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2 unusual facts about University of Maine


Adam Pinkhurst

Mooney, then a professor at the University of Maine and a visiting fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, proposed to match Pinkhurst's flamboyantly-written signature on an oath he signed to his lettering to the handwriting in these early manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, thought to be closely derived from Chaucer's holograph.

Kevin Killian

For example, in 2008 he was a featured speaker at a University of Maine "Poetry of the 1970s" conference.


1964 College World Series

The Most Outstanding Player was Joe Ferris of the University of Maine.

Austin Watson

At first, Watson did not show interest in the OHL, and verbally committed to the University of Maine Black Bears, planning on playing for the US U-17 team.

Bobby Wilder

Upon graduation from the University of Maine in 1987 with a degree in physical education, Wilder served as a graduate assistant coach for two seasons under Jack Bicknell at Boston College, where he earned his master's degree in educational administration in 1990.

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.

Cross Insurance Center

On July 31, 2013, the University of Maine announced that the Maine Black Bears basketball teams would play "over half" of their games at the new arena.

Harold Alfond

He has donated money to various colleges to help improve their sports facilities; for example, the Alfond Arena and Alfond Stadium at the University of Maine, the Harold and Ted Alfond Sports Center at Rollins College, The Alfond Forum at the University of New England and the Alfond Center at Saint Joseph's College of Maine.

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.

Nelson Madore

Madore earned his BA in history and government in 1965 from the University of Maine and his MA in history from Maine two years later in 1967 and taught for two years at Penquis Valley High School in Milo, Maine.


see also

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.

Black bear

Maine Black Bears, the athletic teams representing the University of 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.

John Farley

John Wells Farley (1878–1959), American football player and coach, head football coach at the University of Maine and Harvard University

La Salle Explorers men's basketball

Current head coach Dr. John Giannini previously coached at Rowan College, where he won the NCAA Division III national championship in 1996, and the University of Maine, where he left with the Black Bears' best winning percentage in school history.

Orono

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

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.

Thomas McCann

Thomas A. McCann, head football coach at Bowdoin College (1913–1914) and the University of Maine (1917)

William Kenyon

William C. Kenyon (1898–1953), American football, basketball, and baseball coach at the University of Maine