UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer was quoted in an Associated Press story on the Boston Globe website about Sen. Olympia Snowe and her reelection campaign. Brewer said although the conservative enthusiasm in Maine’s recent GOP presidential caucuses probably didn’t go unnoticed by Snowe’s campaign, votes for libertarian Ron Paul and conservative Rick Santorum doesn’t necessarily […]
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Bangor TV station WABI reported on a group of UMaine nursing students who are going to Belize for spring vacation. The students will volunteer in local hospitals and health clinics and bring medical supplies. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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The Lewiston Sun Journal has a story about Lanette Bryant of Dixfield, a third-year UMaine student majoring in sociology and minoring in women’s studies. Bryant graduated recently from Emerge Maine, a program for democratic women who have an interest in running for political office. Bryant said she plans to finish her degree, start a career, […]
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A volunteer project by the University of Maine student chapter of Engineers Without Borders — bringing a septic system and safer water to a small Honduran village — has been selected as one of the top three finalists in the 2012 Newman’s Own Foundation Campus Community Service Challenge.
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The website Adventures in Climate Change is running all of the blog entries about a team of scientists from the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute who are on an expedition in the Tupungatito Glacier, located in a volcanic crater at an elevation of 19,000 feet in the Andes Mountains in Chile. Paul Mayewski, director […]
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Three University of Maine-related research projects have received seed grant awards from the Maine Technology Institute (MTI).
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Channel 7 (WVII) interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor and ornamental horticulturist Lois Berg Stack for a Thursday, Feb. 16, 6 p.m. news report on spring garden planning tips as warm weather approaches. Stack says February is the time when gardeners should be planning their gardens and even starting some vegetables indoors. Stack also […]
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Members of the University of Maine Muslim Student Association (MSA) raising money to aid starving and drought-stricken Somalia are inviting members of the campus and surrounding communities to a special presentation Monday, Feb. 20 on campus to raise awareness about the suffering and famine. The students — many with roots in the African nation — […]
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Websites for the Columbia Journalism Review and The National of Abu Dhabi each ran a column written by Justin Martin, a UMaine CLAS-Honors preceptor of journalism. Martin wrote in the CJR about a recent segment on the TV news magazine show 60 Minutes about the nation of Qatar, which Martin claimed contained inaccuracies and told […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) interviewed two UMaine students for a feature report about their colorful courtship – a proposal made on the front page of a local newspaper supplement. Engineering major Sean Carter of Ellsworth popped the question last week to math graduate student Rachel Rier of Lubec in The Weekly, a supplement to the Bangor […]
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