The MarineLink.com website posted a photograph of UMaine School of Marine Sciences graduate student Jennifer McHenry along with a report about a new, technologically enhanced, remotely operated underwater vehicle McHenry and colleagues will use to broaden their abilities to study oceans and waterways. The article said UMaine’s Darling Marine Center is home to world-renowned research […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) interviewed Len Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging, and UMaine political scientist Amy Fried Thursday for a report on the U.S. Supreme Court vote upholding the Affordable Care Act. Kaye praised the decision and Fried noted that the court’s ruling also said states will not be required to […]
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In a Bangor Daily News article about the merger of Maine’s Agriculture and Conservation departments, UMaine professor of food science and nutrition Mary Ellen Camire commented that there may trial-and-error in the merger at first, followed by another reorganization. She also said she hopes food safety isn’t overshadowed as a priority in a larger department. […]
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Gianna Marrs, UMaine’s interim director of student financial aid, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald story about a negotiations in Congress to freeze the interest rate for federal-backed student loans. There is a chance the interest rate could double, and Marrs said her office is working with students to make sure they fully understand […]
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University of Maine College of Engineering Dean Dana Humphrey was interviewed Wednesday for a Maine Public Broadcasting report about UMaine’s new Brunswick Engineering program at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station. Humphrey said the hands-on program is designed to increase the number of engineering students in Maine. Humphrey observed that Maine is currently 49th in […]
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An article appearing in the New York Daily News about blue, calico and orange lobsters at a Portland lobster pound cited the University of Maine Lobster Institute, which has calculated the odds of finding a blue lobster as a 2-in-1-million phenomenon and a calico lobster as a 1-in-30 million discovery. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist David Handley discussed this year’s early strawberry season in a Portland Press Herald feature article, which included recipes for cooking with strawberries. The article also noted a July 10 Cooperative Extension class in Falmouth on making, canning and freezing strawberry jam. Contact: George Manlove, (207) […]
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network interviewed University of Maine economics graduate student Travis Blackmer about research he and colleagues did last year through the School of Economics assessing the contents of household garbage samples throughout Maine, which revealed 60 percent of what was discarded could have been recycled or composted at substantial economic savings to […]
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An opinion column by University of Maine associate professor of computing and information science Jonathan Farley about the Baxter Academy for Technology and Science appeared in the Portland Daily Sun newspaper. Farley, who is also a math consultant and a member of the advisory board for Baxter Academy, argued that schools specializing in science, technology, […]
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An opinion column in the Bangor Daily News by University of Maine professor of philosophy Michael Howard used analogies to characterize the needs and wants of the poor in the context of the economics principal of declining marginal utility. He discusses differences between items or experiences considered “pleasers” or “relievers,” and the balance based upon […]
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