Channel 2 (WLBZ) covered the 2012 Northern Maine Children’s Water Festival held Tuesday at UMaine. The event, which is sponsored by the university in conjunction with the Maine Center for Disease Control, Verso Paper and Maine Department of Environmental Protection, is designed to creatively educate school students about the importance of clean water and healthy […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried an article about Bangor High School students starting to analyze data collected during a University of Maine-assisted scientific balloon launch recently. UMaine electrical engineering professor Rick Eason helped the students launch and later retrieve the weather balloon that carried sensors and other equipment to 95,000 feet to monitor temperature, ultraviolet […]
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UMaine was noted in an article in the Kennebec Journal about Maine colleges and universities awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court decision on whether admissions offices may or may not use race or ethnicity in student enrollment decisions. University of Maine is among those whose admissions offices do not consider race and ethnicity in enrollment. Contact: […]
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The Pacific Standard magazine posted a blog that cites research by University of Maine psychology professor William Farthing about risk-takers and daredevils such as extreme skydiver Felix Baumgartner. A 2005 study by Farthing revealed that men who do risky things don’t necessarily impress anyone, until they do something dangerous for altruistic reasons, which at that […]
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Comments from University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist David Handley were included in a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report on the Asian spotted-winged fruit fly, which has begun appearing in Maine and presents a new threat to soft fruit growers. The fly can bore into unripe soft fruit such as blueberries […]
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University of Maine new media professor and design specialist Jon Ippolito was interviewed for a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report on the psychological effects of the color, design and placement of political signs during campaign seasons. Ippolito said signs can create subliminal and symbolic messages from candidates and also can represent the presence of third-party […]
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An article in the Springfield, Mo. News-Leader newspaper about emergency services personnel preparedness for trouble during “Dayglow” paint concerts at colleges and universities included comments from University of Maine Police Chief Roland Lacroix, who said UMaine planned well in advance of a Dayglow concert last year at UMaine and after substantial research into what to […]
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University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer was among several political analysts interviewed by the global Reuters news service about what to expect Oct. 11 during the first of the vice presidential debates between Democratic Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan, a U.S. senator from Wisconsin. Brewer […]
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Comments from University of Maine Cooperative Extension Director John Rebar were included in a Bangor Daily News editorial urging support for an upcoming vote on referendum Question 2, a $7.8 million bond request for the University of Maine System. Rebar provided educational information on the work currently being done in UMaine’s animal and plant diagnostic […]
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University of Maine School of Forest Resources students and faculty members Rob Lilieholm, John Daigle and Bill Livingston, anthropologist Darren Ranco, coordinator of UMaine’s Native American Studies, and several Maine Indian Basketmakers were featured in an Oct. 4 airing of “Basket Trees — Saving a Tradition,” a Sustainable Maine documentary on the Maine Public Broadcasting […]
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