The Penobscot Times posted the University of Maine media release about its inclusion in Princeton Review’s 2020 guide of the best 385 colleges nationwide. Princeton Review comprises the list after reviewing annual data about academic offerings from college administrators. In the “Students Say” section, UMaine business, engineering, marine sciences, forestry, animal sciences, music and education […]
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The Advertiser Democrat utilized information from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab in the second part of its three-part series about tick identification, disease and encounter prevention. The article is titled “Ticked off: Avoid, protect, check, remove.”
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The Penobscot Times indicated that a pilot project — a joint venture between Old Town, Orono and the University of Maine for super high-speed internet access — will get underway this winter. The goal is to build fiber optic infrastructure that will provide the same level of connectivity to homes and apartments that UMaine has, […]
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The Calais Advertiser announced that Bonnie Newsom will conduct archeological research on a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp located on Passamaquoddy land in Eastern Maine. Newsom, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maine, will collaborate with Donald Soctomah, a Passamaquoddy Tribal Historic Preservation officer. The American Association of University Women recognized […]
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Sharon Klein, University of Maine associate professor of economics, contributed to Paul Hockenos’ opinion piece on CNN titled “The Green New Deal doesn’t require a tsunami of government funding.” While prices of solar power, wind power and batteries are low, “renewable energy should be spreading like wildfire across the United States. But although many states […]
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John Bear Mitchell shared his encounter with a creature for a WVII (Channel 7) piece titled “Some say Bigfoot seen in Maine.” “I never expected it, I never wanted it, never thought it would ever happen, but this happened,” said Mitchell, a citizen of the Penobscot Nation and the University of Maine Wabanaki Center outreach […]
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News Center Maine and WABI (Channel 5) reported that University of Maine sociology professor Karyn Sporer found that family members of children with severe mental illness and violent tendencies can employ three strategies to endure: Learn more about the illness and mental health system, join peer support groups, and find a silver lining or appreciate […]
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Seacoastonline.com covered a talk by Habib Dagher at the York Community Auditorium. “I asked myself, what is the world going to look like for our children,” said the executive director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine. “The challenge is to work together to use offshore wind to electrify heating […]
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News Center Maine, Mainebiz, WVII (Channel 7) and the Associated Press reported the University of Maine received nearly $500,000 from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration to fight the opioid crisis. The money will be used to increase community-based training for behavioral health students. In total, Maine health centers, […]
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The Bangor Daily News published Rob Glover’s op-ed “Look to Portugal to address the opioid crisis.” He advised the United States and Maine could learn from Portugal’s approach to its nightmarish situation in the 1990s, when roughly 1 in 10 individuals was using heroin. “Portugal’s prisons brimmed with those convicted of drug-related crime. High-risk behaviors […]
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