A weekend report on Science Magazine’s Science Now Web site covers a discovery by UMaine anthropology graduate student Sam Belknap. As reported in an American Journal of Physical Anthropology article, Belknap’s discovery provides evidence of the earliest domesticated dogs in the New World. The piece was written by Heather Pringle, a well-known science journalist who […]
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Comments from UMaine business professor John Mahon were included in an MPBN report about the news that Maine’s tax climate for new business investment was ranked No. 1 in the nation in a report from Ernst & Young done for the Council on State Taxation, a trade group representing multi-state corporations. Mahon said the report […]
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The Maine Composites Alliance, which works closely with UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, has won a $489,468 grant from the Maine Technology Institute to organize, promote and expand Maine’s ocean and wind energy cluster, according to a story on the Composites World website. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Maine and national media picked up Monday’s announcement by UMaine athletics director Steve Abbott that Richard Barron, an assistant coach at N.C. State, has been hired to coach the UMaine women’s basketball team. The Portland Press Herald had a story and Bangor television station WABI (Channel 5) also ran a story. Blue Ridge Now, the […]
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The trial of Garrett Cheney, a 23-year-old who is facing manslaughter and other charges in the Jan. 30, 2010 car crash that killed UMaine student Jordyn Bakley of Camden, is scheduled to begin in July, according to the Bangor Daily News. Cheney’s lawyer met with officials in court Monday. The Boston Herald had an AP […]
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer told the Portland Press Herald a Republican-backed bill in the Maine legislature that seeks to ease town clerks’ duties around elections by eliminating same-day voter registrations and some absentee voting has a partisan edge. In recent decades, he said, Democrats want fewer restrictions on registration and voting because that party […]
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The Bangor Daily News had an obituary for Malcolm E. Jones, a UMaine graduate who eventually became president of Bangor Savings Bank.
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The Bangor Daily News posted a story Monday afternoon about the hiring of a new coach for the UMaine women’s basketball team. UMaine athletic director Steve Abbott made the announcement Monday that Richard Barron, who spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach at North Carolina State, will be the Black Bears’ new head […]
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A UMaine business student has won an award for his work in the area of options, according to the Kennebec Journal. Paul Brown, a financial economics major from Mount Vernon, received the Chicago Board Options Exchange Award of Excellence in the Study of Options. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Wash., has a story about a fraternity that has seeking to rebuild its reputation and ranks on the campus of Washington State University after allegations of hazing four years ago. The story mentioned a 2008 study by UMaine researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden, who found 55 percent of college students […]
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