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Newspaper Article Notes UMaine Facility Expansion

The Lewiston Sun Journal published a Bangor Daily News report that noted the University of Maine System Board of Trustees approved an expansion at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center to create a facility for testing wind and wave effects on wind turbines. Contact: George Manlove, 207.581.3756

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BDN Report on Car-Pedestrian Accident

The Bangor Daily News reported that a UMaine student was hit by a vehicle, driven by another UMaine student, on campus Nov. 6. UMaine police charged the driver of the vehicle with driving with a suspended license, according to the newspaper. Contact: George Manlove, 207.581.3756

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School of Earth and Climate Sciences Hosting Minerals Conference

The University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences is among the host groups for the Maine Metallic Minerals Society conference being held Friday, Nov. 9 at the Black Bear Inn in Orono. This daylong conference for professionals will include presentations on the geology and mineral potential of Maine, the history of non-ferrous metal […]

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University Singers to Perform Nov. 10–11

The University of Maine singers will perform two concerts this weekend in Minsky Recital Hall in Class of 1944 Hall on the UMaine campus. The group will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 10, and again at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 11. Admission is $9 or free with a student MaineCard. The repertoire […]

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MPBN to Broadcast Recent SPIA Lecture on al-Qaida

Maine Public Broadcasting Network is scheduled at 1 p.m., Friday, Nov. 9 to air a lecture recorded at the University of Maine in October given by former CIA officer and al-Qaida and terrorism expert Bruce Riedel. Riedel serves as an adviser for the UMaine School of Policy and International Affairs (SPIA), which sponsored his presentation. […]

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Newspaper Reports on UMaine Motherhood Class in Belfast

The Boothbay Register carried an article about a new class, Social Construction of Motherhood, being offered in January at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. UMaine sociology professor Kim Huisman will teach the course, which stems from a grant Huisman received from the Maine Humanities Council to fund “The Midcoast Maine Mother-Daughter Project,” […]

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UMaine Tuition Variation Noted in California Op-Ed

A tuition variation at the University of Maine and at many other universities was cited in an opinion piece in the University of California, San Diego newspaper, The Guardian about a Florida recommendation that a task force should study whether that state should reduce tuition for strategic areas of interest, including STEM (science, technology, engineering, […]

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BDN Reports on UMaine Obesity, Economic Cost Projection

The Bangor Daily News reported on a new study by University of Maine economist Todd Gabe on the current and projected medical costs of obese youth in Maine. Estimated annual medical costs, excluding indirect costs such as lost work time due to weight-related afflictions, were about $452 million in 2011 and could cost as much […]

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Phippen Interviewed for Planned ‘Pet Sematary’ Documentary

The Ellsworth American website has posted a video interview with retired University of Maine English professor Sandford Phippen by two filmmakers planning a documentary on the making of the 1980 movie “Pet Sematary,” based on Steven King’s 1983 horror novel of the same name. Phippen, who lives in Hancock County, where the movie was filmed, […]

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Witter Farm Superintendent Interviewed for Garelick Closure Report

Comments from the University of Maine’s Jake Dyer, superintendent of the university’s J.F. Witter Teaching and Research Center, which includes a 40-head dairy herd, were included in a Bangor Daily News article about the effect on Maine farmers who sell milk to Garelick Farms, which has announced it will close in January. Dyer said small, […]

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