The website of television network NESN has a story about a casting call for UMaine students who want to compete on a TV quiz show that would feature academic- and intelligence-based challenges. The show “Schooled” would pit UMaine students against students from eight other New England schools, including Boston College, Boston University, Connecticut, UMass, Amherst, […]
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Channel 7 (WVII) on Thursday aired a report on how the University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center is helping Maine businesses with innovative manufacturing projects, including the recent design for a composite safety toe cap for an Auburn company that manufactures boot for firefighters. UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center created the composite resin […]
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UMaine business professor John Mahon of the Maine Business School was interviewed for a Channel 7 (WVII) news report this week on the potential economic effects of the crises in Japan. Mahon says the automotive industry, international debt and oil markets, in addition to reconstruction supplies markets, likely will be affected. The Portsmouth Herald also […]
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Bangor television stations Channel 5 (WABI), Channel 2 (WLBZ) and Channel 7 (WVII) interviewed Cooperative Extension educator and maple syrup expert Kathy Hopkins and Francis Avery, who operates the University of Maine’s Thomas J. Corcoran Sugar House Thursday for a feature on the maple syrup season, now well under way with cold nights and warm […]
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Research done by James McConnon, UMaine Cooperative Extension specialist and economics professor, was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News column about women and work. The column, which is the first of a new series called Women@Work, states McConnon’s research has found 30 percent of microbusinesses in Maine are owned by women.
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Bangor television station WABI noted Saturday’s broom hockey benefit game featuring the UMaine women’s hockey team against the Third Watch Hockey Club. The game, which will take place starting at 2 p.m. at Alfond Arena, is a benefit for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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UMaine physiologist Harold “Dusty” Dowse was the subject of a BDN story in its Conversations with Maine series. Dowse discussed his interest in breadmaking, karate, and how he came to teach comparative anatomy at UMaine.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout was interviewed by the Bangor Daily News in advance of her visit to UMaine next week. Strout, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for her fictional work, “Olive Kitteridge,” will be on campus March 22-24 to speak to writing classes and give a public reading of the book at […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about a group of UMaine professors who will spend a month in the Netherlands working at a wind turbine testing facility. The researchers, including AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center director Habib Dagher, will test three models for deepwater offshore turbines at the Marine Research Institute Netherlands.
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UMaine’s Paul Mayewski is set to give a talk on Thursday, March 31, about the role humans play in climate change, according to a Bangor Daily News story. Mayewski, the director of the Climate Change Institute at UMaine, will speak in Hutchins Hall at the Collins Center for the Arts. The talk, which starts at […]
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