An Associated Press article in the Bangor Daily News and a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report included comments from University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer about the possible effects on Maine’s Republican Senate candidates that the weekend’s GOP convention had when activists for presidential candidates Ron Paul and Mitt Romney took center stage. Maine […]
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Jon Ippolito, a member of the UMaine new media faculty, was interviewed for a recent Channel 7 (WVII) news report on a patent Nokia has obtained for a vibrating tattoo to silently alert cell phone users to phone calls or messages. Ippolito discusses the desire for many people today to remain connected to communications technologies […]
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UMaine historian Howard Segal was quoted in an article in the Bangor Daily News about certain hiring practices of the University of Maine System. The article probed the hiring of seven upper-level UMaine System employees, including Elaine Clark, former UMaine executive director for facilities and real estate. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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The Sci-Tech.com website posted a USA Today article about an increase in opiate-addicted infants born to addicted mothers, and the potential consequences. The article included comments from University of Maine psychology professor Marie Hayes, a research authority in that field. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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In a Columbia Journalism Review column, Justin Martin, a UMaine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences-Honors College preceptor of journalism, writes that news organizations often overstate the size of their foreign bureaus. Martin believes the use of the word bureau to describe a single correspondent in a particular city is meant to trick audiences into […]
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University of Maine professor of psychology Marie Hayes, an expert in perinatal and neonatal drug addition and infant withdrawal, was interviewed for several extensive articles on the increasing number of opiate-addicted infants born to addicted mothers.
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Seacoastonline.com in southern Maine carried an article about UMaine music major Kayla Peard of York, Maine, who will graduate May 5 as salutatorian of her class. A member of the UMaine Honors College, Peard has a 4.0 GPA. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Rachel Binder-Hathaway of Millinocket has been named the valedictorian of the University of Maine Class of 2012. Kayla Peard of York is the salutatorian. Both will be honored during UMaine’s 210th Commencement slated for May 5 at Harold Alfond Sports Arena.
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The Bangor Daily News advanced Saturday’s Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium teachers’ workshop, which was held at UMaine in the Donald P. Corbett building and also in the UMaine art department’s sculpture workshop. Daniel Lux, a faculty member in the UMaine Department of Earth Sciences, was also noted as being scheduled to give a talk on […]
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University of Maine political science faculty member Mark Brewer was interviewed by Maine Public Broadcasting Network for a perspective report and profile of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Charlie Summers. Brewer says Summers, who currently is Maine’s Secretary of State, may garner support from Republicans who like his stance on voter registration and alleged voter fraud. […]
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