Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News includes an op-ed column by Alan Cobo-Lewis of the UMaine psychology faculty. In the column, Cobo-Lewis expresses concern about two provisions of Maine’s supplemental budget bill, both of which relate to Child Development Services. CDS, as Cobo-Lewis describes it in the column, “provides early intervention and early childhood special education to […]
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Comments from Sen. Susan Collins are featured in a Friday Bangor Daily News story about the continuing growth of Orono Spectral Solutions (OSS), a high-tech business started by UMaine chemistry professor Carl Tripp. OSS hosted Collins and others on Thursday at the opening of its new and expanded facility in Bangor. Incorporated in 2004, OSS […]
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ORONO — LCRD Gregory Hall, a chemistry professor at the U.S. Coast Guard Acadamy, will visit the University of Maine for a Thursday Jan. 27 Dept. of Chemistry colloquium, “Chemical Issues in Oil Spill Response and Forensics.” His presentation is scheduled for 428 Aubert Hall at 11 a.m.
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Discovery News, the website of television’s Discovery Channel, wrote about a UMaine graduate student’s discovery of the oldest domesticated dog in the Americas, a find based on bone fragments the student discovered a human paleofecal sample. The New York Times also ran a story about the find, as did the Pakistan Daily Mail.
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Ramesh and Pushpa Gupta, professors in the University of Maine Department of Mathematics and Statistics, were invited to conduct a workshop on mixture models in statistics, organized and funded by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Malaya, December 28, 2010. Ramesh presented two one-hour lectures: “Frailty […]
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National Geographic magazine’s website has a story about the discovery of the oldest domestic dog in the Americans, which was made by Samuel Belknap, a UMaine graduate student. Belknap found a skull fragment from a dog in a human paleofecal sample, providing the earliest evidence of human consumption of dogs in the New World. More […]
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A Monday Bangor Daily News story profiles historian Trudy Irene Scee, who has written a new book, “City on the Penobscot: A Comprehensive History of Bangor, Maine.” The story notes that Scee moved to Maine from upstate New York to finish a doctorate in history. She also conducted some of the research for the book […]
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Comments from Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty are included in a Seacoast Online story about the first ten days of Gov. Paul LePage’s administration.
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WABI quoted Alan Davenport, the director of UMaine’s Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium, in a story about changes to the zodiac signs. The changes, discussion of which has lit up the Internet, have been going on for thousands of years due to basic shifts in Earth’s position.
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The website sify.com has a story about the discovery of the oldest identifiable domestic dog in the Americas made by UMaine graduate student Samuel Belknap.
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