An Associated Press story profiles Brent Littlefield, Gov.-elect Paul LePage’s senior political adviser. The story details Littlefield’s successful campaigns when he was a UMaine student government leader in the early 1990s. Littlefield, who grew up in Winn, is a political consultant based outside Washington D.C. In the story, people associated with the LePage campaign point […]
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The Bangor Daily News reports UMaine’s Fogler Library will work with the Bangor Public Library to digitize some 800 World War II posters and make copies available for sale, with funds going to the restoration of the original images. Fogler will serve as the digital host for the project.
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MPBN has a story about Montreal psychologist William Bukowski, a former UMaine professor, recently published an article about an ongoing study he began in Maine more than 20 years ago. Bukowski told MPBN he worked in the late 1980s with a public school in a small Maine town, which he did not identify for confidentiality […]
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Ashley Hebert, a 26-year-old UMaine graduate from Madawaska who is now a University of Pennsylvania dental student, made it through the first cut of the ABC’s TV show, “The Bachelor,” according to the Portland Press Herald.
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Contact: Laura Yoder at laura.yoder@umit.maine.edu A UMaine graduate student studying the relationship between personality type and marital satisfaction is looking for 50 married couples to interview this month or early February, as part of her thesis research. Laura Yoder, a candidate for the Master of Science degree in Human Development, wants to survey couples who […]
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Contact: Steve Colburn, 581-1982; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — University of Maine accounting professor Steve Colburn is available to discuss how some recent tax law changes will affect taxpayers filing 2010 returns. Overall, individuals and business will pay much less in income taxes for 2010 and beyond because of the new tax law changes, […]
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The Bangor Daily News named Habib Dagher, the director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, one of its 11 people to watch in 2011. Dagher has led a $25 million effort to research the future of deepwater offshore wind power, an effort which will include the opening later this year of a wind […]
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UMaine graduate student Allison Melton was named by the Bangor Daily News one of 11 people to watch on the cultural scene in the Bangor area. Melton, who is pursuing a master’s degree in fine arts, has organized several public art events including an undergraduate art exhibit that was held in a vacant former hair […]
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The January/February issue of Yankee magazine includes a story on Jon Wilson, founder of WoodenBoat Publications and a national facilitator of victim-offender dialogues for restorative justice. A segment of the story focuses on Wilson’s presentation on his work in a UMaine peace studies class.
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A front-page Monday Bangor Daily News story features UMaine economics graduate student Sarah Morehead providing practical budgeting advice in the context of new year’s resolutions. Morehead who writes a personal finances blog and conducts workshops on that same subject.
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