Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News included a guest column by Robert Ferguson, a local clinical psychologist who also serves as a clinical associate in UMaine’s psychology department. The column, “Treating chronic pain beyond medicine,” analyzes issues related to prescription medicine addictions in Maine. In his UMaine role, Ferguson supervises students and collaborates with faculty members.
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Contact: David Whitehill, (207) 992-3511 or david@bangorsymphony.org Four University of Maine music students will have the opportunity to participate in a master class with award-winning pianist Martina Filjak from 10 a.m. to noon Friday, January 14, in UMaine’s Minsky Recital Hall. Each student will have an opportunity to play for Filjak, the winner of the […]
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UMaine researcher Jessica Fales’ report linking teen dating and depression was referenced on the blog thehairpin.com.
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A UMaine graduate student’s discovery of the oldest domesticated dog ever found in the Americas was mentioned on the website Physorg.com. Samuel Belknap, a student in the department of anthropology and Climate Change Institute, found a fragment of bone from the skull of a dog. The bone was directed dated at 9,400 years old.
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The Frisky, a love and relationships blog, wrote about UMaine researcher Jessica Fales’ study linking depression with teen dating. Fales found adolescents and young adults who excessively seek reassurance in their romantic relationships are at an increased risk for depression.
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Contact: Samuel Belknap, Samuel.Belknap@umit.maine.edu A University of Maine graduate student has discovered evidence of the oldest identifiable domestic dog in the Americas. Samuel Belknap III, a graduate research assistant working under the direction of Kristin Sobolik in UMaine’s Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute, found a 9,400-year-old skull fragment of a domestic dog during […]
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C. Stewart Doty, UMaine professor emeritus of history, recently published The Journal of Ann McMath: An Orphan in a New York Parsonage in the 1850s, a 256-page text expected to be of particular interest to historians, genealogists and anyone interested in the lives of ordinary people during the nineteenth century. Doty, coauthor of at least […]
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Bangor-based WLBZ reports on work in the lab of UMaine professors Ray Fort and Barbara Cole to extract a starter molecule of antiflu drug Tamiflu from pine needles and other conifer trees.
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Gregorio Fuentes, a member of the UMaine mathematics faculty for 22 years beginning in 1967, died on Wednesday Jan. 5 at his Orono home. He was 86 years old. Fuentes, who was born in Spain, is survived by his wife Maria — a UMaine part-time faculty member in Spanish — and four children. He was […]
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The website Physorg.com posted information about a UMaine study that finds warning signs of depression in young romance. UMaine Doctoral Research Fellow Jessica Fales says adolescents and young adults who excessively seek reassurance in their romantic relationships are at an increased risk for depression.
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