An opinion column by UMaine Dean of Students Robert Dana about Maine’s growing drug abuse problems appeared in the Feb. 4 edition of the Bangor Daily News. Dana calls for a multi-pronged, community-wide approach to addressing the factors that drive demand for drugs and an acknowledgement that the problem exists.
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John Mahon, the John M. Murphy Chair of Business Policy and Strategy and professor of management in the Maine Business School, was interviewed for two recent articles published by America.gov — “Corporate Reputation Matters” and “Companies Bank on Trust.” Mahon, an authority on corporate responsibility, credibility and reputation, says businesses too often neglect to continuously […]
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The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core Project, an Oregon State-based effort in which UMaine is taking part, was the subject of a story in the Corvallis Gazette-Times of Oregon. Researchers have drilled an ice core with ice that may be up to 100,000 years old in search of new clues about climate change.
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Information from a UMaine study about the costs associated with winter snow removal was included in a Bangor Daily News story about how communities are dealing with snow removal this year. The study, which was done by Jonathan Rubin, professor of resource economics with UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and School of Economics, found […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Channel 5 (WABI) reported on the visit Feb. 3 to the University of Maine by Donald Farish, president of Rowan University and one of four candidates to replace UMaine President Robert Kennedy, who is stepping down in June. Farish spent two days on campus in meetings, interviews and touring the […]
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An article on the Feb. 1 edition of the Bangor Daily News about SnapSpace Solutions Inc., a business opening in Brewer to create novel homes out of shipping containers, cited collaboration by the company owner and the University of Maine’s Knowledge Transfer Alliance and the UMaine Advanced Manufacturing Center. The newspaper carried a story Feb. […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) on Feb. 3 aired a story about UMaine accounting students offering free tax-return assistance on Fridays at the Orono Public Library.
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James Dill, a pest management specials at UMaine Cooperative Extension, will be the keynote speaker Friday at a forum about bedbugs, according to the Lewiston Sun Journal. The forum, sponsored by the Lewiston-Auburn Public Health Committee, will be held in Chase Hall at Bates College starting at 8:30 a.m.
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Two UMaine researchers were mentioned in a Working Waterfront column about the state’s oyster industry and an outbreak of the pathogen Haplosporidium nelson, known as MSX. The column, which was co-authored by Catherine Schmitt of the UMaine-based Maine Sea Grant, mentioned the work that Dana Morse of the Sea Grant Extension program, and Debbie Bouchard, […]
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The UMaine branch of the national group Engineers Without Borders was the focus of a Bangor Daily News story about the group’s effort to raise funds for the completion of a new public works project in Honduras. The story noted the urgent nature of the fundraising effort as students need to have money in place […]
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