WABI (Channel 5) reported the University of Maine football and women’s soccer team hosted the annual Jeff Cole Bone Marrow Drive. Students were asked to come to the Memorial Union and have a swab inside the cheek taken as a sample to be put in the national bone marrow registry.
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The St. John Valley Times previewed the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s open house May 6 at its new location on the University of Maine at Fort Kent campus.
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Targeted News Service picked up a University of Maine report on the Reading Recovery program. Twenty years of Reading Recovery in the state, led by the University of Maine, will be celebrated May 3 at the Cole Land Transportation Museum in Bangor.
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Genna Cherichello, FoodCorps service member with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was featured in a recent Penobscot Bay Pilot article. Last week, Cherichello helped Oceanside East’s High School Foundations Program plant an orchard beside the garden near the Rockland school and helped Medomak Valley High School’s horticulture, life skills and ceramics classes build an […]
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Coles celebrated for being driving force for Reading Recovery.
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed UMaine student Eliot Gagne for the article “Worshippers at Orono mosque not worried about anti-Muslim backlash after Boston bombings.” Gagne said UMaine’s Muslim Students Association and the Muslim Student Awareness Week last month helped raise awareness about Islam on campus and most likely helped prevent a backlash after the Boston […]
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WVII (Channel 7) and WABI (Channel 5) reported on the 19th annual HOPE Festival held at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. The festival, which stands for Help Organize Peace Earthwide and is centered around Earth Day, was put on by the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine. Doug Allen, education coordinator for the […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported UMaine students donated $47,000 to the EMHS Foundation Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals on Thursday. Planners of BearFest, an all-night dance marathon, presented the money that was raised during the February event.
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UMaine announces $1 million naming gift for the Emera Astronomy Center.
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Maine Harvest for Hunger program was mentioned in a recent “Food and Dining Dispatches” column for the Portland Press Herald. The program is seeking gardeners willing to plant an extra row of produce this year to donate to local soup kitchens and food pantries.
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