The Bangor Daily News has advanced a stage reading from “The Glooskape Chronicles: Creation and the Venetian Basket,” a free and public event at 7 p.m. Monday, May 21 at UMaine’s Neville Hall. The play was written by author and UMaine adjunct faculty member Donna Loring, and directed by Native American author and playwright William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., the UMaine Libra Diversity Professor in the Department of English.
Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
Sarah Smiley, a 2012 University of Maine master of arts in communication graduate and columnist for the Bangor Daily News, was interviewed for a CNN feature story and video on her “Dinner with the Smileys” project. Smiley and her children invite special guests once a week to share dinner with her family and fill the vacant chair of her husband, a U.S. Navy pilot deployed overseas. The Smileys have hosted U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a local minister, Bangor’s police chief, a cancer survivor and members of the UMaine men’s hockey team, among other VIPs.
Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
Western Farm Press, a national agricultural magazine covering agribusiness, has posted on its website a University of Maine video on the university’s advancing research and production of wood-based biofuels. The magazine notes that the research is of interest to the U.S. military for use in jet fuel. In the video, UMaine researchers discuss a major breakthrough in making biofuels as an alternative to traditional fuels.
Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for a Maine Public Broadcasting Network profile on Republican Scott D’Amboise, one of many candidates in the race for retiring U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe’s seat. Brewer suggested that D’Amboise could emerge as a leading contender among Republicans if he capitalizes on his Tea Party affiliations.
Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
An editorial in the Bangor Daily News about state bonding cited the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures & Composites Center and its research and development of deepwater offshore wind energy turbines as an example of the favorable return on investment that bonding can produce. UMaine’s Offshore Wind Laboratory is addressing the energy needs of the nation, employing people, teaching students and supporting more than 150 new full-time jobs, the editorial said.
Bonding also leverages funding from state and federal sources, it said.
Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
Research on how warming climate affected rainfall in the Southern Hemisphere is the subject of an article in the May issue of the journal Climate of the Past by University of Maine Climate Change Institute adjunct faculty member Curt Stager, a professor at Paul Smith’s College, and Paul Mayewski, Climate Change Institute director, Daniel Dixon, a post-doc researcher in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, and colleagues. The article was cited in a Paul Smith’s College news release on the readMedia website.
Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
Channel 5 (WABI) reported on a networking conference held Monday by UMaine’s ADVANCE Rising Tide Center for teachers from around the state to discuss promoting women’s careers in typically male-dominated professions. Amy Fried, professor of political science and a conference participant, said the event also gave teachers a chance to identify commonalities in research and teaching to enhance networking.
Contact: George Manlove (207) 581-3756
University of Maine Cooperative Extension small fruit and vegetable specialist David Handley was interviewed for an article in Mother Nature Network about the health benefits of strawberries. Handley cited the high levels of potassium and folate in the berries.
Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
Several University of Maine nursing students were interviewed for a story in the Bangor Daily News Health Perspectives special sections story about the UMaine School of Nursing. Students discussed their expectations when they take their skills into the workforce and how their education at UMaine translated to the real world.
Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
Rita Seger, a medical doctor and researcher with the University of Maine Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, was mentioned in an article in Science News magazine about what researchers can learn about the physiology of animals that store up fat for hibernation. Seger, who studies how American black bears keep their bones healthy during hibernation, found proteins in the bears’ blood indicating that bone-building cells are less active in hibernating animals than in spring bears. The findings were reported in the December 2011 issue of the journal Bone.
Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
