A news release about recent research on the squid-fishing industry by Teresa Johnson of the UMaine School of Marine Science was posted today on the National Science Foundation’s Science360 News Service website. Johnson concludes after reviewing some of the regulatory history on how Northeastern quotas and fishing territories are established that the most accurate stock […]
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A Boston Globe report features UMaine student and basketball player Raheem Singleton, discussing the Boston premiere of the documentary film “Push: Madison vs. Madison.” Singleton is prominent in the film, which followed the 2007 Madison Park basketball team, on which Singleton was described in the Globe report as an “instrumental player.” Contact: Joe Carr (207) […]
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Nathan Godfried of the UMaine history faculty was quoted in a Lewiston Sun Journal story about Gordon Harris, 73, an Auburn man who was arrested in Mississippi as a Freedom Rider in 1961. Freedom Riders traveled to the Deep South to challenge segregation laws. Gottfried provided context about the Freedom Riders and the role they […]
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The May 1 Maine Sunday Telegram included a review of the current exhibits at the UMaine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. “Although not large, (the museum) has one of the nicest gallery spaces in the state,” the review says Contact: Joe Carr (207) 581-3571
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Comments from Barbara Murphy were included in a Central Maine Morning Sentinel story about efforts at a Manchester greenhouse to develop environmentally friendly ways to manage pests that damage plants. Contact: Joe Carr (207) 581-3571
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WLBZ (Channel 2) has a news story on this week’s bone marrow drive in memory of Jeff Cole, a UMaine assistant football coach who died of cancer in 2004. The UMaine football team is running the drive in the UMaine Student Fitness and Recreation Center. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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A column in the Bangor Daily News focuses on the efforts of UMaine’s Upward Bound to raise funds to support the federally funded program which assists qualified students with improving their skills in high school and to prepare to end and succeed in college. The program includes an six-week residential summer experience on the UMaine […]
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UMaine Associate Professor Peter Van Walsum of the department of chemical and biological engineering and the Forest Bioproducts Research Initiative was featured in a video on the Mobile Maine News website. The video includes an interview with Van Walsum about his work on converting forest waste products into biofuels. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Channel 7 (WVII) on Wednesday covered the pill-crushing device competition among six teams of UMaine mechanical engineering technology students in Barrows Hall. After being rated by professional nurses and engineers for efficiency, ease of use, noise and safety, students in professor Herb Crosby’s class who designed and constructed the devices ground up vitamins and other […]
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Seacoastonline.com has a feature story about Michelle Comeau of Alfred, a UMaine kinesiology student who was married last weekend before her now-husband, a private in the U.S. Army, leaves for Iraq. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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