UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for an Associated Press report, which appeared on the Boston Globe website, about the gambling proposals on Tuesday’s ballot. Brewer told the AP some voters might be weary of seeing casino proposals in election after election but the geographic scope of the proposals and their potential impact on […]
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Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty was interviewed for a Seacoast Online story looking ahead to Tuesday’s statewide election. Brewer thinks turnout could be as high as 35 percent, due in part to significant television advertising related to the referendum questions. He also commented in a Lewiston Sun Journal story looking at the […]
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UMaine anthropologist Dan Sandweiss was quoted extensively in an Oct. 21 story in Science, looking at new evidence suggesting a human presence in the Americas 13,800 years ago. That date precedes the Clovis culture, long believed to be the New World’s first, by almost 1,000 years. The new findings, developed by a group led by […]
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Karen Hutchins, a University of Maine Ph.D. candidate in Communication and Journalism and a graduate research assistant for Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative, was recognized by the National Science Foundation for her research poster on partnerships between universities and municipalities. That recognition came at NSF’s National EPSCoR Conference in October.
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The Weekly section of the Bangor Daily News carried a feature story about retired UMaine math professor Phil Locke, who has received a WLBZ “2 Those Who Care” John W. Coombs award for his community service work. Locke spends his time now as an English language teacher for Literacy Volunteers of Bangor, helping with Orono […]
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Dean Jeffrey Hecker has announced the recipients of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Fellowships for 2011-12. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research and creative activity.
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The mid-coast news organization Village Soup reported on the Maine Song and Story Sampler from the Maine Folklife Center. That Web site, with associated lesson plans for K-12 teachers, was created by Folklife Center director Pauleena MacDougall and history graduate student Josh Paradis. The site features video and audio files depicting songs and stories, along […]
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The Maine Chinese Conference, held last week in Bangor, featured two speakers from UMaine, according to a Bangor Daily News report. Jeff Hecker, dean of UMaine’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and UMaine modern languages Professor Ray Pelletier, both spoke at the conference, which aims to promote educational and business relationships between Maine and […]
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Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — A Portland artist will install a glass sculpture in front of Aubert Hall at the University of Maine Saturday, Oct. 29, a “Percent for Art” project included as part of the Aubert renovations.
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A Maine Public Broadcasting Network radio report on the problems of prescription drug abuse in Maine included comments from Marcella Sorg, a forensic anthropologist in UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center who researches issues related to substance abuse. Sorg told MPBN the state must do a better job educating patients about the risks posed by […]
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