Comments from Amy Fried, a UMaine political scientist, were included in a Seacoast Online newspaper report on how media buys are impacting the race for Maine’s open U.S. Senate seat. Fried says the campaigns are taking a different shape in Maine compared to the rest of the country as pro-Republican groups are promoting the Democrat […]
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“See Touch Hear,” an exhibit currently at Aysmmetrick Arts gallery in Rockland by three UMaine students pursuing interdisciplinary doctoral degrees, was reviewed by the Free Press, a mid-coast community newspaper. The article says participatory or interactive art is becoming more common, and gives viewers a chance to “complete and give life to art on their […]
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Harvard University Professor Theda Skocpol, an expert on social policy, will give a talk, “The Future of Health Policy,” at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 8. The talk is free and open to the public, and will be held at the University Club on the second floor of UMaine’s Fogler Library. Skocpol is director of […]
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University of Maine School of Economics Director George Criner was interviewed recently for a Channel 7 (WVII) report on the slow recovery of the Maine economy and housing sales. Criner said home buyers have benefited from lower housing costs resulting from the economy. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Channel 5 (WABI) covered a conference Tuesday at the University of Maine held for industry workers, university researchers and others to discuss common problems facing the state’s forest industry. Jeffrey Benjamin, a professor of forest operations who was interviewed for the report, said stakeholders should be communicative to determine ways to fully utilize resources that […]
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Channel 2 (WLBZ) covered the 2012 Northern Maine Children’s Water Festival held Tuesday at UMaine. The event, which is sponsored by the university in conjunction with the Maine Center for Disease Control, Verso Paper and Maine Department of Environmental Protection, is designed to creatively educate school students about the importance of clean water and healthy […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried an article about Bangor High School students starting to analyze data collected during a University of Maine-assisted scientific balloon launch recently. UMaine electrical engineering professor Rick Eason helped the students launch and later retrieve the weather balloon that carried sensors and other equipment to 95,000 feet to monitor temperature, ultraviolet […]
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UMaine was noted in an article in the Kennebec Journal about Maine colleges and universities awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court decision on whether admissions offices may or may not use race or ethnicity in student enrollment decisions. University of Maine is among those whose admissions offices do not consider race and ethnicity in enrollment. Contact: […]
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The Pacific Standard magazine posted a blog that cites research by University of Maine psychology professor William Farthing about risk-takers and daredevils such as extreme skydiver Felix Baumgartner. A 2005 study by Farthing revealed that men who do risky things don’t necessarily impress anyone, until they do something dangerous for altruistic reasons, which at that […]
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Researchers with UMaine’s Climate Change Institute are blogging while on a trip to South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The expedition members are Climate Change Institute Director Paul Mayewski, UMaine graduate students Bjorn Grigholm and Mariusz Potocki, UMaine postdoctoral researcher Dan Dixon, Chilean researchers Gino Casassa and Marcelo Arevalo, EMT medic Alex Kuli, […]
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