A University of Maine marine geologist and Ph.D. student will participate in the first webinar of the Bangor Daily News Climate Conversation series at 4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. “BDN Climate Conversations: Coastal Resilience and Sea Level Rise,” will feature Joseph Kelley, a professor of marine geology with the School of Earth and Climate Sciences […]
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The University of Maine McGillicuddy Humanities Center will offer a virtual workshop about applying for grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25. Mark Silver, senior program officer in the NEH Division of Research Programs, will lead the free, public workshop. Advance registration is required. Space […]
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Talking Points Memo (TPM) published Amy Fried’s analysis of the impact of ranked-choice voting on the U.S. Senate contest. The professor and chair of the Political Science Department explained how instant runoff voting and a ballot with more than two candidates could impact the outcome of the U.S. Senate race in Maine. If no candidate […]
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The Nikkei Asian Review interviewed Ngo Vinh Long, professor of Asian History at the University of Maine, for the article titled “Vietnam rushes to repatriate COVID-infected workers.” Vietnam, which is smaller than California with more than twice the population, serves as an early success story for containing COVID-19. Long said the country logged just over […]
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Two University of Maine researchers will use artificial intelligence-aided design to develop new materials for improved batteries and supercapacitors. The research initiative led by Liping Yu, assistant professor of physics, and Yingchao Yang, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, “Artificial-Intelligence Aided Design and Synthesis of Novel Layered 2D Multi-Principal Element Materials for Energy Storage,” is one […]
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Sociology professor Steven Barkan penned a guest column about the Affordable Care Act that ran in the Bangor Daily News and the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. “The repeal of Obamacare will not make America great again,” wrote Barkan. “Instead it will once more put us at the mercy of insurance companies, and it will worsen many […]
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Author Jenny Milchman told The Lincoln County News that she read James Acheson’s book “The Lobster Gangs of Maine” and talked with him for background research for her novel “The Second Mother.” Acheson is a research professor of anthropology. Milchman’s suspenseful mystery, which will be released Aug. 18, is set on a fictional Maine island. […]
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The Bangor Daily News, the Associated Press, WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland), WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle) and the VillageSoup advanced a drug death report compiled by Marcella Sorg, a research professor at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine. The report, which the Maine Office of the Attorney General […]
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University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy has appointed a 30-member Council on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to advise campus leadership and report on institutional efforts and actions to ensure inclusive excellence. The President’s Council on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is co-chaired by Kimberly Whitehead, chief of staff to the President, and Susan McKay, founding director […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Janina Deisenrieder and Raj Anupam, both international graduate students from the University of Maine, about the federal government rescinding new regulations from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that affected international students. The rules, before being withdrawn Tuesday, required international students to take in-person classes in the fall 2020 semester […]
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