Channel 5 (WABI) interviewed University of Maine senior Samantha Laverdiere, an Auburn native majoring in psychology with a biology minor, about a fundraising project she is undertaking to make and sell candles, ribbons and bracelets to benefit children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, where a gunman recently killed 20 students and six […]
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network, Bangor Daily News and the Washington Post were among the news organizations reporting the death of former University of Maine President Lloyd Elliot at age 94. He was president of UMaine from 1958–65 and of George Washington University from 1965–88. The article included comments from UMaine President Paul Ferguson and […]
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The Bangor Daily News has posted an announcement about a presentation on United States and Pakistan relations at 5 p.m., Monday, Jan. 7 at the University of Maine Buchanan Alumni House featuring Husain Haqqani, a Pakistani scholar and public figure who served as Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States from 2008–11.
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Researchers at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Keck Laser Ice Facility laboratory have installed and calibrated a new, state-of-the-art Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy instrument that will change the way isotopes in glacial ice are measured for reconstructing and understanding ancient climate change. Researchers Andrei Kurbatov, a Climate Change Institute (CCI) assistant research professor, CCI […]
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University of Maine faculty and staff have an opportunity to purchase discounted men’s ice hockey tickets for the three January home games at $10 each. The Black Bears, fresh from winning the 2012 Florida College Hockey Classic Tournament, are playing Mercyhurst at 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 5, and Merrimack at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday, […]
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A free four-week program exploring stress-reduction strategies is being offered to UMaine faculty and staff from 8:30–10 a.m. or 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. each Tuesday in February in the Multipurpose Room of the Memorial Union. Leslie Forstadt, University of Maine Cooperative Extension faculty member and child and family development specialist, will lead the classes. Attendance is […]
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Lloyd Elliott, University of Maine President from 1958–65, died Jan. 1 at the age of 94. After leaving UMaine, Elliott served as president of George Washington University from 1965 until his retirement in 1988. He then became the president of the National Geographic Education Foundation. “Lloyd Elliott was a nationally recognized educational leader,” says University […]
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The coastal Penobscot Bay Pilot reported on the “Grow It Right” initiative, through which University of Maine Cooperative Extension is selling blueberry and asparagus plants to benefit its Master Gardener Volunteers and community horticultural programs.
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Maine Public Broadcasting Network and the Bangor Daily News recently interviewed University of Maine geologist and research professor Ed Grew about his work studying rocks and minerals in remote parts of the world, including Antarctica and Russia. Grew has been recognized for his work with two newly discovered minerals, edgrewite and hydroxledgrewite, named in his […]
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An article in The Weekly, a supplement to the Bangor Daily News, included comments from several University of Maine School of Nursing students and a faculty member who are raising money for a March trip to the country of Belize in Central American to provide health care services to underprivileged families.
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