A Sunday Bangor Daily News story about a Saturday evening Orono includes comments from Vice President Robert Dana. Several UMaine students living at the Stillwater Village apartments were displaced. UMaine student affairs personnel were on the scene and quickly provided those students with access to food, housing and other necessities.
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Comments from Lois Berg Stack of UMaine Cooperative Extension are included in a Portland Press Herald column detailing steps that one can take now to prepare for spring gardening. Stack and other experts provide a series of practical tips in the column.
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a story previewing a Tuesday UMaine talk by climate change activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier. Currently spending a year as a teaching scholar at Bowdoin, Watt-Cloutier is a member of the Inuit tribe who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2007. After a Tuesday 2 p.m. session with UMaine students, Watt-Cloutier […]
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UMaine anthropology professor Dan Sandweiss is quoted in a Los Angeles Times story about a discovery shedding new light on the earliest settlement of the Americas. Texas A&M professor Michael Waters, who spoke at UMaine last fall, is the lead author of a Science article that calls into question the belief that people from the […]
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Comments from Bruce Segee of the UMaine electrical and computer engineering faculty are included in a front-page Mainebiz story about efforts to leverage cyberinfrastructure and supercomputing resources to assist in statewide economic development efforts. The story notes that a University of Maine System-led initiative, Cyberinfrastructure Investment for Development, Economic Growth and Research (CIDER) recently received […]
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NESN.com covered the tryouts held Thursday at UMaine for “Schooled,” NESN’s new reality series. Three UMaine students will be selected to take part in a battle of intelligence-based challenges against students from other New England schools. NESN has a video of some of the potential contestants on its website. WLBZ also reported on the tryouts.
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Comments from UMaine’s John Mahon were included in a USA Today story which analyzed 2010 Census numbers for the state of Maine. Mahon, a business expert, said the north-south population split revealed in the numbers reflects real regional tensions in that southern Maine residents resent money that goes to northern areas for social services, but […]
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WLBZ and WVII reported Thursday’s meeting of the Northeast Regional Migration Monitoring Network at UMaine. UMaine ornithologist Rebecca Holberton, one of the coordinators of the network, was interviewed about the need for monitoring the patterns of migrating birds in the Gulf of Maine.
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Comments from Prof. Dan Sandweiss of the UMaine anthropology faculty are included in a Science Magazine story about new findings — reported this week in Science — about the earliest settlement of the Americas. Lead author Michael Waters of Texas A&M University writes about a discovery in Texas that “tells us once and for all […]
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Several UMaine students who turned out for a casting call for the new reality quiz show “Schooled,” to begin airing on the New England Sports Network in the fall, were interviewed for a Wednesday evening news report on Channel 2 (WLBZ).
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