WABI (Channel 5) reported on a meeting of pro-choice students at the University of Maine. The group met in an effort to combat the stigma surrounding abortion care by taking part in the national 1-in-3 Campaign. According to a group supporting sexual health, one in three women living in the United State will have an […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on a more than $735,000 National Science Foundation grant awarded to the University of Maine to aid in the education of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at several Maine high schools, including Bangor High School. Over the next three years, students and teachers will work with the university on a […]
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David Yarborough, a wild blueberry specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with The Ellsworth American about the demand for blueberries. Yarborough said frost early in the growing season in Quebec reduced by half the province’s blueberry harvest. He said a smaller harvest in Canada will result in more demand for Maine’s wild […]
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Michael Socolow, an associate professor in the Communication and Journalism Department at the University of Maine, was interviewed on an installment of the SETI Institute’s “Big Picture Science” radio show titled “Skeptic Check: War of the Worlds.” Socolow spoke about his research on media coverage surrounding Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast of “War of the […]
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Gov. Paul LePage spoke about the University of Maine and its proposed offshore wind pilot project for an in-depth article on the governor by the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. LePage, who is a UMaine alumnus, called the land grant university a “pretty good organization” and spoke about his preference for the institution over […]
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The Weekly previewed the Oct. 27 performance by the University of Maine Symphonic Band and the UMaine Jazz Ensemble at the Collins Center for the Arts. The 45-member Symphonic Band, under the direction of Christopher White, will play pieces by Gustav Theodore Holst, Toshio Iwai, John Philip Sousa, Eric Whitacre and François-Joseph Gossec. The Jazz […]
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Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine, spoke with Engineering News Record about efforts by the UMaine-led DeepCwind Consortium to build a 12-MW offshore wind farm in the Gulf of Maine by 2017. Dagher, leader of the consortium, said VolturnUS 1:8, the floating test turbine the group […]
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Rachel Lasley Rasher, a biologist at the University of Maine’s Marine Darling Center, was interviewed for a Living on Earth segment titled “Copepod Love.” Rasher spoke about how the tiny crustaceans track down suitable mates for the report by Public Radio International’s environmental news magazine.
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Amy Blackstone, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maine, was interviewed for the Dame Magazine article “Ticking clock: What’s true (and false) about female fertility?” Blackstone said the most common myth regarding the biological clock is that women’s desire to have children is instinctual. She said the main force behind the desire […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the Big Gig, a program designed to bring together innovators and entrepreneurs in the Orono-Bangor area and offer networking opportunities. The program was started by a partnership between the University of Maine, the towns of Old Town and Orono, and Husson University. The Big Gig includes a series of live […]
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