• COMMENCEMENT NEWS COVERAGE
Monday's Bangor Daily News includes a front-page story
about Saturday's UMaine commencement stories. An Associated
Press story is online at the
Boston Globe site. Information about UMaine's
commencement was included in a
Maine Sunday Telegram report about all of Saturday's
college graduations across the state. Channel 5 (WABI) and
Channel 2 (WLBZ) also provided reports on UMaine's
commencement.
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PRESS HERALD STORY ON GRADS
Saturday's Portland Press Herald featured a report
about Maine college graduates who are planning to stay in Maine
for jobs. The story, which includes references to the UMaine
Office of Institutional Studies' data about UMaine grads,
includes comments from Megan Worcester, a Winterport native who
graduated from UMaine on Saturday with a chemical engineering
degree. She is headed to Rumford to work for New Page Corp.
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BDN FEATURES TOP STUDENTS
Saturday's Bangor Daily News included a front-page story
profiling UMaine valedictorian Marianne Schneider and
salutatorian Anh Do.
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PRESS HERALD COMMENCEMENT WEB SITE
The Portland Press Herald Web site includes a page with
links to online information about all of Maine's college and
university commencement events, including the UMaine page at
http://www.umaine.edu/commencement08/.
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BDN REPORT ON HARTGEN BIOGRAPHY
Monday's Bangor Daily News includes a story describing "Vincent
Andrew Hartgen: His Art and Legacy," a new book about the
legendary UMaine artist and professor who died in 2002.
The story includes perspectives from Hartgen's son Stephen, who
collaborated with his brother and Maine art expert Carl Little
on the book.
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LABBÉ IN STORY ON FRANCO CULTURE AND HISTORY Comments
from Yvon Labbé, director of UMaine's Franco-American Centre,
are included in a Maine Sunday Telegram story on the
Kennebec Journal Web site, looking at perspective in
Maine's Franco-American community about the 400th anniversary
of the founding of Quebec City.
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PERRY COLUMN HIGHLIGHTS UMAINE R&D A
Saturday Bangor Daily News op-ed column by Sen. Joe Perry of
Bangor draws attention to UMaine's recent R&D
successes. Written in response to a May 3 column from leaders
of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce and Maine's chapter of
the National Federation of Independent Businesses. Perry's
column describes his perspectives on Maine's business
development climate. He cites R&D successes in ballistic tent
panels, composite boats and forest bioproducts among recent
positive developments.
