The Kennebec Journal and Bangor Daily News reported on the Camden International Film Festival’s (CIFF) Aging in Maine documentary screening tour that launches March 18 at the University of Maine. The UMaine screening will be presented in partnership with the UMaine Center on Aging. The tour features a number of acclaimed films from CIFF, and […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried an op-ed coauthored by University of Maine student Samantha Perez. She and other members of Divest UMaine have encouraged the Investment Committee of the University of Maine System Board of Trustees to stop investing endowment funds in the fossil fuel industry.
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The Bangor Daily News March 14 editorial “Maine’s lobster industry might not last forever. Then what?” quoted two University of Maine faculty members. Rick Wahle, a research professor at the School of Marine Sciences, cited the movement of lobster postlarvae from more southern waters to Down East as evidence of warming ocean temperatures. Andrew Pershing, […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on wood science professor Robert Rice’s efforts to assist Maine Heritage Timber Co. with its production of specialty lumber from timber submerged since the early 1800s in Millinocket’s Quakish Lake. In “UMaine professor helps business take wood from bottom of lake to the showroom,” Rice highlights UMaine’s mission to serve […]
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The Portland Press Herald reviewed the University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA) installation of Kenny Cole’s “Parabellum (Prepare for War).” Reviewer Daniel Kany said the exhibit that uses a fictional Civil War veteran to inspire questions about war in America is “a genuine and humble dedication to wanting what is right and good for […]
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The Portland Press Herald spoke with University of Maine athletic director Karlton Creech about men’s basketball coach Ted Woodward, who has two years remaining on his contract. Creech said he had not yet met with Woodward for an end-of-the-season evaluation. Creech praised the team, which compiled a 6–23 record, for playing hard despite the mounting […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, Washington Post, WABI-TV, WFLX, and WMTW were among the media organizations reporting that former University of Maine student-athlete Zedric Joseph was being held in connection with a March 7 double stabbing that killed a man and injured a woman in West Palm Beach, Fla.
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James Warhola, a political science professor and chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Maine, was a guest on an episode of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on the ongoing situation in Ukraine.
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The Weekly spoke with Alan Davenport, director of Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium at the University of Maine, about the university’s new Emera Astronomy Center that is slated to open this fall. The $5.2 million astronomy center will be the new home of the Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium and Observatory. The center will feature a planetarium […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, for the article “Scientist: Odd-looking Maine lobsters are not mutants, and still safe to eat.” Bayer spoke about lobsters found in the Gulf of Maine with unusual colors, extra sets of claws or pockmarked shells, and […]
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