The Maine Edge reported on a short film written and directed by Ryan Shelley, a graduate student in the Intermedia MFA program, that will be shown as part of the Maine Shorts series at the Maine International Film Festival. “Harvey’s Dream” is a 12-minute film based on the short story by Stephen King. The film […]
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Pankaj “Pank” Agrrawal, a finance professor at the University of Maine, was included in Business Insider Australia’s list of “17 finance professors preaching ETFs to their students.” The professors mentioned “are reshaping the curriculum, teaching extensively about exchange-traded funds, which, until recently, were rarely covered in the coursework of many major universities,” the article states. […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) spoke with female participants of a University of Maine summer soccer camp in Orono following Team USA’s recent win at the Women’s World Cup final in Vancouver, Canada. “I was so psyched. I’m Team America all the way,” said 13-year-old Delaney Labonte, who says she plays soccer because she enjoys putting in […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) and the Associated Press reported University of Maine marine scientist Heather Hamlin and colleagues discovered that certain plastic bags with FDA food-grade approval leach nonylphenol (NP) in concentrations that are highly toxic to fish. The researchers found one type of bag commonly used to transport fish home from pet stores released NP […]
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Paul Mayewski has been named one of the 50 bold visionaries defining the state in the July issue of Maine magazine. The director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine was included in the third annual list for his four decades of exploration aimed at understanding “why and how the climate is […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “How Maine showed marriage means the same to everyone,” by Amy Fried and Robert Glover, political science professors at the University of Maine and members of the Scholars Strategy Network. The piece originally appeared on Talking Points Memo.
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The Bangor Daily News mentioned the University of Maine’s Stormwater Management Research Team (SMART) Institute in an article about Paige Brown, a 16-year-old Bangor High School student and program participant. Brown also delivered the keynote address at the three-day program that focused on creating innovative solutions to environmental problems related to stormwater management. Brown is […]
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WABI (Channel 5) spoke with University of Maine history professor Liam Riordan for the report, “Separating Fourth of July fact from fiction.” Riordan said there are some “interesting wrinkles” about when we think about the start of the United States. He said the key vote by the Continental Congress to approve a resolution of independence […]
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Skylar Bayer, a graduate student at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, was a recent guest on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show, titled “The Art of Storytelling,” focused on what it takes to tell a good tale. Bayer studies scallop reproduction and the sustainability of the scallop fishery […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on current exhibitions at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. The exhibits, which run through Sept. 19, include Niho Kozuru’s “Inter/Dimension,” Anna Helper’s “Blind Spot,” and “With Ties to Maine,” a collection of Maine-related art celebrating the 150th anniversary of UMaine. Kozuru’s exhibit features vibrantly colored […]
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