The University of Maine student group Engineers Without Borders-UMaine (EWB-UMaine) was named Sunday the winner of the Newman’s Own Foundation Campus Community Service Challenge, which comes with a top prize of $25,000. The award was announced at America East Conference Basketball Championship tournament in Hartford, Conn.
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Bangor TV station WABI reported that Justin Edwards, a freshman on the UMaine men’s basketball team, was named Wednesday the College Sports Madness America East Rookie of the Year. Edwards was the top-scoring freshman in the conference this year. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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Children, parents and guardians will have a chance Wednesday, March 7 to learn about more than 100 Maine summer camps for kids at the Summer Camp Fair being held from 4-7 p.m. at the University of Maine New Balance Student Recreation Center.
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Sarah Smiley, a columnist for the Bangor Daily News wrote Monday about the dinner she and her three sons shared with UMaine men’s ice hockey coach Tim Whitehead and student-athletes Nick Pryor and Kyle Beattie. The Black Bear hockey representatives were part of the “Dinner with the Smileys project,” in which Sarah Smiley invites special […]
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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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