Comments from Mary Ellin Logue, a UMaine associate professor of child development and family relations, were included in a Bangor Daily News report about the death of a 2-year-old who had been roughhousing with his older brother. Logue said the incident shouldn’t be cause for people to stop playing or roughhousing with their children, but […]
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The Bangor Daily News health website highlighted a UMaine news release about researchers who have been comparing athletes’ performance on an underwater treadmill versus a traditional treadmill. The group, which included graduate students Philip Watson and Travis Bouchard and undergraduate Cassandra Mendonca, who received degrees in May 2012, along with professor Robert Lehnhard, had found […]
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Bangor TV station WABI reported on UMaine’s Upward Bound program, which has been in existence for 46 years but due to a funding cut may now be eliminated. Upward Bound co-director Lori Wingo noted the program assists low-income, first-generation students for whom applying for college and financial aid can be intimidating. Becky Colannino, who is […]
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UMaine political scientist Amy Fried has a column in the Bangor Daily News about Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s recent veto of a bond for research and development. Fried noted that about 15 years ago, a bipartisan group of Maine leaders realized that R&D is critical to the state’s future and created the Maine Economic Improvement […]
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Two students who said they are heading to UMaine were interviewed in a Bangor Daily News article about Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s promotion of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education. Nick Ferguson of Sidney and Derek Caron of Oakland, both seniors at Messalonskee High School in Oakland, said they intend to study chemical engineering […]
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Dustin Penner, who played hockey at UMaine and is now playing in the Stanley Cup finals with the Los Angeles Kings, was profiled on the Sports Illustrated website. The profile noted that although Penner “skated like Bambi” when he first arrived at UMaine, the wing player now has three goals and eight assists in the […]
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Comments from Bob Bayer, a UMaine professor of animal and veterinary sciences and the executive director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, were included in a Bangor Daily News article about a lobster aquaculture breakthrough discovered by Brian Beal, a professor at the UMaine System campus in Machias and director of research at the Downeast Institute. Beal […]
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In a Bangor Daily News report about Ed Lindsey, a UMaine alumnus and Old Town High School teacher who is one of 18 teachers in the nation to have won the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators, Lindsey credited the Acadia Learning Project, in which UMaine is involved, for helping him win the award. Lindsey’s […]
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UMaine was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News story about how Chinese students have fared in Bangor-area high schools. One student, who is at Orono High School, said due to the flexibility of the American curriculum, he has been able to take classes at UMaine. The Lewiston Sun Journal also ran the story. Contact: Jessica […]
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The global energy organization Iberdrola USA Foundation and the Fundacion Iberdrola Scholarship Program for Energy and Environment Postgraduate Studies in the United States announced the awarding of fellowships to University of Maine Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate student Matthew Burns and a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Burns studies the feasibility of deploying […]
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