ORONO (AP) — Competitors in the New England Regional Concrete Canoe Competition are finding out if they can float their boats. The University of Maine is hosting the event, in which more than 200 students from 11 universities subject concrete canoes to judging. Saturday is the second and final day of the event. The day […]
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University of Maine System trustees OK sale of excess space
ORONO — The University of Maine System Board of Trustees on Monday gave campus leaders the go-ahead to dispose of properties scattered across the state as part of the system’s ongoing efforts to downsize. Recent independent reviews by Sightlines, a Connecticut-based facilities consultant, found UMS has more space than it needs, some of its buildings […]
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Maine universities show progress in campus overhaul, says firm
ORONO — The University of Maine System’s seven campuses have too much floor space and many of their buildings still are in dire need of renovation, but the system appears to be making some steps to correct its size problems, consultants told trustees. The system’s board met Sunday for the first day of a two-day […]
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University trustees weigh shedding excess properties
BANGOR — The University of Maine System board of trustees will get a glimpse at how efforts to reduce the system’s footprint are proceeding during a two-day regular meeting that starts Sunday at the University of Maine in Orono. When the meeting opens on Sunday afternoon, Sightlines, a facilities consultant, will update system officials on […]
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Women’s college basketball: Anderson’s future awaits
DURHAM, N.H. — As the school calendar winds down, particularly for seniors, the inevitable questions begin to fly. “What are you going to do for a job?” It’s no different for Greene native and Leavitt Area High School graduate Courtney Anderson, a guard playing for the University of Maine women’s basketball team. The Black Bears’ […]
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Women’s college basketball: UNH ends UMaine’s winning streak
DURHAM, N.H. — It may have been better to play poorly Sunday than later in the week, but that wasn’t much consolation to the University of Maine women’s basketball team. The Black Bears watched their 14-game winning streak come to a halt at Lundholm Gymnasium at the University of New Hampshire on Sunday. The Wildcats […]
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University of Maine System partially divests from coal investments, closes in on next USM president
BANGOR — The University of Maine System board of trustees voted unanimously Monday to partially divest itself from investments in the coal industry, making it the first land-grant higher-education institution in the country to cull a fossil fuel from its portfolio. The trustees approved the system’s new “coal divestiture policy,” which directs the system’s equity […]
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University of Maine in the business of certifying turbine blades
ORONO (AP) — The University of Maine has tested its largest wind turbine blade to date. UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center completed static strength testing this month of a 184-foot-long wind turbine blade built in North America for a Spanish company. Juan Diego Díaz, marketing director for Gamesa, which produced the blade, said North […]
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Facing protests, UMaine System committee recommends dropping coal investments
BANGOR — The University of Maine System should cut some investments in coal mining companies out of its portfolio and prevent future investments in the industry, a committee of the system’s board of trustees recommended Wednesday. In a 4-0 vote, the system’s Investment Committee backed a “coal divestiture policy,” which will appear on the consent […]
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University of Maine System committee to consider whether to stop investing in coal companies
BANGOR (AP) — A University of Maine System committee will consider whether the institutions’ should stop investing in coal mining companies. The Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees will meet Dec. 3 to discuss the proposal. If it’s approved, it will go to the seven-school board. Under the proposal, the university system would end […]