The Bangor Daily News has a story about three UMaine students who have fled Egypt in the wake of unrest in that country. Andrea Groves, a UMaine graduate student in anthropology, was studying at the American University in Cairo and fled to Jordan. Karen Boucias, director of UMaine’s Office of International Programs, told the newspaper […]
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In a story about the rising suicide rates among young men in Northern Ireland, The Irish Times noted a research collaboration between Queen’s University and John Cutcliffe of the UMaine nursing faculty. The research sought to increase understanding of suicidal young men in Northern Ireland and inform the delivery of mental health services.
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An article by UMaine Department of Communication and Journalism faculty member Michael Socolow was cited and excerpted for publication in the Winter 2011 edition of The Wilson Quarterly, published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Socolow’s peer-reviewed article details the history of the highly profitable New York Times op-ed page, considered something of […]
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A UMaine graduate student’s discovery of a bone from the oldest domesticated dog yet identified in the Americas was featured on CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks show Samuel Belknap found the 9,400-year-old bone in a paleofecal sample, providing early evidence man considered dogs as food sources.
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Katherine Musgrave, a UMaine nutrition professor emerita, commented in an Associated Press story about the drive to make the whoopie pie Maine’s state dessert. Musgrave said chocolate used in whoopie pies contain antioxidants that relax blood pressure.
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Monday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about an agreement UMaine has entered with Casella Waste Systems, which operates the Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town. The contract will allow for UMaine to purchase landfill gas from that facility to power the central steam plant. Over 20 years, the arrangement is expected to save the […]
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A Sunday incident at UMaine’s Cumberland Hall is covered in the Bangor Daily News, WABI and WLBZ/WCSH. Residence staff discovered graffiti suggesting the presence of a bomb in the building, leading to a police decision to clear the building for two hours while a bomb-sniffing dog checked to be sure it was safe for occupancy.
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Comments from Marilynne Mann, interim director of the Center for Tourism Outreach at UMaine, were included in a Bangor Daily News story about the potential economic impact of the upcoming International Biathlon Union World Cup. That event is scheduled for February in Presque Isle and Fort Kent.
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A Saturday Bangor Daily News story featured UMaine history professor Howard Segal’s perspectives on the 25th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle disaster.
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A study co-authored by UMaine social work Professor Sandra Butler was mentioned in a Thursday Bangor Daily News story about the welfare debate in Maine. The study, which Butler wrote with Thomas Chalmers McLaughlin of the University of New England, concluded that recent discussions of welfare reform make unfair generalizations about families who receive assistance.
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