Steve Solloway’s Maine Sunday Telegram column provided perspectives on UMaine women’s basketball coach Cindy Blodgett, who’s about to begin her fourth season in that role. Solloway and Blodgett discussed the program’s state and its future when she was in Portland Friday to address that city’s Rotary Club.
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Channel 2 broadcast a story previewing the Sunday Sept. 26 “Out of the Darkness” suicide prevention and awareness walk scheduled for UMaine. The story includes an interview with Wanda Cunningham and Bethany Walsh from the UMaine Counseling Center, which is organizing the activity. The walk starts at 1 p.m. and online registration is available.
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Maine Ahead magazine features an extensive profile of Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The story focuses primarily on offshore wind technology initiatives at the center, but also features background on Dagher himself and a sidebar about bridge-in-a-backpack technology developed there.
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine recently was named one of just 18 colleges and universities listed in The Princeton Review’s “Green Honor Roll.” Recognizing schools for their commitment to sustainability, the Green Honor Roll lists those institutions that received the highest possible score on The Princeton Review green […]
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A three-day series of presentations by scientist and filmmaker Randy Olson begin on Tuesday Sept. 21. One highlight will be a 7 p.m. Wednesday Collins Center for the Arts screening of Olson’s film “Salt of the Earth.” That film, which premiered 20 years ago, features Stonington brothers Brian and Stevie Robbins describing life working in […]
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UMaine’s Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism will host a blood drive Tuesday Sept. 21 and Wednesday Sept. 22 at the Student Rec Center. The blood drive is scheduled for 11 a.m.-5 p.m. each day.
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Kathleen Ellis of the UMaine English and Honors College faculty and Nancy Ogle of the UMaine music faculty will discuss “Ripple Effect: The Influence of Women Poets on 20th Century Composters” on Tuesday Sept. 21, 12:15 p.m. in Memorial Union’s Bangor Room. The talk is part of the UMaine Women’s Studies and Women in the […]
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Several UMaine researchers will take part in a conference about the rise and fall of Maine’s sardine industry, according to Village Soup. Pauleena MacDougall of the UMaine-based Maine Folklife Center, and Bill Kuykendall of UMaine’s New Media Center will participate in the Oct. 22-23 conference.
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The website FreshPlaza.com has a report quoting UMaine Cooperative Extension Fruit Specialist Renae Moran about the apple harvest in Maine. Moran said the harvest is down because of an early spring frost.
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Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, commented in a Thursday WABI television story about the installation of a new bridge in Hermon. The structure uses “bridge in a backpack” technology developed under Dagher’s direction at the UMaine center. UMaine spinoff company Advanced Infrastructure Technologies is working with a local construction […]
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