When planning a trip, travelers often consider their destinations’ peak tourist seasons and weather. Rhian Waller schedules her voyages around whale migration, glacial melting and ocean clarity. This spring, the associate research professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences will be chief scientist on an expedition to explore, map and survey underwater […]
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The Portland Press Herald, WLBZ (Channel 2), WMTW (Channel 8) and The Forecaster covered a ceremony held at the University of Maine’s Regional Learning Center at Tidewater Farm in Falmouth to award Howard Reiche Jr. with a master’s degree he started in 1950. After graduating from Bowdoin College, Reiche enrolled at UMaine to pursue a […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot reported students from six coastal and island high schools gathered on Hurricane Island in Penobscot Bay for the second year of the Eastern Maine Skippers Program and its collaborative, yearlong project addressing the question, “How can the impact of the green crab population be controlled in a way that conserves the […]
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The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a four-year, $1.4 million grant to the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine to support a National Resource Center (NRC) on Canada and provide Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for graduate students studying North American French. The Canadian-American Center will use the NRC funds to […]
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A survey designed and analyzed by Sandra Butler, professor in the University of Maine School of Social Work, was referenced in the Bangor Daily News story “Study reveals most Mainers agree poverty caused by outside forces, not personal decisions.” The report from the 2014 survey is titled “Maine People Agree Opportunity is the Bridge to […]
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The research of Kurt Rademaker, a University of Maine visiting assistant professor in anthropology and alumnus (Ph.D. 2012), is profiled in the Oct. 1 issue of the international weekly journal Nature. The story’s author, Barbara Fraser, accompanied Rademaker and his research team on a recent expedition high in the Peruvian Andes. In recent years, Rademaker’s […]
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Six years ago, Howard Reiche Jr. started “putting things away” that he felt he could “do without” in order to devote as much time as possible to other more pressing family commitments, including caring for his beloved wife, Stevie. About six months ago, shortly after his 85th birthday, he renewed his focus on some longstanding […]
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network will air a talk given by Robert Ford, former U.S. Ambassador to Syria at 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25 as part of its “Speaking in Maine” public affairs lecture series. Ford spoke at the University of Maine earlier this week, hours before airstrikes were initiated in Syria against ISIS. During […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on a Middle East course taught by Seth Singleton, a professor of international affairs and political science at the University of Maine. The current conflict in Syria has become a topic of discussion in the class, according to the report. “The whole Middle East is in tumult, it’s in the middle […]
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WVII (Channel 7) and WABI (Channel 5) reported on a talk given by Robert Ford, a former U.S. ambassador to Syria, in the Buchanan Alumni House at the University of Maine. Ford, who held the position from 2011 until earlier this year and served 30 years in the U.S. Department of State and Peace Corps, […]
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