Jake Ward, vice president of innovation and economic development at the University of Maine, spoke with the Maine Public Broadcasting Network about the effects of the federal government’s shutdown on university research. Ward said the federal government is currently not accepting new grant applications or finalizing recently awarded contracts, such as a grant proposal by the […]
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The Portland Press Herald editorial titled “Welfare bills will worsen plight of the most needy,” cites a study by Sandra Butler, a University of Maine social work professor. Butler’s study, “TANF Time Limits and Maine Families: Consequences of Withdrawing the Safety Net,” found 39 percent of the 16,000 people who lost Temporary Assistance for Needy Families because […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot reported the University of Maine School of Performing Arts’ 2013 production of “Spring Awakening” was named a New England Theatre Conference Moss Hart Memorial Award winner. Craig Ouellette, a former UMaine graduate student and current Camden-Rockport Middle School music teacher, was the play’s musical director.
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Jake Ward, vice president of innovation and economic development at the University of Maine, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for the article, “Shutdown jeopardizing science and technology statewide.” Ward said federal grants for research that have already been issued have not been affected by the government shutdown. However, the federal government is not accepting […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Boston.com, Foster’s Daily Democrat, Portland Press Herald and WLBZ (Channel 2) were among news organizations to report on the $800,000 donation from University of Maine benefactors and alums Phillip and Susan Morse to be used to install a high-definition video scoreboard on Morse Field in the Alfond Sports Stadium. The scoreboard […]
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Lisa Phelps, University of Maine Cooperative Extension program administrator, spoke with the Maine Public Broadcasting Network about 4-H for an article on the organization’s 100th birthday. Phelps said even though technology has advanced since the organization’s start, the mission of the UMaine Cooperative Extension’s youth development program remains the same. From the start, the program […]
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The Maine Edge reported members of the University of Maine community are scheduled to participate in the Bangor Book Festival Oct. 4–5. On Saturday morning at the Bangor Public Library, Jordan LaBouff, UMaine Honors preceptor of psychology, will lead a discussion of “The Sparrow,” and Pauleena MacDougall, director of the Maine Folklife Center and faculty […]
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The latest entry of the Portland Press Herald blog, “The Root: Dispatches from Maine’s food sources,” previewed a two-night honeybee disease and pest management workshop at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s office in Falmouth on Nov. 5 and 12. Master Beekeeper Erin MacGregor-Forbes will teach the workshop.
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The Maine Edge previewed the University of Maine Museum of Art’s three new fall exhibitions. The exhibits — Sachiko Akiyama’s “On Finding Home;” Susan Burnstine and Lynn Saville’s “From the Shadows;” and Gregory Kalliche’s “GPOY” — open Friday, Oct. 4 and run through Jan. 4 at the Bangor museum.
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The Maine Edge reported University of Maine student Ira Kramer will play the role of Prince Charming in the Penobscot Theatre Company’s December production of “Cinderella: A New Telling of an Old Tale.”
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