Alfred Bushway, food sciences professor at UMaine and authority on fiddlehead ferns, is quoted in the April 2011 edition of Martha Stewart Living magazine about whether one of Maine’s iconic wild-grown delicacies contains a toxin that can make people sick. Bushway told the magazine that he’s seen no evidence of toxins in fiddleheads.
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The Bangor Daily News reports on U.S. Marine Col. Michael Colburn, conductor of The President’s Own Marine band. Colburn is at UMaine for several days for a series of workshops and performances, including a 7:30 p.m. Tuesday concert featuring the UMaine Symphonic Band and the UMaine Concert Band. More information is available in a UMaine […]
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Brewer, Palmer in AP story on LePage Comments from Mark Brewer and Kenneth Palmer of the UMaine political science faculty are included in an Associated Press story on numerous news Web sites, including that of Washington D.C. radio station WTOP. The story looks at Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s “bluntness” and reaction among various constituencies to […]
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Golf balls made from lobster shells, created by faculty and students in UMaine’s Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, in partnership with the Lobster Institute at UMaine, are the subject of widespread news coverage. Prof. David Neivandt was interviewed for a Saturday National Public Radio story. Other reports on the golf balls, intended for use […]
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UMaine’s Tuesday dismissal of women’s basketball coach Cindy Blodgett led to a series of opinion pieces in Sunday’s Maine newspapers. Lewiston Sun Journal columnist Kalle Oakes wrote about the situation, as did Maine Sunday Telegram publisher Richard Connor. The Sunday Telegram also published an editorial about the story.
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Prof. Tom Hess from the UMaine physics faculty was interviewed for a Friday WLBZ television story about trace amounts of radiation observed by UMaine monitors since the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. UMaine is part of a national network monitoring radiation, with reports to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The Bangor Daily News published a Saturday report on a national award given to UMaine for bridge-in-a-backpack technology developed at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The American Society for Civil Engineering recognized the technology with its annual Pankow Award Thursday in Washington, DC. UMaine received the recognition along with the Maine Dept. of Transportation […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal is reporting that Carol Hathorne, the principal of Hope Elementary School, has been named the Maine 2011 Elementary National Distinguished Principal of the Year. Hathorne received a master’s degree in educational administration from UMaine in 1990, according to the article.
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MSNBC’s Innovation and Technology website featured an Associated Press story about the biodegradable golf balls, made out of lobster shells, developed by UMaine bioengineer David Neivandt and undergraduate Alex Caddell. The Bangor Daily News also reported on the golf balls, as did Bangor television station WABI.
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The Rockland-based weekly newspaper Free Press covered last week one of a series of meetings about UMaine’s efforts to research deepwater offshore wind energy. Presenters at the meeting, which was held in Port Clyde, included Bob Lindyberg of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center which is leading the research effort, and Paul Anderson, the […]
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