The Bangor Daily News reported on the news that UMaine’s aerospace engineering concentration has produced its first graduate. Richard McGrath of Westport Island said he took the required three classes after he was laid off from Bath Iron Works. Adjunct professor David Rubenstein, who teaches aeronautics, astronautics, flight dynamics, modeling and control of aircraft and […]
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UMaine business professor Steve Colburn and some of his students were featured in a story on Bangor’s WABI TV station. Colburn’s students are providing free tax assistance at the Orono Public Library this month and next month to those who qualify. Colburn, who is supervising the students, said the program is a way for them […]
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for a story in the Central Maine Morning Sentinel about this year’s elections for Maine House and Senate. Brewer said both houses are up for grabs again after the Republicans took control of both last year, and it is conceivable there could be a change in partisan control. […]
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Hugh Curran, a resident of coastal Surry, Maine who teaches Peace and Reconciliation courses at UMaine, has an opinion column in the Feb. 1 edition of the Ellsworth American, in which he discusses the loss of public “commons” areas in Maine’s Downeast ocean coves and bays. Curran laments the increasing loss of these public areas […]
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UMaine CLAS-Honors Preceptor of Journalism Justin Martin will be interviewed at 2:15 p.m. Friday on WLIP, a Wisconsin-based radio station that broadcasts from Chicago to Milwaukee, about a recent column Martin wrote for the Christian Science Monitor. Martin will talk about the economics of Generation Y. To listen live, go to the WLIP website.
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Several UMaine students and Patty Counihan, director of the UMaine Career Center, were interviewed for a Channel 7 news report on Wednesday’s Career Fair at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. The event attracted hundreds of students and nearly 90 businesses looking to hire interns and full- and part-time employees. The reports starts 9 minutes, […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension water quality and soil specialist John Jemison was interviewed for a Wednesday evening Channel 7 (WVII) news report on a recent study on how farmers view the future of farming in Maine. The report says farmers are optimistic about small and mid-sized farms in spite of challenges. The interview begins […]
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The New York Daily News carried a report about UMaine research that links consumption of dairy products to high cognitive abilities in adults. The article noted that researchers at UMaine found adults who consumed more dairy products scored “significantly” higher on memory and other cognitive tests than those who drank little to no milk. Contact: […]
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Several media outlets have reported on the news that John Voltz has been hired as executive director of Blackstone Accelerates Growth, a statewide initiative involving UMaine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation. Mainebiz had a story about the hiring, noting that the Blackstone Foundation launched in October a $3 million fund to help Maine’s entrepreneurial community […]
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Bangor TV station WLBZ covered Wednesday’s annual Career Fair, which was held at UMaine’s New Balance Student Recreation Center. The report said hundreds of students had the opportunity to visit with dozens of companies and organizations about jobs and internship opportunities. Several students, including mechanical engineering major Jake Low, who said location and job satisfaction […]
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