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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Several news organizations, including the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom, continued coverage of the accidental death Saturday of UMaine student Shirley Ladd, who fell from a mountain trail in Acadia National Park. The CBS News Travel Section also carried a report. Local news stations Channel 2 (WLBZ) and Channel 5 (WABI) interviewed Jeff Hunt, […]
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Several news organizations, including the Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News, Channel 5 (WABI) (http://www.wabi.tv/news/32134/update-name-of-new-hampshire-hiker-who-fell-off-trail-in-acadia-national-park-released), and Channel 2 (WLBZ) reported on the death Saturday of 22-year-old UMaine student Shirley Ladd, who died from injuries suffered in a fall in Acadia National Park earlier in the day. Ladd, a psychology major with a minor in business […]
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University of Maine senior Shirley Ladd from Barnstead, N.H., died July 28 from injuries she sustained earlier that day while hiking in Acadia National Park. She was 22. Ladd was a psychology major with a minor in business administration who worked in the New Balance Student Recreation Center on campus, most recently as a student […]
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The Hartford Courant has a story about Nick DiTaranto, a UMaine civil engineering major who is spending the summer as an intern in West Hartford, Conn., inspecting sidewalks on a bicycle. DiTaranto is close to completing the 245-mile inspection and has logged more than 700 sidewalk issues in a town database. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) […]
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Coastal, maritime and marine science communities, including researchers at the University of Maine, will benefit from federal funding of $2 million recently awarded to the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Observing Systems, known as NERACOOS. The Gulf of Maine buoy array operated by the University of Maine Physical Oceanography Group under the direction of UMaine […]
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Recently the University of Maine recognized 2,026 students for achieving Deans List honors in the Spring 2012 semester. Of the students who made the Deans List, 1,728 are from Maine, 242 are from out of state, and 56 are from foreign countries. Listed below are students who received Deans List honors for the 2012 Spring […]
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PRWeb has posted a news release from the GoAbroad organization, which recently named the University of Maine’s Study Abroad Office as one of five national finalists for an Innovation in Marketing Award for its “Celebration” radio show to promote studying abroad. The show airs Wednesdays from 4-5 p.m. on WMEB-FM 91.9. Contact: George Manlove, (207) […]
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