UMaine News

Lauri Sidelko, the director of UMaine’s Student Wellness Resource Center, was mentioned in a Kennebec Journal report on the news that UMaine-Augusta will ban smoking on its campus starting in January. Sidelko said UMaine, which was the first University of Maine System campus to ban smoking, has had fewer than 10 students reported for violations. […]

University of Maine vice president for student affairs and dean of students Robert Dana spoke with Maine Public Broadcasting Network Tuesday about UMaine’s designation by the Princeton Review as being among the top 20 so-called party schools in the country. Dana said the listing, while dubious, presents an opportunity to remind parents and students of […]

The Bangor Daily News and Channel 2 (WLBZ) were among the news organizations to report that the 2013 Princeton Review includes the University of Maine as 19th in the top 20 schools rated as best party schools. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756

The Bangor Daily News published an article about the ongoing investigation into the death July 28 of UMaine student Shirley Ladd, a 22-year-old New Hampshire resident who fell from a steep mountain trail in Acadia National Park. The Seacoastonline.com newspaper group in southern Maine also carried the report. Investigators said they want to determine exactly […]

Bangor TV station WABI reported on UMaine student Benton Purnell, who recently completed a 67-day canoe trip that took him the entire 2,500-mile length of the Mississippi River. Purnell said in an interview the trip came about when his father encouraged him to do something interesting this summer. He started in northern Minnesota, where he […]

In a story on the Biddeford-Saco-OOB Courier website, UMaine student Neil St. Cyr was included for starting a new pop-up clothing business in a Main Street storefront in Biddeford. The store will be open until Aug. 31 as part of the Heart of Biddeford’s program to provide positive youth experiences and promote entrepreneurism in the […]

The Concord Monitor newspaper in New Hampshire published an extensive article about the loss being felt at the University of Maine over the weekend of a student from Barnstead, N.H. who worked at UMaine’s New Balance Student Recreation Center. Friends and co-workers of 22-year-old Shirley Ladd, who succumbed to injuries suffered in a fall from […]