Contact: Joe Carr (joe.carr@umit.maine.edu) ORONO — The University of Maine has relieved women’s basketball coach Cindy Blodgett of her duties, effective immediately. Blodgett, an iconic UMaine student-athlete who graduated in 1998 and played professionally for four years before becoming a coach, has been the Black Bear coach for the past four seasons. “All of us […]
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On Wednesday, March 30, University of Maine System Chancellor Richard Pattenaude will provide a presentation to a joint session of the Maine State Senate and House of Representatives. Beginning at 11:00 a.m., the Chancellor will present the “State of the University” address as part of the Legislature’s “State of the Education” session. Live audio and […]
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Several news organizations covered Monday’s announcement that UMaine and Orono native Steve Abbott agreed on a contract to keep Abbott, who was serving as the interim athletic director, in the position for two more years. The Portland Press Herald and Bangor television station WABI both had stories about the hiring, while a Bangor Daily News […]
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The Bangor Daily News had a story about a U.S. Department of Agriculture research laboratory located on the UMaine campus that could be closed and 18 jobs eliminated due to the federal budget impasse. The USDA’s New England Plant, Soil and Water Laboratory is the only one of its kind of the region. The lab’s […]
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Contact: Kathleen McIntyre at (207) 581-1541 Provost Susan Hunter, Vice President for Administration and Finance Janet Waldron, and Director of Budget and Business Services Claire Strickland invite you to attend the Fiscal Year 2012 public budget forums. These sessions, which will be identical, will provide preliminary information about the next fiscal year budget. The forums […]
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a guest column by Dean Ivan Manev of UMaine’s College of Business, Public Policy and Health. In the column, “Making I-95 a Maine innovation highway,” Manev explains some of the factors that make economic development clusters successful and offers suggestions about ways in which Maine can deal with related geographic […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571, joe.carr@umit.maine.edu To arrange interviews with Steve Abbott, contact Laura Reed at (207) 581-3646 ORONO — University of Maine President Robert Kennedy announced today that Steve Abbott has agreed to accept a two-year appointment as UMaine’s athletic director. Abbott has served as UMaine’s interim athletic director since last August. Over […]
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Contact: Nancy Fishwick, 581-2607 Members of the UMaine School of Nursing’s Family Nurse Practitioner Class of 2011 will hear from several of last year’s graduates on Thursday, March 31 about transitioning from registered nurse family nurse practitioner, and the credentialing requirements ahead. Two of the eight graduate students who received degrees and national certification last […]
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Carlton Brown, 581-2781 ORONO — The University of Maine’s team of surveying engineering students recently won second place in the National Society of Professional Surveyors’ 10th annual student competition in Las Vegas. As part of the competition, held in conjunction with the California Land Surveyors and Nevada Association of Land Surveyors joint conference, seven student […]
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The Portland Press Herald has a story about “Signs of the Seasons: A Maine Phenology Project,” a Maine Sea Grant and UMaine Cooperative Extension initiative. The project asks volunteers across the state to help track and document the effects of climate change on common plants and animals.
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