Several media outlets covered last Friday’s Maine Wind Blade and Windstorm Challenges, which were held in UMaine’s New Balance Student Recreation and Fitness Center. The Bangor Daily News interviewed several students who participated in the challenges, which featured competitions for middle and high school students to design, build, implement and test wind power technology components […]
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Jim Dill, University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management specialist and professor of biological sciences was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article on expectations for seasonal insect populations, including mosquitoes, black flies, bees and garden grubs. Dill says the light winter may mean fewer mosquitoes, more grubs, and probably little change in black fly […]
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The Bangor Daily News has an article about the seasonal opening of the Orono Bog Boardwalk this morning, led by Grace Ferguson, wife of UMaine President Paul Ferguson. The boardwalk, which is visited by about 30,000 people a year, is jointly managed by the University of Maine, the Orono Land Trust and the city of […]
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Three engineers and a biochemist are the recipients of the top annual faculty awards at the University of Maine, which will be presented May 4 as part of the Academic Recognition Convocation.
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Rachel Binder-Hathaway of Millinocket has been named the valedictorian of the University of Maine Class of 2012. Kayla Peard of York is the salutatorian. Both will be honored during UMaine’s 210th Commencement slated for May 5 at Harold Alfond Sports Arena.
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The Bangor Daily News advanced Saturday’s Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium teachers’ workshop, which was held at UMaine in the Donald P. Corbett building and also in the UMaine art department’s sculpture workshop. Daniel Lux, a faculty member in the UMaine Department of Earth Sciences, was also noted as being scheduled to give a talk on […]
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UMaine men’s hockey coach Tim Whitehead appeared in a photo that went with a story on the MSNBC website about Bangor author Sarah Smiley and her project to entertain a different dinner guest each weekend while her husband is deployed. Whitehead and members of the hockey team were dinner guests in February. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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A column in the Bangor Daily News describes resources for the genealogists at UMaine’s Fogler Library and the Bangor Public Library. Saucier says Fogler’s hours are convenient and resources unique. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Channel 5 (WABI) and the Bangor Daily News carried reports on proper identification, harvesting and preparation of fiddleheads. The Bangor Daily News interviewed Lauren St. Germaine, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension home horticulture coordinator, and Dave Fuller, agriculture and non-timber forest products professional at UMaine Extension. Channel 5 last week interviewed Fuller and Jason […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) reported on Bearfest, a recent all-night dance marathon organized at UMaine by students to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network. More than 300 students and supporters participated and raised an estimated $30,000, according to the report. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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