The Maine Public Broadcasting Network spoke with Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, for a report about the recent announcement that MaineToday Media’s current owner S. Donald Sussman plans to sell the company to Camden media executive Reade Brower. The union representing more than half of MaineToday […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on Maine Day, the University of Maine’s annual campuswide spring cleanup tradition. Throughout the day, UMaine community members completed service projects aimed at sprucing up campus, enjoyed a free barbecue, and competed for the oozeball — mud volleyball — championship. “We use the university grounds for everything, and we live here […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported a recent discovery of vernal pools near Lincoln Regional Airport threatens the town’s ability to develop an industrial zone outside of a local paper mill’s campus, according to officials. The town is paying students from the University of Maine’s School of Forest Resources about $1,050 to determine the environmental significance […]
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Times Higher Education of London recently published the column, “Worker bees are doing more for less of the honey,” by Deborah Rogers, an English professor at the University of Maine.
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The Portland Press Herald reported University of Maine Ph.D. student Nadir Yildirim and UMaine alumnus Alexander Chasse won the 2015 UMaine Business Challenge for their company that aims to develop forest-based, environmentally friendly materials for the construction, insulation and food-packaging industries. Yildirim, a student in the Wood Science and Technology Program in the School of […]
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David Fuller, an agricultural and non-timber forest products professional with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, wrote an article for the Bangor Daily News titled “How to identify, pick and cook fiddleheads — and when to leave them alone.” Fuller also will speak at the fourth annual Maine Fiddlehead Festival on May 2 at the […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the Maine Business School’s International Trade Fair held on campus. The fair offers an opportunity for students to learn about commerce around the world and explore business opportunities abroad, according to the report. “It’s interactive,” said UMaine sophomore Tim King. “This whole project we had to go and figure out […]
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Lenard Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging and professor in the UMaine School of Social Work, wrote an opinion piece published by the Bangor Daily News about Maine’s older adults and their family caregivers. Kaye is a member of the Maine chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars […]
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James Fastook, a computer science professor at the University of Maine, and several students in his video game design course spoke with WVII (Channel 7) for a report about the class. “I’m continually overwhelmed by the amount of work they put into this,” Fastook said. “This has been the most fun class I’ve ever taught […]
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A 2005 book on term limits written by three one-time University of Maine professors was cited in the Bangor Daily News editorial “Term limits have changed Maine Legislature — for the worse.” The book, “Changing Members: The Maine Legislature in the Era of Term Limits,” was written by Kenneth Palmer, a professor emeritus of political […]
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