A breakdown of the University of Maine’s cost of attendance — tuition and fees — was featured in a Boston Globe opinion piece on rising tuition at the University of Massachusetts. At UMass, tuition is kept “ridiculously low while fees are piled high like pancakes on a freshman’s plate,” according to the article. At the […]
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The Portland Phoenix spoke with Steve Barkan, a criminologist and professor of sociology at the University of Maine, for an article about crime trends in Maine. State data revealed that crime decreased 9.1 percent overall in 2013 — the largest decrease in 20 years, according to the article. However, a recent increase in murders, armed […]
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Research being conducted at the University of Maine was mentioned in the Ozy article, “Lost? Send in drones and robots.” Today, search-and-rescue operators — first responders, law enforcement and even volunteers — are using drones and robots to locate individuals more accurately and efficiently than ever before, according to the article. At UMaine, students are […]
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Jon Ippolito, a new media professor at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Maine Calling” radio program. The show, titled “Raising kids in the digital age,” focused on the positive and negative effects of digital culture and screen time on children.
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Noodls published a University of Maine profile on Heather Leslie, the new director of the Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Leslie is a marine scientist with expertise in coastal marine ecology; human-environment interactions, particularly those related to coastal marine fisheries; the design and evaluation of marine management strategies; and the translation of knowledge to inform […]
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Noodls published a University of Maine profile on Heather Leslie, the new director of the Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Leslie is a marine scientist with expertise in coastal marine ecology; human-environment interactions, particularly those related to coastal marine fisheries; the design and evaluation of marine management strategies; and the translation of knowledge to inform […]
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A 1996 University of Maine study on water quality was mentioned in the Morning Sentinel article, “Belgrade Lakes water quality could dive in a decade.” A recent analysis of 40 years of water tests indicates that water quality on the lakes is on a downward trend, and if not reversed, could lead to serious water […]
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John Bear Mitchell, Wabanaki Center Outreach and Student Development Coordinator at the University of Maine and University of Maine System Native American Waiver Coordinator, was quoted in a Morning Sentinel article about Wabanaki representatives planning to protest the American Indian sports mascot of Skowhegan schools. A rally representing the four tribes of Maine’s Wabanaki federation […]
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Nicholas Giudice, a professor in the School of Computing and Information Science who directs the Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory at the University of Maine, and Richard Corey, the lab’s director of operations, spoke about the lab with Portland Monthly for an article about the variety of innovation in Maine. VEMI is one […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Portland Press Herald reported University of Maine head softball coach Lynn Coutts has been promoted to senior associate director of athletics, and Mike Coutts, the associate head coach of softball, has been named head coach. Lynn Coutts, a former Black Bear star player, was named softball coach in 2010. In […]
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