Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty provided comment for a Maine Sunday Telegram story about the impact and relevance of political parties in Maine politics. The story is based in part on post-election comments from Eliot Cutler, the independent candidate who lost Maine’s gubernatorial election by about one percent of the vote.
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Comments from Tori Jackson of UMaine Cooperative Extension were included in a Sunday Lewiston Sun Journal story about Thanksgiving alternatives to turkey. She provided some historical context about how turkey came to be associated with the holiday meal.
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Sarah Nelson, a researcher in UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, was interviewed last week for a segment on WERU radio’s “Talk of the Town” program. Along with representatives of Old Town High School and the Schoodic Education Research Center Institute, she discussed a collaborate project in mercury ecosystem science.
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Comments from Gordon Hamilton, a professor in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, are included in a front-page Sunday New York Times story detailing scientific research related to changes in Greenland’s glaciers. The story says that Hamilton and others are working “to answer one of the most urgent – and most widely debated – questions facing humanity: […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — As winter approaches, members of the UMaine community may wish to review the university’s inclement weather plan, online at http://www.umaine.edu/weatherpolicy/. While class cancellations attributable to weather are rare, there are a number of ways to stay informed about the current status of scheduled classes. Broadcast television and […]
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Contact: Collins Center for the Arts box office, 581-1755 The University of Maine’s Collegiate Chorale and Chamber Choir will perform a diverse program of choral work dating from the 16th century through the 20th century on Saturday, November 13 from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall. Admission is $7; admittance is […]
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Contact: Jane Conroy, (207) 564-3301 or toll free in-state, 1-800-287-1491 DOVER-FOXCROFT — The holiday shopping season is the most lucrative time of the year for many retailers, but it also is a time when consumers can build up sometimes unmanageable debt splurging on gifts or personal impulse-buying. University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator and family […]
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Contact: Edward Grew, (207) 581-2169 The October issue of the journal The Canadian Mineralogist includes a peer-reviewed article by UMaine Department of Earth Sciences faculty researcher Edward Grew, recent Ph.D. student Jeffrey Marsh and colleagues about the discovery in 2009 by Marsh of a new mineral, a species of garnet named “menzerite-(Y)” in honor of […]
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Contact: Paul Myer, 581- 1992; Nory Jones, 581-1971; Harold Daniel, 581-1933 ORONO — Three University of Maine business school faculty members are available to discuss the implications of the potential cessation of telephone directory distribution in Maine, as is being done in a growing number of states, as consumers continue shifting to the Internet for […]
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Contact: Barbara Murphy, (207) 743-6329; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 SOUTH PARIS — The numbers are in and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Maine Harvest for Hunger Program this year surpassed by more than 56.3 tons — or 112,687 pounds — the 87,319 pounds of fresh garden produce donated to charity last year by volunteer […]
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