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8 unusual facts about Orono


Alfred Bailey

Visits between scholars from Atlantic Provinces and the University of Maine became frequent after the establishment of the New England - Atlantic Provinces Study Center at Orono in 1966.

Andy Boychuk

Andrew ("Andy") Boychuk (born May 17, 1941 in Orono, Ontario) is a retired long-distance runner.

Ciarán Cuffe

Cuffe attended the Children's House Montessori School in Stillorgan, Gonzaga College in Ranelagh, the University of Maine at Orono, University College Dublin, and the University of Venice.

Erica Commeau

After giving up her crown to Katee Stearns of Orono in November 2006, Commeau competed in the first season of the Maine Model contest, a "micro-mini" series of America's Next Top Model broadcast on UPN throughout the state of Maine.

Goodwin Liu

Liu is married to Ann O'Leary, the daughter of a social worker and a union leader, who grew up in Orono, Maine.

Henry Pogorzelski

As well as holding a faculty position at the University of Maine, Pogorzelski is the director of the Research Institute for Mathematics (formerly known as the Research Institute for Semiological Mathematics), an independent research institute located near the University of Maine in Orono, Maine and modeled after the Institute for Advanced Study.

Jetstream furnace

Jetstream furnaces (later Tempest wood-burning boilers), were an advanced design of wood-fired water heaters conceived by Dr. Richard Hill of the University of Maine in Orono, Maine, USA.

Orono

Orono, Maine, a town in Penobscot County, home to the University of Maine


Maine State Route 16

SR-16 runs from the New Hampshire state line (signed as NH-16) at Wentworth's Junction (near Lake Aziscohos) in the west to Orono at the eastern terminus.

Sarah Smiley

Sarah Smiley has a B.S. in Education from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama and a M.A. in Mass Communication fro the University of Maine in Orono.

WMEB

WMEB-FM, a radio station (91.9 FM) licensed to Orono, Maine, United States


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