Quinn, a bartender at Bullwinkle’s restaurant on Sugarloaf Mountain, who created a Bloody Mary mix to help reduce overhead. Quinn cites Recipe to Market, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension course, with helping her meet necessary guidelines, such as seeking her commercial kitchen license and label registration […]
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The latest column in the Portland Press Herald’s Maine Gardener series included information on programs offered by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension staff. Lois Berg Stack, an ornamental horticulture specialist with UMaine Extension, will teach soil science for gardeners April 15–16 at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Brunswick, and a beginning beekeeping course […]
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