In a question-and-answer session about leadership on the Washington Post blog On Leadership, Small Business Administration head Karen Mills mentioned UMaine’s work with the boat-building industry to create new technologies. Mills is a Maine native.
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UMaine political science professor Mark Brewer provided commentary for post election reports including a Capitol News Service report published in the Bangor Daily News and Maine Today Media story about the gubernatorial election. Brewer also spoke with another Maine Today Media reporter and journalists from the Portsmouth Herald and CBC Radio in New Brunswick.
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Kenneth Palmer, UMaine professor emeritus of political science, is quoted in a Maine Today Media story analyzing Tuesday’s Maine gubernatorial election. That report is published in the Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal and Central Maine Morning Sentinel.
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UMaine junior Kelly Newton, who comes from Vancouver, British Columbia, has been named America East Field Hockey Player of the Year. Five of her teammates also earned league honors, as reported in today’s Bangor Daily News. Coach Josette Babineau’s Black Bears will take on UNH in the league semifinal on Friday.
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John Mahon of the UMaine business faculty provided live election analysis, looking at results from a business perspective, on Portland ABC affiliate WMTW Wednesday morning.
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine will conduct a full-scale emergency communications system test on Wednesday, Nov. 10. Two outdoor sirens, which represent an integral part of the system, will sound for several minutes shortly after 11 a.m.. Those sirens are audible throughout the UMaine campus and, under certain […]
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Contact: Carey Nason, 581-2515 The University of Maine Safe Campus Project will celebrate its 10th anniversary Tuesday, Nov. 16 from 2-3:30 p.m. at the Wells Conference Center, with hors d’oeuvres, entertainment and informal remarks. Safe Campus Project promotes education, intervention and abuse prevention to help reduce sexual assault, relationship abuse and stalking. It also provides […]
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Contact: Catherine Schmitt, (207) 581-1434 or catherine.schmitt@umit.maine.edu Paul Anderson, the director of the University of Maine-based Maine Sea Grant College Program, has been named a recipient of the national Sea Grant Association President’s Award. Anderson served as president of the Sea Grant Association from 2007 to 2008, during which time he worked with the National […]
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A recent visit to several organic farms and grain mills in Denmark by three University of Maine Cooperative Extension agricultural specialists to learn about that country’s crop rotation strategies and grain production was reported in a blog on the website of Wholesome Wave, a nonprofit organization in Connecticut, whose mission is to make healthy, affordable […]
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Comments from Kenneth Palmer, UMaine professor emeritus of political science, were included in an early Portland Press Herald story following the Maine gubernatorial election on Tuesday night.
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