Judith Josiah-Martin, director of Multicultural Programs and ALANA Center at UMaine, was recently interviewed for a video produced by the America East Conference, of which many UMaine sports teams are members. The video is part of the conference’s effort to honor the African-American faculty and staff members from each of the nine schools affiliated with […]
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UMaine’s Male Athletes Against Violence (MAAV) student group appeared at the State House Tuesday to help mark Maine’s second Domestic Violence Awareness Day. The Bangor Daily News interviewed Roosevelt Boone, a former UMaine football player who was representing MAAV, who said adults and parents need to call out jokes, TV shows and music lyrics that […]
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Television news reports featured two separate fundraising projects headlined by UMaine fraternities. Bangor TV station WLBZ reported on Beta Theta Pi’s bonfire and sleepout event to raise awareness and money for Bangor Rape Response Services. Bangor’s WABI had a report on a Pi Kappa Alpha’s Cycle for Life, which raised money for leukemia research. Contact: […]
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A volunteer project by the University of Maine student chapter of Engineers Without Borders — bringing a septic system and safer water to a small Honduran village — has been selected as one of the top three finalists in the 2012 Newman’s Own Foundation Campus Community Service Challenge.
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Members of the University of Maine Muslim Student Association (MSA) raising money to aid starving and drought-stricken Somalia are inviting members of the campus and surrounding communities to a special presentation Monday, Feb. 20 on campus to raise awareness about the suffering and famine. The students — many with roots in the African nation — […]
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The Bangor Daily News had a story about UMaine’s Muslim Student Association, which recently raised $4,000 to send to the Humanitarian African Relief Organization. The organization coordinates the delivery of food and water to drought-stricken camps, town and villages. Three UMaine students who are members of the organization, including Vice President Abdu Traheem Sbayi, were […]
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The Bangor Daily News ran a preview story of “Avenue Q,” an upcoming production by Maine Masque, a UMaine student theatre organization, which features puppetry. UMaine theater professor Sandra Hardy told the BDN in an interview that in learning how to do puppetry for the show, her students gained a useful skill they can use […]
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The University of Maine’s eighth annual International Dance Festival, showcasing an array of traditional music, dance and costumes of some of the 400 international students at UMaine is set for Saturday, Feb. 18, at the Collins Center for the Arts.
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A news release posted on the Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch website noted that UMaine has entered into the melanoma-awareness In Your Skin program, which includes a no-tanning pledge and contest with cash awards, gift certificates, tickets to Six Flags New England, and more. The program is a partnership between Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Department […]
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The York Weekly interviewed two York High School graduates who are now UMaine students and members of UMaine’s all-male Maine Steiners a cappella group. The Steiners are competing in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella quarterfinals on Feb. 18 in Boston. Hirst is studying vocal music education with plans to stay an extra year […]
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