A photo of UMaine students celebrating a past Martin Luther King Jr. Day was used on the Bangor Daily News website Monday to illustrate an editorial about diversity in Maine. The photo showed UMaine students doing a “human knot” activity with children at the Bangor Mall. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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The University of Maine’s Collins Center for the Arts will hold an informational event at noon on Wednesday, Sept. 19, starting at the Hilltop dining facility, to introduce students to the benefits available to them through Collins Center events and special offers. The event will move during the noon hour from Hilltop to the Memorial […]
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The University of Maine will welcome guests Friday, Saturday and Sunday for Family and Friends Weekend, which includes a host of activities around campus. The events begin Friday evening with a show at the Jordan Planetarium and music, food and drink specials at the Bear’s Den in the Memorial Union. Saturday’s activities include the Black […]
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An article in the Bangor Daily News, which discussed a second weekend of partying at The Grove student apartment complex, included comments from UMaine Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Robert Dana, who said university police are prepared for weekend parties and first-year students often test their limits, but many problems are […]
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The University of Maine Division of Student Affairs invites members of the campus community to a memorial service from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 in the Memorial Union chapel for Shirley Ladd, a UMaine student who died this summer as a result of a fall from a ledge in Acadia National Park. […]
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In honor of the UMaine football team’s 1,000th game, Black Bears fans voted for the program’s top 10 moments.
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University of Maine Vice President for Enrollment Management Jimmy Jung was interviewed about UMaine enrollment for an Associated Press article about enrollments within the University of Maine System. Several news outlets, including the Bangor Daily News, the Boston Globe website and The Republic in Columbus, Ind., ran the report. In spite of almost universal enrollment […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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One student’s experience working with the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium and taking a UMaine sculpture class.
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