Leslie Forstadt, a child and family development specialist in UMaine Cooperative Extension, was quoted in a Sunday Maine Today Media story about pets as holiday gifts. Forstadt urges that families consider carefully the ramifications of such a decision. She also recommends that parents consider interim steps to prepare the family for a new pet, such […]
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WABI broadcast a Saturday report from the annual Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstration, held at UMaine’s Collins Center for the Arts and Hudson Museum.
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WLBZ/WCSH had a Friday news report featuring Donna Coffin of UMaine Cooperative Extension describing the benefits of LED holiday lights. Those decorations can save a good deal of money compared to other lights, and they are safer because they do not get as hot.
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WABI television featured members of UMaine’s Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity in a Friday story about the group’s holiday philanthropic efforts. In the story, which included an interview with chapter president Chris McGary, the students delivered 25 children’s gifts to Brewer Federal Credit Union as part of the credit union’s partnership with the Salvation Army to […]
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UMaine Prof. Robert Causey was interviewed as part of a Friday WABI story about a clinic and check presentation at UMaine’s Witter Farm. The Maine Farriers Association, as part of a meeting, seminar and clinic at the farm, gave $1,500 to the UMaine equine program to support future educational programs that benefit UMaine education programs […]
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Contact: Pam Kimball, (207) 581-2456 ORONO — University of Maine education students now have a new student-teaching option — in Australia and New Zealand classrooms. The College of Education and Human Development recently formalized a partnership with AustraLearn, an Australian nonprofit that places students in schools in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. The […]
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Contact: Victoria Blanchette (207) 581-2204 The College of Engineering at the University of Maine is honoring some of its finest today during the Francis Crowe Induction Ceremony being held at 2 p.m. at 120 Little Hall. Honored inductees include distinguished, honorary, faculty and graduate members. “This is a wonderful way to recognize the hard work and […]
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WABI television broadcast a Thursday report about a UMaine competition involving computer science student who have been designing computer games. The competition, conducted in conjunction with Jackson Laboratory, was a final project for a programming course.
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Contact: Sandra Sigmon, (207) 581- 2049 ORONO — Many of us, especially in northern climates, can experience the depressing effects of seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, as days grow shorter and darker with the onset of winter. For some, the syndrome can be debilitating. UMaine professor of psychology Sandra Sigmon, a cooperating professor of the […]
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Some UMaine engineering students spent last Saturday in Cape Elizabeth judging the Southern Maine VEX Robotics Competition, according to the South Portland Sentry blog. The UMaine will host the state robotics competition in February at the Bangor Auditorium, the blog posting stated.
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