UMaine News

University of Maine astronomer and professor of physics Neil Comins was interviewed for a Channel 2 (WLBZ) news report Thursday on the privatization of space travel as a trend of the future. Thursday’s successful splashdown of the privately owned commercial spacecraft, Dragon, after resupplying the International Space Station, was the inaugural sign of what’s to […]

University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed by the Portland Press Herald for the MaineToday Media group report about the U.S. Senate candidacy of former Secretary of State Matt Dunlap of Old Town. Brewer said Dunlap’s personal history and performance as a member of the Maine House of Representatives brings genuine legitimacy to […]

News organizations throughout Maine continued their coverage of the death May 28 of 2008 University of Maine graduate and Army Capt. John “Jay” Brainard III of Newport, who died in Afghanistan when the helicopter he was piloting crashed. University of Maine political science professor James Warhola was interviewed by Channel 7 (WVII) and former UMaine […]

Comments from UMaine political science professor emeritus Kenneth Palmer were included in a Kennebec Journal article about former Gov. Angus King’s participation in the U.S. Senate race in Maine. Palmer said considering the amount of money that will likely be spent on the election, particularly by the GOP, King will not have an easy time […]

Jonathan Farley, associate professor of computing and information science and associate professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Maine, has been profiled in anew book, In Praise of Jamaica: Natural Wonders, Heroes and Achievements by George Meikle. On a website associated with the book, Farley is listed with “50 Jamaican Trailblazers,”, which includes Harry […]

The Portland Press Herald interviewed University of Maine political science professor James Warhola and former UMaine Army ROTC enrollment officer Darryl Lyon about 2008 University of Maine graduate and Army Capt. John “Jay” Brainard III of Newport, who died in Afghanistan on Monday when the helicopter he was piloting crashed. Several other news organizations reported […]

University of Maine political scientist Amy Fried was a guest Thursday on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network call-in program Maine Calling on civility and politics, with former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell and Jeffrey Selinger, a Bowdoin College government professor. Fried observed that the unprecedented incivility in national politics is reflected in Maine politics, but to […]