In his inaugural Bangor Daily News blog, University of Maine professor of history Howard Segal discusses well-intentioned initiatives to improve education in the United States through the introduction of high-tech hardware and software. Citing filmmaker George Lucas’s Edutopia Foundation and former Maine Gov. Angus King’s school laptop initiative, Segal said that pre-existing cultural values, traditional […]
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Channel 7 (WVII) interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension veterinarian Anne Lichtenwalner and recent UMaine veterinary sciences graduate and research assistant Darryl Ann Girardin for story broadcast in the 6 p.m. news on Nov. 9 about a two-year research project helping the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife determine how prevalent a possible new […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a report about a $3.9 million project by the University of Maine and a Bangor social services agency to help improve the lives of children whose families are affected by substance abuse. Jennifer Middleton, a UMaine assistant professor of social work, is the lead researcher for the five-year project. A […]
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The Central Maine Morning Sentinel published a feature story about the University of Maine College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture’s Highmoor Farm Agricultural Experimental Station in Monmouth and its research on pest management. David Handley, University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist based at Highmoor, and Highmoor superintendent Greg Koller discussed […]
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George Markowsky, mathematician and UMaine professor of computer science, was interviewed by Bloomberg Businessweek for an article on Arizona financial analyst and adviser Tom DeMark, who has garnered industry respect and recognition for his financial forecasting based on a mathematical formula called the Fibonacci sequence, or the golden mean. Markowsky, who said the increasing fervor […]
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The Yahoo! Finance website carried an Associated Press report of research by University of Maine economist Todd Gabe that projects the medical costs of obesity for children and adolescents in Maine could reach $1.2 billion over the next 20 years. Gabe calculated that medical care of obesity cost $453 million in Maine last year. Contact: […]
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The North County Times in California noted in an article that the Oceanside Photo & Telescope company signed a $175,000 contract with the University of Maine to install an Ash-Dome and astronomy equipment as part of a plan to build a new combined planetarium and observatory in 2014 on the UMaine campus. The current Maynard […]
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University of Maine President Paul Ferguson was quoted in a Maine Campus article about a new university directory and brand standards introduced by UMaine’s Division of Marketing and Communications.
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Channel 2 (WLBZ) interviewed Dave Fuller of University of Maine Cooperative Extension for a feature on how to sustainably harvest balsam fir tips for wreath-making. Fuller said in order to sustain the life of a tree, its limbs should never be completely stripped of branches. Fuller also stressed getting any necessary permissions from landowners, and […]
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A lunch in honor of UMaine’s veterans, which was part of UMaine’s Veterans Week activities, was featured in a Channel 5 (WABI) report. Thomas Banister, senior military instructor for UMaine’s ROTC program, and Nancy Laffin, president of the UMaine Veterans Association, were interviewed for the story. Banister said likely one in five students on campus […]
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