Life gets off to a rough start for babies born to drug-dependent women, even when their mothers’ addiction is clinically managed during pregnancy with methadone or other therapeutic replacement drugs. Born with their own chemical dependency, approximately 70 percent of these babies spend weeks in intensive care being treated for a cluster of unpleasant and […]
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Several news organizations, including Channel 5 (WABI), Channel 2 (WLBZ) and the Bangor Daily News, reported Thursday on a bomb threat hoax emailed to an Aubert Hall employee. Students and staff were evacuated while public safety officials searched the building before allowing Aubert Hall to be reoccupied. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Two University of Maine faculty members have been selected for awards of excellence for recent textbooks. Steven Hornsby, director of the University of Maine Canadian-American Center and professor of geography and Canadian studies, has received the Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation’s Publication of the Year Award for his 2011 book “Surveyors of Empire: […]
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed by U.S. News and World Report for a story about Angus King’s chances to win the U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by the retiring Olympia Snowe. Brewer said King, the former Maine governor, is the current front-runner. The story also appeared in the Chicago Tribune. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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A column by Justin Martin, a UMaine CLAS-Honors preceptor of journalism, about news organizations’ online sharing practices was posted on the Columbia Journalism Review website. Martin wrote that news organizations typically must share some free content in order to maximize online advertising and make paywalls most effective, but too many influential news organizations never properly […]
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Herbert Maccoby, former professor and chair of the University of Maine Department of Sociology from 1971 to 1985, died Feb. 26, 2012, in Oakland, Calif. He was 89 years old.
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A Bangor Daily News report on drug running along the I-95 corridor noted studies of drug-related mortality patterns in Maine done by Marcella Sorg, a UMaine forensic anthropologist who is also the state’s anthropologist and works in the state medical examiner’s office. Sorg told the BDN Friday that oxycodone, methadone and benzodiazepines are the primary […]
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UMaine psychology faculty member Cynthia Erdley was mentioned in a Fox News story about a teen-produced radio show that documents the effects of bullying. In an interview on the radio show, Erdley said bullies often act out to elevate their own social status. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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Pauleena MacDougall, director of the Maine Folklife Center at UMaine, was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News story about a study on regional vernacular by the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which includes some Maine expressions included in the “Dictionary of American Regional English.” MacDougall noted that a book on Maine vernacular by former University of […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at UMaine, commented in the New York Times political blog The Caucus about Maine’s U.S. Senate race. Brewer said Democrat U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, who has announced she will not run for Senate, likely bowed out of the race because her House seat was going to be safe for […]
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