Sunday’s Lewiston Sun Journal featured a Q&A interview with UMaine Cooperative Extension educator Tori Jackson, who lives in Wayne. She talked about her work with gardeners and farmers, along with others who work in natural resources-based industries, and her life-long interest in music.
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Mark Anderson, senior instructor in the UMaine School of Economics, will return to his native Aroostook County to give a pair of mid-September talks on sustainability. A key contributor to Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative, a statewide, interdisciplinary research and outreach effort based at UMaine, Anderson will discuss “Toward a Theory of Sustainability: An Exercise in […]
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Stephen Bush, an internationally recognized expert on the connection between communication technology and electric power grids, will discuss “Communication for the Smart Grid” at the University of Maine’s Barrows Hall on Thursday Sept. 22. Bush’s presentation, scheduled for 3:15-4:15 p.m., is part of an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) seminar, presented by the […]
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Kathryn Hopkins, University of Maine Extension educator in the Somerset Extension office in Skowhegan, received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of County Agriculture Agents during the recent 2011 Annual Meeting and Professional Improvement Conference in Overland Park, Kansas. Hopkins was one of several honorees representing the top two percent of the membership […]
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University of Maine softball coach Deb Smith has announced her resignation, effective immediately. A 1994 UMaine graduate, Smith was a pitcher whose on-field accomplishments led to 1994 All-American honors and 2001 induction into the University of Maine Sports Hall of Fame. “As a student-athlete and a coach, Deb has made significant contributions to Black Bear […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) interviewed retired U.S. Navy Capt. James Settele, assistant director of UMaine’s School of Policy and International Affairs, and anthropology professor Henry Munson, a specialist on the religious and political evolution of the Middle East and American foreign policy, for a story about the nation’s response to the terror attacks on Sept. 9, […]
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UMaine political scientist Amy Fried was mentioned in a Huffington Post article about allegations of voter fraud in Maine committed by more than 200 college students. Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster, who has made the allegation, also alleges that undocumented immigrants cross into the country and influence the outcome of U.S. elections. Fried refuted […]
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The Bangor Daily News included comments from James Gilbert, UMaine professor of wildlife ecology, in a story about the levels of man-made contaminants found in Maine’s harbor seals. Gilbert told the BDN that UMaine scientists attached tiny radio transmitters to 24 harbor seals in Maine and Massachusetts and intended to use the radio signals to […]
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The bridge-in-a-backpack technology developed at UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center was featured in a Bangor Daily News report on the replacement of two bridges in Carrabassett Valley that were recently washed out due to flooding from Hurricane Irene. An official from the Maine Department of Transportation commented that although the DOT has a […]
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The UMaine community will host a Sunday memorial event for those who lost their lives in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 Sunday, September 11, 2011 University Mall, near the Fogler Library 8:30am: Gathering 8:40am: Welcome and ROTC Color Guard 8:46am: Moment of Silence (in memory of the first tower being struck) 8:47am: Speaker 9:02am: […]
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