The University of Maine Museum of Art is inviting the public to a free afternoon tea with artist Arnold Mesches at 2 p.m. on June 20. Mensches’ paintings are featured this summer in the UMMA exhibition, “Arnold Mesches: A Minispective,” which opens June 22. In a career spanning over half a century, Mesches, a prolific […]
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Nicole Golden, a University of Maine junior who is a double major in psychology and sociology, has been named a winner of a Truman Scholarship. Golden is one of 54 winners selected from 587 candidates nominated by 292 colleges and universities. Truman Scholars were chosen by 16 independent selection panels on the basis of their […]
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University of Maine baseball player Stephen Perakslis has been selected in the 21st round, 644th overall, of the 2012 MLB Entry Draft, by the Chicago Cubs. He becomes the second Black Bear drafted in as many days, joining Jeffrey Gibbs who was selected Tuesday in the ninth round, 303rd overall, by the Arizona Diamondbacks. Perakslis, […]
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University of Maine baseball junior pitcher Jeffrey Gibbs was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the ninth round, 303rd overall, Tuesday afternoon in the 2012 MLB Entry Draft. Gibbs, a business major from Toronto, has seen action in 42 games for the Black Bears, making 39 career starts. He is 16-13 in his career with […]
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The Bangor Daily News covered the Saturday lecture by equal pay pioneer Lilly Ledbetter at the annual Maine NEW Leadership conference Saturday at the University of Maine. Mary Cathcart, a Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center senior policy fellow and co-director of the event, was interviewed for the story. She said women still need to be […]
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The Portland Press Herald carried an article about another community garden at a school site in South Portland, which is dedicating three rows of produce for donation to charity through the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Harvest for Hunger program. The garden is at Hinckley Park. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for a Kennebec Journal article profiling Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Benjamin Pollard of Portland. Brewer said among Pollard’s immediate goals should be establishing name recognition, given his limited political experience. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Channel 5 (WABI) aired a report on the high-altitude balloon launch over the weekend by several University of Maine engineering students and some from Bangor High School. The experiment was funded by the Maine Space Grant Consortium with support from NASA. Electrical and computer engineering professor Rick Eason was interviewed for the report. He said […]
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Charles Kittridge, former agricultural engineer with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension for 31 years until his retirement in 1986 will receive the 2012 Barbara Hikel Award for exemplary volunteer service to the university after retirement. He’ll receive the award during a luncheon Tuesday, June 5 at noon with UMaine President Paul Ferguson at the […]
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The University of Maine women’s basketball program, which recently completed its 2012 recruiting season, has been ranked 36th in the nation out of 342 teams by the NCAA Division-I women’s basketball teams’ Chris Mennig, national scouting director with Blue Star Basketball. The Black Bears locked up three student-athletes from the United States in the fall […]
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