Socioeconomic status and racism are fundamental causes of violent and property crime, according to a University of Maine professor and an alumnus, who argue the factors must be considered in order to drastically reduce street criminality. Steven Barkan, a UMaine sociology professor, and alumnus Michael Rocque, now a sociology professor at Bates College, recently published […]
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Rob Wheeler is engrossed with a generally harmless fungus that naturally lives in and on people, but also can cause disease and death. For 16 years, the University of Maine associate professor of microbiology has been unraveling the mysteries of the fungus Candida albicans. The National Institutes of Health recently awarded Wheeler a three-year $428,429 […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported that Marina Gray, a sergeant in the Army National Guard and a University of Maine alumna, made it to the top 10 in the Miss USA pageant. Gray, a Portland native, was named Miss Maine USA and represented the state in the national competition on May 21 in Shreveport, Louisiana, […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on the University of Maine Alumni Association’s annual awards dinner. The event was held to acknowledge UMaine alumni and friends for outstanding public service and professional accomplishments, WABI reported. Among the eight Alumni Achievement Award winners, were U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and her family, who received the […]
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University of Maine faculty and graduate students will present wide-ranging research at the 26th annual Harold W. Borns Jr. Symposium that sheds light on how climate change affects the state and its residents. Topics of the emerging climate change studies include whether a temperature-related increase in toxic algal blooms could increase the prevalence of a […]
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The most recent issue of Chebacco, the annual magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, features the work of several University of Maine faculty members and alumni. Titled “Beholding the Past,” the issue features the work of Joseph Miller, Ph.D. candidate in Canadian/American history and assistant professor of military science; Rachel Snell, adjunct instructor […]
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University of Maine divers Colby Johns, Elisabeth Maxwell and Hattie Train went face-to-fin with enormous whale sharks, rare bowmouth guitarfish, reef sharks, a sawshark, manta rays, wobbegongs and other fish from three oceans at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. The American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) scientific divers did so in February in the aquarium’s […]
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Iva Jugovic started her academic journey at the University of Maine in 2011. At the age of 19, she traveled 4,000 miles across the Atlantic, from her hometown Leskovac, Serbia to Orono, Maine to pursue her undergraduate studies. The recipient of a full-tuition scholarship to UMaine, Jugovic quickly took an interest in the health-related sciences […]
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Simply Straws wants to make the world a better place, sip by sip, with eco-friendly glass straws. And the University of Maine is taking part in the company’s #PledgeAgainstPlasticStraws 2018 Campus Challenge. Throughout the month of April, campuses nationwide are invited to ditch plastic straws to reduce plastic pollution. It’s estimated in the U.S. that […]
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The Cape Cod Times announced Allen and Patricia Morell of Centerville, Massachusetts will receive the Bernard Lown ’42 Alumni Humanitarian Award from the University of Maine Alumni Association for their lifetime of service to others. The couple, both 1973 graduates, have devoted themselves to improving the lives of impoverished children at the Child Rescue Centre, […]
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