Monday’s Bangor Daily News includes a front-page story about Bahman Baktiairi, a UMaine political science professor from 1986-2009. According to a report in Thursday’s Salt Lake Tribune newspaper, the University of Utah has fired Baktiari following an investigation into charges of plagiarism. Baktiari left UMaine in 2009 to become director of the University of Utah’s […]
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Some 1,895 people, mostly high school seniors and their family members, are registered for the University of Maine’s Monday, Aug. 22 Summer Tour 2011 open house event. Modeled after a similar open house last August, Summer Tour 2011 represents a fresh approach to the traditional open house. Prospective students and their families will have ample […]
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WVII recently interviewed University of Maine Advanced Manufacturing Center Director John Belding about a new medical device, an electronic tuning fork, developed by Orono podiatrist Dr. Todd O’Brien and staff and students at the AMC. O’Brien intends to have the device mass-produced and available for physicians and also diabetics, whose foot sensitivity often is measured […]
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David Yarborough, University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor and blueberry specialist, discussed in a WLBZ news report Tuesday how dry weather Downeast this summer has affected blueberry crop. Berries are smaller than normal, but just as tasty, he says.
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Prof. Emeritus Richard Hill provided comment for a WLBZ/WCSH televison story about natural gas as a home heating option. Bangor Gas is reporting that it expects to add 1,000 more customers during this year. Hill cautions that market considerations “may drive up the price of natural gas.”
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Prof. Mark Brewer from the UMaine Dept. of Political Science is quoted in a Wednesday Bangor Daily News story about the potential political implications of Congressional redistricting in Maine. The Maine Legislature is scheduled to convene on Sept. 27 to consider a plan to be presented by a bipartisan redistricting commission.
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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about the potential for the synthetic drug known as “bath salts” to be an issue at UMaine during the coming academic year. The story includes comments from Vice President for Student Affairs Robert Dana, police chief Roland LaCroix and Lauri Sidelko, director of Alcohol and Drug Education Programs.
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The annual Graduate School picnic is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 14 from 4-6 p.m. on the Stodder Hall patio. Graduate students with their families, faculty members and support personnel are all invited to attend. The rain date is Thursday, Sept. 15
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U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will be at the University of Maine on Thursday, Aug. 18 from approximately 1:45-3:15 p.m. Salazar, a former Democratic U.S. Senator from Colorado who has been a member of the Obama cabinet since January, 2009, will be in Maine for a series of meetings arranged by Sen. Susan […]
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Tuesday’s New York Times science section includes a story about “The World’s Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline.” Prof. Joe Kelley of the UMaine Dept. of Earth Sciences is one of the book’s four co-authors. The Times feature also includes a slide show of images related to the book and the […]
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