Channel 5 (WABI) broadcast a Monday report on UMaine’s reaction to a weekend Orono fire that displaced more than a dozen UMaine students. Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students described the university’s response, which included providing various services and access to materials those students need to continue their studies uninterrupted.
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Several Maine media outlets covered the announcement Tuesday that UMaine women’s basketball coach Cindy Blodgett had been relieved of her coaching duties. It was a front-page story in the Bangor Daily News, and several UMaine players spoke with the BDN on Tuesday. The Portland Press Herald also ran a story along with a Steve Solloway […]
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Bangor television station WLBZ has a story about a new golf ball made of lobster shells which was developed by UMaine bioengineer David Neivandt. UMaine junior Alex Caddell of Winterport, who also worked on the project, was interviewed along with Neivandt for the story.
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The Morning Sentinel has another in its weekly series of columns about UMaine nursing alumna Ashley Underwood, who is a cast member on the CBS reality show “Survivor.” After five episodes of playing under-the-radar, according to the column, Underwood has gained a nemesis on the show, which should make for some interesting fireworks. The Sentinel […]
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UMaine Cooperative Extension was one of the hosts of the Second Annual Washington County 4-H Robotics Expo, held at ine-Machias, according to a Bangor Daily News story. Twenty teams of Washington County children in grades 5-8 competed in the event.
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Several news organizations covered Monday’s announcement that UMaine and Orono native Steve Abbott agreed on a contract to keep Abbott, who was serving as the interim athletic director, in the position for two more years. The Portland Press Herald and Bangor television station WABI both had stories about the hiring, while a Bangor Daily News […]
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The Bangor Daily News had a story about a U.S. Department of Agriculture research laboratory located on the UMaine campus that could be closed and 18 jobs eliminated due to the federal budget impasse. The USDA’s New England Plant, Soil and Water Laboratory is the only one of its kind of the region. The lab’s […]
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a guest column by Dean Ivan Manev of UMaine’s College of Business, Public Policy and Health. In the column, “Making I-95 a Maine innovation highway,” Manev explains some of the factors that make economic development clusters successful and offers suggestions about ways in which Maine can deal with related geographic […]
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The Portland Press Herald has a story about “Signs of the Seasons: A Maine Phenology Project,” a Maine Sea Grant and UMaine Cooperative Extension initiative. The project asks volunteers across the state to help track and document the effects of climate change on common plants and animals.
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Curt Stager, a paleoclimatologist and adjunct research faculty member of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, was interviewed for a Toronto Star story about his new book, “Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth.” The book, which was released earlier this month, focuses on the current era of the earth’s history, when humans have […]
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