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UMaine News - Tuesday, July 1, 2008


Independence Day is UMaine Day at Bangor Raceway
Bangor Raceway will host its traditional "University of Maine Day" on July 4th and will feature retrained racehorses from the UMaine program. Each of the post parades will be marshaled by two UMares who are retired racehorses in the retraining program at UMaine. The five-year-old BEST OF PLANS who raced at Scarborough but couldn't post competitive times has gone through the retraining program and is now owned, as of July 1st and ridden by Rebecca Powers. She is a junior equine business management major and the current president of the UMaine Equestrian Team. She also serves as the Assistant Race Secretary at Bangor Raceway and is working on a Track Management Internship at the raceway this summer and fall. 



UMaine in the News


Hudson Museum Artifacts Cited in Newsletter
 The Maine Historical Society in Portland included in its summer newsletter an article about Native American art from the Hudson Museum collections, which were included in an exhibit at the society from February through May and for a series of workshops for Portland-area teachers and third- and fourth-grade students. The exhibit, “Gifts from Gluskabe: Maine Indian Artforms,” introduced students to Wabanaki art, crafts and lore. It also helped Southern Maine schools attain compliance with LD291, a state law that requires schools in Maine to incorporate Wabanaki studies into classroom curricula. The Maine Historical Society says Southern Maine has relatively few Native American resources available to its schools.

Johnston Interviewed by Reporters in Korea
 Kim Johnston, UMaine's senior associate director of admission, spoke to reporters from the Korea Economic Daily, The Chosunilbo Daily, and the Maeil Business Newspaper among others during a recent conference in Seoul, South Korea. Johnston, president of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, was in Seoul for a conference sponsored by the Korean Council for University Education. With a colleague from UC-Berkeley, she made a presentation on How U.S. Institutions of Higher Education Select Undergraduate Students.


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