Stories about University of Maine
Number of US babies born suffering from drug withdrawals triples
By LINDSEY TANNER, The Associated Press on April 30, 2012, at 4:15 p.m.
CHICAGO — Less than a month old, Savannah Dannelley scrunches her tiny face into a scowl as a nurse gently squirts a dose of methadone into her mouth. The infant is going through drug withdrawal and is being treated with the same narcotic prescribed for her mother to fight addiction ...
Bangor Gas says Casella’s UMaine pipeline plan would harm company, customers
HALLOWELL, Maine — Bangor Gas Co. believes a seven-mile pipeline that would bring methane gas from Juniper Ridge Landfill to the University of Maine in Orono would hurt its ratepayers and lead to the “degradation of our franchise,” a company attorney said Wednesday. EcoGas LLC, a subsidiary of Casella Waste ...
President Lincoln left a lesson in leadership, author Doris Kearns Goodwin tells University of Maine audience
ORONO, Maine — For Pulitzer Prize-winning author, historian and baseball fanatic Doris Kearns Goodwin, a great leader is someone who can put aside personal strife, make friends of enemies and work with rivals to improve the standing of others. For Goodwin, no one embodied that better than U.S. President Abraham ...
UMaine makes Princeton Review’s green honor roll
ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine in Orono is one of just 16 schools profiled for the Princeton Review’s “Green Honor Roll” for 2012. The accolade came in the latest edition of “Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges,” which was released April 17. The guide recognizes higher education ...
Renowned activist Bill McKibben speaking at Orono HOPE Festival
Environmental activist Bill McKibben will speak about climate change and environmental health at the 18th annual HOPE Festival at the University of Maine in Orono on Saturday, April 21. His keynote speech, open to the public, is scheduled for noon at the Student Recreation and Fitness Center on campus. Time ...
Orono High School students prepare small-scale wind turbine blades for competition
ORONO, Maine — Two teams of Orono High School students put in extra hours during their April vacation and woke up early on Wednesday to put one of the final touches on small-scale wind blades they will use to compete in next week’s Wind Blade Challenge at the University of ...
Portrait of women symbolizes 20 years of work by Women’s Resource Center
ORONO, Maine — Four years ago, Sylvia Herbold went looking for a wall. The University of Maine art student needed a place where she would hang the painting that would be her honors project. Now an art teacher in Ellsworth, Herbold, 26, of Surry found what she was looking for ...
12-hour dance at UMaine to benefit pediatric care
The Associated Press on March 31, 2012, at 12:06 p.m.
ORONO, Maine — University of Maine students are kicking up their heels in the name of pediatric health care. More than 500 students are taking part in a 12-hour dance marathon being held at the university field house in Orono. The event kicks off Saturday night and ends 12 hours ...
UMaine student studies methadone’s effect on infants
By Meg Haskell, for the University of Maine on March 22, 2012, at 12:52 p.m.
ORONO, Maine — Life gets off to a rough start for babies born to drug-dependent women, even when their mothers’ addiction is clinically managed with methadone during pregnancy. Born with their own chemical dependency, approximately 70 percent of these babies spend weeks in intensive care being treated for a cluster ...
Locations, artists named for Schoodic Sculpture Symposium
The eight proposed sites and sculptors for the 2012 Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium have been selected and artists are preparing to create works of art that will be located in Bangor, Orono and Old Town and on the Husson University and University of Maine campuses. The sculptures will be created ...
Bike coalition sets dates for swaps in Orono, Portland
The Associated Press on March 11, 2012, at 3:15 p.m.
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Bicycle Coalition of Maine has announced the dates for its two bike swaps. The group will hold its Great Maine Bike Swap at the University of Maine’s student recreation and fitness center in Orono on April 22, and at the University of Southern Maine’s Sullivan Gym ...
UMaine awards state’s first certificate in aerospace engineering
ORONO, Maine — Last September, Richard McGrath lost his job at Bath Iron Works when the company laid off 44 engineers because design work on the next-generation Zumwalt destroyer had mostly wrapped up and BIW couldn’t find the funding to keep everyone on payroll. Now, the 52-year-old professional engineer is ...
University of Maine System chancellor candidates to visit campuses next week
BANGOR, Maine — The three finalists for the University of Maine System chancellorship will visit three system campuses next week, and students, employees and members of the public will have the chance to hear from each candidate during open forums. The itineraries are identical in times and locations of the ...
Old Town mill faces fine despite help from state, taxpayers
By Lance Tapley, Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting on Jan. 11, 2012, at 12:10 a.m.
Maine has spent millions of dollars to prop up the Old Town pulp mill while steadily fining the mill’s owner for pollution. And now the biggest fine ever is imminent. The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting has reviewed a “proposed administrative consent agreement” from the state Department of Environmental ...
H. Edwin Young, UMaine president, was Wisconsin chancellor during violent Vietnam protests
By By T. Rees Shapiro, The Washington Post on Jan. 03, 2012, at 8:18 p.m.
H. Edwin Young, who led the University of Wisconsin at Madison through some of the most dramatic campus violence of the Vietnam War era, died Jan. 2 at an assisted living facility in Madison. He was 94. He had complications from a stroke, said his son, Nathan Young. The Newfoundland ...
UMaine athletics director Abbott to speak at MCI
PITTSFIELD, Maine — University of Maine Athletics Director Steve Abbott will speak at Maine Central Institute’s Parks Gymnasium at 7:45 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11, as part of the school’s Patterson Lecture Series. Abbott served as chief of staff for U.S. Sen. Susan Collins from 1997 to 2009 and ran for ...
11 to watch in 2011 — where are they now?
on Dec. 26, 2011, at 7:58 p.m.
On Jan. 1, 2011, the Bangor Daily News named 11 people to watch in the coming year. Some of them were household names, others were newcomers to the state’s political and economic landscape, a handful worked relatively quietly in their fields of endeavor. Not all of them fared well as ...
UMaine using hand scanners at dining halls to deter sharing of ID cards
By Anthony Takacs on Dec. 25, 2011, at 5:19 p.m.
ORONO, Maine — Hand scanners are now commonly used for students to gain entry to University of Maine dining halls as a way to foil the costly sharing of student identification cards. The hand scanners, installed in Hilltop, Wells and York dining commons last semester, are mandatory for all students ...
PIKE brothers return to fraternity house after major overhaul passes inspection
ORONO, Maine — After spending nearly the entire first semester ousted from their home, the brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha — or PIKE — have returned to their fraternity house. Of the 22 PIKE members who lived in the College Avenue house when it was shut down by town officials ...
UMaine ‘national treasure’ of folklore to get new home at Library of Congress
ORONO, Maine — Legend has it that the Maine Folklife Center hatched from a shoebox under the desk of University of Maine professor Edward “Sandy” Ives. Half a century ago, that box held just a few audio recordings of Mainers describing their way of life and way of making a ...
Glenburn art teacher killed in Friday morning collision in Bangor
Harvard student asked to leave bar for ‘bad behavior,’ not drunkenness
LePage blasts teachers union for endorsing same-sex marriage question
Reporting crime
A people’s revolt in Bar Harbor
Old Town football coach steps down
Perakslis helps UMaine beat Albany; Binghamton next in America East tournament
Orono baseball shuts out archrival Old Town for ninth straight victory
Stony Brook knocks out UMaine to win America East tournament
Aroostook businessman expands company out of home with hit mobile app 7 Little Words
Small idea launches major project in Hampden
Former CEO of MaineToday Media Richard Connor sued over $250,000 in loans
Out of the ashes, Central Street’s garden grows
New, old methods combine to deter scrap metal thefts in Aroostook
Gary Allan talks with the BDN leading up to Bangor concert
Mid Coast Actor’s Studio provides new forum for classic plays
Signs lead artist to opportunity
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