WABI Television provided coverage of Wednesday’s camp fair at UMaine’s Student Recreation and Fitness Center. The Division of Student Affairs and Foster Center for Student Innovation partnered with the United Way of Eastern Maine to stage the event, which provided opportunities for area youngsters and their parents to learn about summer camp activities.
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Sharon Barker, director of the Women’s Resource Center at UMaine, was interviewed Wednesday by Bangor television station WLBZ during the 25th annual Expanding Your Horizons Conference, which was held at UMaine. Barker said numbers of females in many scientific fields are flat or dropping. The event, which is designed to help girls gain a broader […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a report about Wednesday’s alternative energy conference held at Northern Maine Community College in Presque Isle. Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was one of the speakers. Dagher spoke about UMaine’s research efforts in deepwater offshore wind power.
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Anne Lichtenwalner, veterinarian and director of UMaine’s Animal Health Lab, was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article about a new federal survey indicating that Maine’s agricultural industry appears to be healthy and growing. Lichtenwalner said the increasing number of cattle on Maine farms may reflect farmers’ ability to make the most of their grazing […]
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Marjie Harris of UMaine’s School of Social Work was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article about the seriousness of older adults’ substance abuse, which will be the focus of a daylong conference April 1 in Northport. Harris says the conference will explore ways social workers and others can help older Mainers live without drug […]
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The Bangor Daily News is reporting a new bridge on Route 180 in Ellsworth will be constructed with the composite bridge technology developed at UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The so-called bridge-in-a-backpack will be used for a new bridge over Grey’s Brook.
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UMaine social work Professor Sandra Butler’s research into Maine’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program was mentioned in a Biddeford Journal Tribune editorial about the state’s budget priorities. The editorial says state government should be careful in how much it cuts funding for such welfare programs because, according to the research conducted by Butler and […]
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An article in Mainebiz newspaper about expectations for the coming cruise ship season in Maine cites research by University of Maine economists Todd Gabe of the School of Economics and Jim McConnon, a UMaine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics, on the amount of money cruise ship visitors typically spend when they disembark to […]
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UMaine computer science graduate student Graham Morehead has begun writing a regular nature network blog for Nature.com, which is affiliated with the journal Nature. The blog is called “A Mad Hemorrhage.” In a Feb. 28 entry, Morehead discusses “systarchy,” or the phenomenon of group self-rule, trust and governance they apply to both local and global […]
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Renee Kelly, director of economic development initiatives at UMaine, is quoted in a Bangor Daily News feature story about Oxford Networks, a growing Maine-based telecommunications company.
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