Channel 7 (WVII) reported on a UMaine School of Economics research project that examines the contents of trash in Maine being sent to landfills and incinerators that could be reused or recycled at a substantial solid waste cost savings. Students Travis Blackmer and Karl Chandler explained how the university’s new single-sort systems works and how […]
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Justin Martin, UMaine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences – Honors Preceptor of Journalism, will be interviewed Monday afternoon (3 p.m. eastern time) on Wisconsin radio station WLIP. In a discussion that will be available live online, Martin will discuss the state of the cable television industry in the U.S.
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ORONO — The 2011 Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstration will take place Saturday, Dec. 10 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. The event is free and open to the public.
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Prof. George Criner of the UMaine School of Economics and senior economics major Travis Blackmer were interviewed for a WLBZ television story about an extensive project analyzing the content municipal trash in 17 Maine communities. Initial results suggest that 20 percent of the discarded trash could have been recycled, saving those municipalities significant amounts of […]
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The UMaine Black Bear football team has qualified for the national FCS playoffs. The NCAA announced the playoff field on Sunday, with the 8-3 Black Bears receiving a first-round bye. They will play Appalacian State in Boone, N.C. on Saturday Dec. 3. More details are in a Portland Press Herald blog post by Kevin Thomas.
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Twenty-one UMaine students were displaced by a Saturday night fire at the off-campus Stillwater Apartments complex on College Avenue. As the Bangor Daily News reported, university student affairs personnel were at the fire scene attending to the students, arranging for campus accommodations and other interventions as necessary to help those students continue their studies without […]
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After receiving and updating final totals for this year’s Harvest for Hunger campaign, the University of Maine Cooperative Extension gardening program coordinator says volunteer gardeners around the state donated more than 140 tons of garden produce to charity.
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University of Maine sociologist Amy Blackstone was interviewed for a recent article on the MyHealthNewsDaily website about the how sexual harassment can hurt a woman’s health. Blackstone has researched various types of workplace harassment among men and women of multiple ages and demographics. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Representatives from the UMaine Office of Sustainability and the School of Economics engaged in an analysis of the specific contents of residential garbage that could be diverted through reuse, recycling or composting have scheduled an educational exhibit and display from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday, Nov. 18 in front of the Memorial Union.
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Events surrounding Thursday’s William S. Cohen Lecture, which included a talk by Gen. James Jones and roundtable with Cohen, were covered by several local media outlets. Jones was President Barack Obama’s first National Security Advisor and Cohen, a Bangor native, is the former congressman, senator, and secretary of defense under President Bill Clinton. The Bangor […]
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