The website MENAFN.com, which covers news from and about the Middle East and North Africa, carried a Portland Press Herald story about the Center for African Heritage’s work with the UMaine Regional Learning Center in Falmouth. According to the story, the Center for African Heritage, which has a garden at Tidewater Farm near the Regional […]
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The recently published “Tackling Football: A Woman’s Guide to Understanding the College Game,” co-authored by UMaine professor Sandy Caron and former Black Bear football player Mike Hodgson was noted on the website Boxscore News. Caron is a professor of family relations and human sexuality and has served on the UMaine Athletic Advisory Council for more […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal featured a group of UMaine students who are sorting trash around the state this summer as part of a Maine State Planning Office-funded study to gauge Maine’s solid waste habits. Travis Blackmer, an economics student, told the newspaper the students will be able to look at recycling in each community to […]
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Half of the plants described by Henry David Thoreau in his classic 1854 book Walden have disappeared from Walden Pond. That is an example of how relatively rapidly climate change can modify our natural environment, says University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant climate change educator Esperanza Stancioff.
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The Portland Press Herald on Wednesday featured the three-acre farm in Falmouth run by immigrants and refugees in the Center for African Heritage. The gardens are at the University of Maine’s Cooperative Extension Tidewater Farm, part of the University of Maine Regional Learning Center. Gardeners use the leased space for growing vegetables for African community […]
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Several local media outlets reported that a filmmaker is holding auditions on the UMaine campus for a film to be shot next January. The Bangor Daily News had a story and noted the auditions will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, at Lord Hall. Bangor television station WABI had reported […]
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UMaine’s work with the Richmond, Maine-based company Kennebec River Biosciences, was mentioned in a story in the Times Record newspaper. The story noted the company has worked with UMaine to foster relationships between the private and public sectors. Company CEO and President William Keleher is a UMaine graduate. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Comments from Kathryn Jovanelli, assistant coordinator of the UMaine Museum of Art, were included in a Miami Herald story about sculptor Gerry Stecca, whose use of clothespins has garnered him national attention. The museum recently hosted an exhibition of Stecca’s clothespin art, and one of his pieces is in the museum’s lobby. Jovanelli told the […]
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The Bangor Daily News noted UMaine’s inclusion as a top college in two nationally recognized ranking systems. UMaine was included in “The Princeton Review’s Best 376 Colleges: 2012 Edition,” which lists only about 15 percent of the 2,500 colleges and universities in the U.S. “The Fiske Guide to Colleges” recognizes 330 institutions. UMaine was one […]
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Channel 7 (WVII) television news Tuesday evening featured the new special issue of the Maine Policy Review, a 248-page compilation of essays, articles and research about food and food systems in Maine, recently published by the UMaine Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. Ann Acheson, researcher at the center and editor of the special issue, was […]
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