WVII television interviewed UMaine police chief Roland LaCroix for a story describing UMaine’s emergency notification procedures (umaine.edu/emergency). The story was developed following last week’s news reports indicating that a U.S. Dept. of Education report says that Virginia Tech did not provide the required timely notifications during the April 2007 shooting on that campus.
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — In a show of appreciation for the University of Maine’s support of the equine industry, the Maine Farriers Association presented a cash donation to UMaine’s equine program on Dec. 10. The association’s $1,500 donation was to thank the students, faculty and staff associated with the UMaine program […]
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included an op-ed column by President Kennedy. The column describes the benefits of public-private partnerships in helping UMaine achieve its goals and serve the state.
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Monday’s Portland Press Herald includes a guest column by labor historian Charles Scontras, a research associate in UMaine’s Bureau of Labor Education. The column looks at the “meteoric rise” of the Knights of Labor in Portland in the late 19th century. Scontras describes that organization as the nation’s “first major labor movement.”
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Leslie Forstadt, a child and family development specialist in UMaine Cooperative Extension, was quoted in a Sunday Maine Today Media story about pets as holiday gifts. Forstadt urges that families consider carefully the ramifications of such a decision. She also recommends that parents consider interim steps to prepare the family for a new pet, such […]
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WABI broadcast a Saturday report from the annual Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstration, held at UMaine’s Collins Center for the Arts and Hudson Museum.
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WLBZ/WCSH had a Friday news report featuring Donna Coffin of UMaine Cooperative Extension describing the benefits of LED holiday lights. Those decorations can save a good deal of money compared to other lights, and they are safer because they do not get as hot.
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WABI television featured members of UMaine’s Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity in a Friday story about the group’s holiday philanthropic efforts. In the story, which included an interview with chapter president Chris McGary, the students delivered 25 children’s gifts to Brewer Federal Credit Union as part of the credit union’s partnership with the Salvation Army to […]
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UMaine Prof. Robert Causey was interviewed as part of a Friday WABI story about a clinic and check presentation at UMaine’s Witter Farm. The Maine Farriers Association, as part of a meeting, seminar and clinic at the farm, gave $1,500 to the UMaine equine program to support future educational programs that benefit UMaine education programs […]
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Contact: Pam Kimball, (207) 581-2456 ORONO — University of Maine education students now have a new student-teaching option — in Australia and New Zealand classrooms. The College of Education and Human Development recently formalized a partnership with AustraLearn, an Australian nonprofit that places students in schools in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. The […]
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