A blog from UMaine graduate student Seth Campbell, who is preparing to lead an expedition in Denali National Park in Alaska, was posted on the website Adventures in Climate Change. The expedition group, which will include several current and former UMaine students, will be estimating total ice volume in the Alaska Range. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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A new web tool designed by researchers in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute and School of Computing and Information Sciences was the focus of an article on the website Digital Journal and a story in the Bangor Daily News. The web tool, known as 10Green, allows users to enter a ZIP code to learn about their […]
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Justin Martin, a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences-Honors College preceptor of journalism, has a commentary on the Global Post website about the gas prices in the U.S. Martin argues journalists should reinforce the reality that our driving habits influence high prices, that our global neighbors pay a lot more than we do and that […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a report about a potential natural gas pipeline link that would move methane gas from the Juniper Ridge landfill in Old Town to UMaine’s Steam Plant, where it would be used to run boilers and create heat for campus buildings. Casella Waste Systems Inc. subsidiary EcoGas LLC has filed a […]
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An opinion column by mathematician and UMaine associate professor of computer science Jonathan Farley about discrimination against black mathematicians was published in a recent edition of the Guardian newspaper in the U.K. In it, he responds to an essay in the Nation Review that implied intellectual differences between black and white people. Farley cited several […]
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Bangor TV station WABI featured a fundraiser held Friday by UMaine sorority Pi Beta Phi that raised more than $1,000 for First Book, an organization that brings books to low-income families in the U.S. and Canada. The sorority held a chicken wing eating contest with food donated from area restaurants. UMaine students Courtney Maynard and […]
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In a series of notes about UMaine athletics, the Bangor Daily News reported that UMaine football coach Jack Cosgrove is scheduled to give the keynote address at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes breakfast on Sunday, April 22. There were also briefs about UMaine field hockey’s spring season and an upcoming UMaine women’s hockey fundraiser. Contact: […]
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Sarah Sparks, a 4-H professional with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald story about the resurgence in popularity of sewing. Sparks said more clubs are being organized around fiber arts and sewing, and an annual fashion review for 4-H members in Cumberland County has doubled in the number […]
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Portland TV station WMTW has a story about a UMaine study that found golf has a major impact on the state’s economy. UMaine economists James McConnon and Todd Gabe discovered Maine’s golf industry generated almost $270 million for the state in 2011, including tourism-related spending by out-of-state golfers. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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The Boston Globe ran an Associated Press advance about this week’s inauguration of UMaine President Paul W. Ferguson and the events of Leadership Week, including Wednesday’s keynote speech by noted author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. The inauguration will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Collins Center for the Arts. Bangor TV station […]
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