The Maine Monitor cited a study titled “The Cost of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in Maine, 2010” co-authored by Marcella Sorg, a forensic anthropologist and a University of Maine research professor at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. The Portland Press Herald shared the article from The Maine Monitor.
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KSNT (Channel 27 in Topeka, Kansas) and WIBW (Channel 13 in Topeka, Kansas) reported on a University of Maine-led effort to develop an interactive digital tool that will allow users to explore and analyze data on sites and sources of PFAS contamination throughout the U.S.
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Bonnie Newsom, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maine, spoke with ProPublica for an article titled “Tribes in Maine Spent Decades Fighting to Rebury Ancestral Remains. Harvard Resisted Them at Nearly Every Turn.” The Maine Monitor, Maine Public and the Bangor Daily News shared the ProPublica report.
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University of Maine astrophysicist Neil Comins was quoted in a Discover Magazine article about how life on Earth would be different if it had two moons. In 2010, Comins published a book titled “What If the Earth Had Two Moons?: And Nine Other Thought-Provoking Speculations on the Solar System.”
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The Bangor Daily News promoted the 2023 Wabanaki Winter Market, which will be held from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 9 at the University of Maine Collins Center for the Arts.
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The Bangor Daily News published an op-ed by Robert Glover, University of Maine associate professor of political science and honors, and Karyn Sporer, associate professor of sociology, titled “Mainers support decriminalization and public health approaches to overdose crisis.” Sporer and Glover are co-leaders and members of the Maine chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network, which […]
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Sharon Barker, a long-time University of Maine employee and tireless advocate for Maine women and girls, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, Nov. 20. Barker became the first director of the UMaine Women’s Resource Center, now called the Intersectional Feminist Resource Center, in 1991. In that role, which she held until her retirement in 2014, Barker […]
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The largest holiday gathering of Wabanaki artists in New England will return with one-of-a-kind pieces, including some from new and nationally-acclaimed basket weavers, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 9, at the University of Maine Collins Center for the Arts. During the 29th annual Wabanaki Winter Market, dozens of Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Maliseet and Mi’kmaq artists […]
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The University of Maine has once again been ranked among the best higher education institutions nationwide in multiple annual college guides. In the U.S. News and World Report 2024 Best Colleges, UMaine was featured in a list of top National Universities — those producing groundbreaking research and offering a full range of undergraduate, master’s and […]
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News Center Maine interviewed University of Maine computer scientist Torsten Hahmann and Ph.D. student Katria Schwiekert about their efforts to develop an interactive digital tool that will allow users to explore and analyze data on sites and sources of PFAS contamination throughout the U.S. “We don’t want to reproduce all that data. We want to […]
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