The biennial UMaine hockey alumni game was featured in the Portland Press Herald. The game was held in Saco this year due to ongoing renovations to Alfond Arena. Tyler Walsh, a UMaine senior and student manager for the Black Bears, was interviewed about his memories of traveling with the team and being around the players […]
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News story about a bipartisan commission that is beginning the process of redistricting Maine. Brewer told the BDN the state is dealing with a relatively small imbalance of 4,300 voters, but the process is messy whenever politics is involved. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The Lewiston Sun Journal has a story about a book written by David B. Field, a retired UMaine professor of forest resources who is also a UMaine graduate. “Images of America: Along Maine’s Appalachian Trail” illustrates the history of the trail’s mountains and forests in Maine. Field maintained six miles of the scenic trail for […]
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John Mahon, who holds the John M. Murphy Chair in International Business Policy and Strategy and is a professor of management at the Maine Business School at UMaine, had a column in this weekend’s Bangor Daily News. Mahon wrote about approaches to taxing large businesses and noted a study being done by Maine Business School […]
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The work of a UMaine psychologist was noted on the website International Business Times in a story about the accuracy issues of survey-taking. A study done by Michele Alexander (a UMaine faculty member who was killed in a car accident in 2003) and a fellow researcher at Ohio State was cited as having found women […]
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Bangor television station WABI had a story about the Innovation Adventure Day Camp, which was held last week at UMaine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation. Camp director Emily Albee, the 2011 UMaine Graduate Student Employee of the Year, was interviewed for the story along with some of the young campers. A second session of the […]
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The Journal Tribune of Biddeford has an editorial noting UMaine’s contributions to wind power research. The editorial, which advocates for more wind farms in Maine, says UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center is working on the technology and engineering to train a new generation how to work in the emerging wind power industry. Contact: Jessica […]
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UMaine graduate student Tawny Virgilio was interviewed Thursday by Channel 5 (WABI) for an evening news broadcast about a bio-surveillance project she’s doing under the supervision of entomology professor Eleanor Groden to determine the hunting habits of a wasp that catches beetles, including the destructive emerald ask borer. The wasp Cerceris fumipennis doesn’t sting people, […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported on a UMaine ice hockey camp that was held this week in Falmouth. Several current and former Black Bears worked at the camps, which UMaine Coach Tim Whitehead said will expose the population-heavy southern region of the state to the hockey program. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The website for Biomass Magazine has a story about an effort to study biomass in northern Maine which is being funded by UMaine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative. UMaine-Fort Kent researcher Brian Kermath, the director of the school’s Center for Rural Sustainable Development, told the magazine his center is partnering with SSI on a project that will […]
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