AACSB International has extended accreditation for the Maine Business School at the University of Maine through the 2023–24 academic year. The Maine Business School has been accredited by AACSB since 1974. “It is exciting to see this extension of the gold standard of business education accreditation,” says Faye Gilbert, dean of the Undergraduate School of […]
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A number of media outlets reported that University of Maine basketball standouts Amy Vachon ’00 and Andy Bedard ’00 will be inducted in the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame with the Class of 2020. This is the first year they were eligible for consideration. Vachon and Bedard starred on the court for the Black Bears; […]
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The Portland Press Herald featured Steve Norton, whose sound installation at Fields Pond Audubon Center in Holden features recorded sounds of 12 recently extinct birds and amphibians. The jazz musician created “Requiem” in 2018 as he pursued a Masters of Fine Arts degree at the University of Maine. All 12 species went extinct in the […]
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Jacquelyn Gill’s “Warm Regards” was one of five nominees for “Best Green Podcast” at the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards 2020 on Friday, Jan. 17 in Los Angeles. And the University of Maine paleoecologist expects this coming season’s podcast will be even better. When the podcast began in 2016, it was the only one about climate change. […]
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Darling Marine Center researcher Kara Pellowe and colleagues found very few clams of commercial size (2 inches or larger) last summer in any of the intertidal flats managed by the towns of Damariscotta and Newcastle. Their discovery came during a collaborative project in which they counted shellfish (soft-shell clams, quahogs, razor clams, mussels and oysters) […]
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Regulations and financial resources that influence how people fish have as great an effect on how they deal with change as where and how they fish, found University of Maine Darling Marine Center researchers Kara Pellowe and Heather Leslie. The ecologists examined how fishermen adapt to environmental and economic change in Baja California Sur, Mexico. […]
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The Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News, News Center Maine and WABI (Channel 5) reported on the death of Chuck Peddle, a 1959 graduate of the University of Maine’s engineering program whose 1975 invention of a microprocessor paved the way for the era of personal computing. Peddle died Dec. 15 at the age of 82 at […]
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A groundbreaking study shows that a warming planet will make dust storms more intense in the Mediterranean. Using the highest-resolution continuous climate record ever published, the study explains the connections between dust storms, extended periods of drought, volcanoes and warming in the Mediterranean, Europe and Asia. These ultrahigh-resolution records revealed stronger Saharan dust storms during […]
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Three University of Maine Climate Change Institute scientists are part of a Princeton University-led team that analyzed 2 million-year-old ice cores from Antarctica to provide the first direct observations of Earth’s climate when furred early ancestors of modern humans still roamed. CCI associate professor Andrei Kurbatov, director Paul Mayewski, and doctoral student Heather Clifford participated […]
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Barry Dana and Peter Neptune will demonstrate Wabanaki traditions at the Maine Indian Basketmakers Holiday Market on Saturday, Dec. 14 at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. Both men have participated in the annual public event — a collaboration with the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance — since its inception 25 […]
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