The Portland Press Herald interviewed Mark Brewer, professor and chair of the University of Maine Political Science Department, about the decline in absentee voting from last year to this year. According to the Press Herald, “just over 53,000 of the state’s more than 1.3 million registered voters have so far returned their absentee ballots,” despite […]
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Since its first recorded sighting by European explorers in the 1600s, scientists and historians have believed that Europeans were the first people to ever set foot on the Falkland Islands. Findings from a new University of Maine-led study, however, suggests otherwise; that human activity on the islands predates European arrival by centuries. Kit Hamley, National […]
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As the United Nations prepares to kick off its annual Climate Change Conference of the Parties next week, students in a political science class at the University of Maine will debate international climate action tomorrow as part of a semester-long simulation of U.N. negotiations. Their debate on international climate action will be held at 3:30 […]
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The Associated Press interviewed University of Maine political science professor Mark Brewer about Question 3 on the Nov. 2 election referendum ballot. The question asks voters “Do you favor amending the Constitution of Maine to declare that all individuals have a natural, inherent and unalienable right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food […]
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The Piscataquis Observer cited information from the Maine Drug Data Hub — a tool created through a partnership between the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future, the Office of the Attorney General, the University of Maine and several state agencies — in an article about the Recovery Cafe offered by Central Hall Commons. […]
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Researchers have made a significant advance in surface science, introducing a new active mechanism of adsorption based on rotaxane molecules with pumping cassettes attached on a surface, according to a new study in the journal Science. University of Maine professor R. Dean Astumian, a theorist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is an author […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a new sculpture for Webster Park in Orono developed by University of Maine faculty, one staff member and a recent graduate to get more people interested in math. SunRule, according to the BDN, “is interactive and allows users to visualize multiplication and division using the rays of the sun.” […]
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Spectrum News reported on a report from the Margaret Chase Policy Center at the University of Maine about the impact of Maine’s forest products industry. According to the report, as cited in the Spectrum news story, the industry yielded “more than $8 billion in economic impacts and nearly 32,000 associated jobs in 2019.” The state […]
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The Maine Edge reviewed “Anon(ymous)” a multinational, multimedia production from the University of Maine School of Performing Arts in partnership with Presidency College in Kolkata, India. Tickets for the shows tonight, Friday, Saturday and Sunday are available for purchase online.
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Ngo Vinh Long, a professor of Asian history with the University of Maine, spoke to Nikkei Asia about China donating 5.7 million doses of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine to Vietnam. “With its vaccine diplomacy, Beijing has been trying to exert its soft power in the face of widespread reactions to [the Chinese] administration’s wolf warrior […]
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