The University of Maine will hold its 24th annual Culturefest Saturday, Oct. 29, a festival of cultural exhibits, traditional singing, dancing, clothing and cuisine from around the world presented by UMaine’s international students. Held annually in the UMaine Field House from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Culturefest features cultural exhibits, an international food court, international […]
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Marie Hayes, a UMaine professor of psychology, was interviewed for a Kennebec Journal report on babies who are born addicted to prescription painkillers. Although the long-term physical effects on newborns are not known, Hayes said there is cause for concern about the effects of opiate exposure before birth and the withdrawal process. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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The Bangor Daily News previewed Thursday’s Janelle Monae concert, which will take place at UMaine’s Collins Center for the Arts. The Grammy Award-nominated singer is performing as part of MTV’s Campus Consciousness Tour to promote sustainability. Tickets can be purchased at the Collins Center website. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Eliot Cutler, a Maine businessman and former gubernatorial candidate, will be the keynote speaker at the 2011 Maine Chinese Conference on Oct. 28-29, according to a report in the Bangor Daily News. UMaine’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is one of the host organizations of the event, and Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC […]
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The number of schoolchildren in Maine for whom English is a second language — some 4,800 — increased in the past year by 53.3 percent, while K-12 populations in the state declined by 8 percent in the same period, according to state education data.
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The new exhibits at the UMaine Museum of Art were featured in a Bangor Daily News story. The exhibits, which opened Friday and run through Dec. 30, include painting, photograph, and assemblage. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The Boston Globe has an Associated Press report on a $3.3 million federal grant given to researchers in five eastern states, including researchers at UMaine, to study the decline in native bee populations. The grant will be used to examine how the bees’ diversity is affected by factors such as landscapes, farm size and pesticide […]
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UMaine Cooperative Extension Educator Ellie Libby was interviewed by the Kennebec Journal for a story about FoodCorps, a new national service organization that is an offshoot of AmeriCorps. UMaine was one of 10 national partners selected to participate in the program. Libby told the newspaper Maine has the maximum number of FoodCorps service members than […]
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Marcella Sorg, a forensic anthropologist in UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center who researches issues related to substance abuse, commented in a Saturday Portland Press Herald report about Maine’s problems related to people with painkiller addictions. The story, by Press Herald reporter John Richardson, was the first in a six-part series.
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Jim Dill, a pest management specialist on the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty, was quoted in a Maine Sunday Telegram story about fleas and how to manage them in a household setting. Dill points out that ridding a home of fleas is a tricky proposition, but that regular vacuuming is key.
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