The UMaine branch of the national group Engineers Without Borders was the focus of a Bangor Daily News story about the group’s effort to raise funds for the completion of a new public works project in Honduras. The story noted the urgent nature of the fundraising effort as students need to have money in place […]
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Sophie Wilson, the town manager of Brownville, will be offered the position of town manager of Orono, according to a story in the Bangor Daily News. Wilson has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UMaine, according to the story.
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about UMaine social work graduate student Kristina Minott and a study she is conducting about addiction recovery and the qualities of personal resiliency. Minott is seeking individuals in various stages of recovery for an anonymous survey designed to measure their resiliency.
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UMaine alumnus Doug Hall, who founded UMaine’s innovation engineering program, was mentioned in a story in The Forecaster newspaper in southern Maine. Hall’s techniques helped inspire children to come up with marketing ideas during a Lemonade Day Maine event in South Portland.
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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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