The Bangor Daily News published a feature article on Diego Grossmann, a recent John Bapst Memorial High School graduate. Grossmann was accepted to Bowdoin College, but plans to take a year off between high school and college to volunteer abroad with World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, an organization that pairs volunteers with farms around […]
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Brewer was quoted in an article on Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee published by ArkansasOnline and the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. The article reported Huckabee sat out the four-day Road to Majority event attended by hundreds of conservative religious voters and nearly a dozen Republican presidential candidates in Washington. The event was held by the […]
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The Ellsworth American reported Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, is scheduled to speak at an educational event focused on the Arctic and climate change in Castine. The Maine Chapter of the Fulbright Association will host a morning of presentations on the Arctic, climate change and the Fulbright […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Portland Press Herald article “His own party agonizes as Gov. Paul LePage burns political capital.” Brewer said there is little doubt that LePage, a Republican, is alienating both parties, but he can claim responsibility in the budget process by driving […]
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Phys.org picked up two University of Maine releases about current research projects. “Hungry bluefin tuna in a sea of plenty,” focuses on a study led by Walter Golet, assistant research professor in the School of Marine Sciences and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. In a paper in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series, the […]
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The Bangor Daily News and WVII (Channel 7) covered the 21st annual Maine Child Welfare Conference held at the University of Maine. Judith Josiah-Martin, director of the Office of Multicultural Programs director and lecturer in the School of Social Work, was the keynote speaker at the event. Diversity should be embraced in order to provide […]
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PennLive cited a 2008 University of Maine study in the article “‘A culture problem, not a college problem’: The discussion on combating hazing continues.” The study, which was conducted by researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden, found 74 percent of students that experienced at least one hazing behavior were in varsity athletics, while 73 were […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on an Orono-based company founded by two University of Maine graduates that has been awarded $224,996 from the National Science Foundation. The grant will allow Revolution Research, Inc. to create a prototype for the first completely eco-friendly thermal insulation foam board. Nadir Yildirim, a graduate of UMaine’s innovation engineering program and […]
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Several recent University of Maine graduates who have turned to farming as a career were mentioned in the Bangor Daily News article, “Forward, not back: The odds are Millennial farmers will fail. Why they pursue the good life anyway.” Margaret McCollough, who graduated in May with a degree in sustainable agriculture, has since returned to […]
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The Darling Marine Center was mentioned in a Current Publishing article on the Freeport-based Coastal Studies for Girls. The program is a semester-long, or 16-week, science and leadership school for 10th grade girls located on Wolfe’s Neck Farm in Freeport, where students become immersed in a marine science-based curriculum, according to the article. Recent student […]
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