The Lewiston Sun Journal has a story about Lanette Bryant of Dixfield, a third-year UMaine student majoring in sociology and minoring in women’s studies. Bryant graduated recently from Emerge Maine, a program for democratic women who have an interest in running for political office. Bryant said she plans to finish her degree, start a career, […]
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A volunteer project by the University of Maine student chapter of Engineers Without Borders — bringing a septic system and safer water to a small Honduran village — has been selected as one of the top three finalists in the 2012 Newman’s Own Foundation Campus Community Service Challenge.
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The website Adventures in Climate Change is running all of the blog entries about a team of scientists from the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute who are on an expedition in the Tupungatito Glacier, located in a volcanic crater at an elevation of 19,000 feet in the Andes Mountains in Chile. Paul Mayewski, director […]
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Channel 7 (WVII) interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor and ornamental horticulturist Lois Berg Stack for a Thursday, Feb. 16, 6 p.m. news report on spring garden planning tips as warm weather approaches. Stack says February is the time when gardeners should be planning their gardens and even starting some vegetables indoors. Stack also […]
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Websites for the Columbia Journalism Review and The National of Abu Dhabi each ran a column written by Justin Martin, a UMaine CLAS-Honors preceptor of journalism. Martin wrote in the CJR about a recent segment on the TV news magazine show 60 Minutes about the nation of Qatar, which Martin claimed contained inaccuracies and told […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) interviewed two UMaine students for a feature report about their colorful courtship – a proposal made on the front page of a local newspaper supplement. Engineering major Sean Carter of Ellsworth popped the question last week to math graduate student Rachel Rier of Lubec in The Weekly, a supplement to the Bangor […]
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The VillageSoup website had a story about a new online resource, provided by the UMaine-based Maine Sea Grant, that will help those who own waterfront land understand and manage their risks. Kristen Grant, a southern Maine marine extension associate, said landowners who advised Sea Grant on the project suggested a need for information on coastal […]
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The Bangor Daily News had a story about UMaine’s Muslim Student Association, which recently raised $4,000 to send to the Humanitarian African Relief Organization. The organization coordinates the delivery of food and water to drought-stricken camps, town and villages. Three UMaine students who are members of the organization, including Vice President Abdu Traheem Sbayi, were […]
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According to a report in the Bangor Daily News, the UMaine men’s hockey team donated $500 to Operation Community Support, a group for the families of military men and women who have been deployed. Maine National Guard soldiers, many of whom will soon be deployed, and their families will attend Saturday night’s game at Alfond […]
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Regional media covered Thursday’s announcement that James Page of Old Town, a UMaine adjunct professor of philosophy, has been named the chancellor of the UMaine System. The Portland Press Herald noted Page has been a member of the UMaine Board of Visitors and UMaine Foundation. In a Maine Public Broadcasting Network radio report, Page said […]
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