UMaine history Professor Richard Judd’s new book, “A Landscape History of New England,” was reviewed in the Boston Globe. Judd co-edited the book, which explores the understanding of landscape through a sense of memory and social identity. The reviewer wrote that the essays in the book capture the New England of living memory. Contact: Jessica […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a feature story about UMaine’s standardbred program, which teaches students the ins and outs of how to train and handle a breed of horse trained for harness racing. UMaine student Amy Bologna was interviewed for the article and student Amy Hofmann was featured in a series of photographs. The story […]
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The work of W. Franklin Dove, a biologist who studied animal production while at UMaine in the early 20th century, was mentioned in a blog on the Scientific American website. Dove spent years of his career removing and implanting immature horn buds in the skulls of animals such as goats and cows to show that […]
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Mike Mardosa, a graphic designer at UMaine, was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News story (http://bangordailynews.com/2011/11/29/living/geaghan-brothers-crafts-new-brews-for-the-queen-city/) about a new brewery opening in Bangor. Mardosa designed labels for Geaghan Brothers Brewing Company. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Several state and national news outlets, including the website Boxscore News, noted that UMaine football coach Jack Cosgrove, a 1978 UMaine graduate, was named Tuesday the New England Football Writers Division I FCS Coach of the Year. Cosgrove, in his 19th season as head coach, has led the Black Bears to an 8-3 record and […]
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The Boston Globe website included an Associated Press story about $1.7 million in funding for the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems, known as NERACOOS, which includes UMaine’s Physical Oceanography Group and UMaine Professor Neal Pettigrew. The Bangor Daily News also ran the AP story, which mentioned the funding will enable researchers to […]
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Twelve University of Maine nursing students, a recent nursing graduate, and a faculty adviser are raising money for a Spring Break public health, service-learning mission with underprivileged families in and around the city of Belize in Central America.
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Gloria Vollmers, a UMaine accounting professor, has an op-ed in the Bangor Daily News about the kinds of American households that are not paying federal taxes. Vollmers argues that a large part of those that are not paying include the working poor, families and the elderly, and those groups should not be condemned for their […]
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The website Azonano noted a UMaine-Northwestern University research project, which includes contributions by UMaine physicist Dean Astumian, looking into artificial molecular machines. Astumian stated that all nanoscale machines experience collision with the surrounding molecules, causing thermal noise, and researchers are working on a chemical method by which the noise would be used for constructive purposes. […]
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UMaine economist James McConnon was quoted in a Maine Public Broadcasting Radio story about reports of stronger-than-expected Black Friday sales in Maine. McConnon said strong sales could be the result of consumers with less personal debt and a decline in personal savings rates. Nory Jones, a UMaine associate professor in the Maine Business School and […]
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