WABI reported on The AMainezing Race, a scavenger hunt at the University of Maine aimed at welcoming new students. ”We’re doing so many more diverse programs, so many more inclusive programs. Just getting students involved whether they’re on campus, in Maine, or Alaska or anywhere in between,” said Ben Evans, coordinator of campus activities. The […]
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The Associated Press printed a story featuring a round-up of COVID-19 news from New England, which included the number of active coronavirus cases among students and staff within the University of Maine System, and a list of UMaine System campuses with positive tests. WABI, the Bangor Daily News, and the Portland Press Herald also reported […]
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WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) reported that remote and in-person classes at all University of Maine System campuses resume Monday, Aug. 31, noting that across the system, nine students and staff have tested positive for coronavirus as of Aug 31.
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News Center Maine, WABI (Channel 5), the Bangor Daily News and the Penobscot Bay Pilot reported that seven students across the University of Maine System tested positive for COVID-19. Those seven students include students at the University of Maine, University of Maine School of Law and the University of Maine at Fort Kent. UMaine is […]
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University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy was interviewed by WBTS (Channel 10 in Boston) about the return of students to the UMaine campus for the first time since March. “We’re a university, we’re about bringing people together in campus settings and communities so my biggest hope is that when we start classes next week, it […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that one student has been suspended from the University of Maine and seven others have been disciplined after attending parties where COVID-19 guidelines for social gatherings were ignored. “We delivered a letter to all students today reminding them that parties in particular are unsafe and they should not participate,” Dana […]
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News Center Maine , the Bangor Daily News and WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) reported that a fourth student at the University of Maine has tested positive for COVID-19, increasing the number of positive cases across the University of Maine System to five. The most recently identified case is a member of the same fraternity […]
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Jessica Miller, professor of philosophy and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine; Erika Ziller and Katherine Weatherford Darling co-wrote an opinion piece published in the Bangor Daily News titled “COVID-19 demands ethical, as well as scientific, decisions.” Ziller and Darling are members of the Maine chapter […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot reported that the University of Maine is extending asymptomatic COVID-19 testing through the end of in-person instruction this fall, with plans to sample approximately 2,000 students, staff and faculty members at least every 10 days. “More than 5,000 Black Bears have already committed themselves to being leaders in our science-based public […]
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University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy was quoted in an Associated Press report on the return of students to the University of Maine campus on Monday, just days after four students, including one from the University of Maine School of Law in Portland, tested positive for coronavirus. “Our screening strategy is working as intended, identifying […]
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