Jeremy Frey, who will be exhibiting his Maine Indian baskets Saturday at the Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstration at the Hudson Museum, was featured in a Bangor Daily News article about a national arts grant he received Tuesday. Saturday’s event will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Collins Center for the […]
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An article in the Dec. 8 edition of the Bangor Daily News about Legal Services for the Elderly attorney Julie Millet in Bangor, and the increase in the number of older people needing legal services, cited a recent study by the University of Maine Center on Aging that established a growing need. Legal Services commissioned […]
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In a Bangor Daily News letter to the editor, UMaine’s Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, advocates for federal research investments he writes have helped the UMaine-based offshore wind technology development program create 250 jobs this year within 25 Maine companies and organizations.
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CNBC had on its website an Associated Press story in which UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Barbara Murphy was quoted about gleaning leftover crops to donate to the needy. Murphy said gleaning is becoming more popular as a way to reduce waste.
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The Lewiston Sun Journal reports on a new exhibit at the Maine State Museum in Augusta, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the wreck of the Nottingham Galley off the Maine coast near York. The exhibit includes video and photo depictions of the efforts of UMaine marine archaeologist Warren Riess, who recovered some of the ship’s […]
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Comments from Jim McConnon of the UMaine School of Economics faculty and Cooperative Extension are included in a Wednesday Lewiston Sun Journal report looking at the holiday retail season in Maine.
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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about a weekend incident in a UMaine documentary film class. According to news reports and accounts of those present, a student threatened to “butcher and skin” a live rabbit as part of a presentation to the class. The story includes comments from that student, along with two others, […]
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Ashley Kerekes, a recent UMaine graduate from the College of Education and Human Development, has become a celebrity of sorts in the world of cricket. Her Twitter handle @theashes matches the name of a popular Australian cricket tournament, “The Ashes.” During the tournament, fans began communicating with Kerekes through Twitter, assuming she was affiliated with […]
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Monday’s Bangor Daily News included a book review written by Howard Segal of the UMaine history faculty. The book, “The Three-Legged Woman and Other Excursions in Teaching,” was written by Robert Klose, a biology professor who serves on the University College of Bangor faculty. In the book, Klose describes various experiences in his teaching career […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a feature about “Clutter: A Creative Exploration of Junk and Stuff,” an exhibition organized by 10 UMaine students and scheduled for 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, December 10, at 29 Broad Street in Bangor. UMaine graduate student Allison Melton is heading up the project, which will allow the students […]
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