Friday’s Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News feature stories previewing the UMaine Black Bear hockey team’s season-opening weekend. Ranked #7 in the nation and #2 in Hockey East in pre-season polls, the Black Bears will host UMass-Lowell on Friday night and UConn on Saturday night.
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UMaine junior Ben Goodman is featured in stories in the Portland Press Herald and several other news outlets, in his role as president of the Maine College Democrats organization. That group is challenging GOP gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage with regard to his stance on college students and voting rights.
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The Cumulus radio station group, including WQCB-FM, broadcast a news report featuring UMaine math professor Andre Khalil’s work in developing new methods for analyzing structural changes in cancer cells. This work, described in a UMaine news release, could lead to methods for earlier detection of cancer.
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Mainebiz notes a $1 million grant to support the Maine Tidal Power Initiative, which includes UMaine tidal power research in places such as the Cobscook Bay, Bagaduce River, and the Sheepscot estuary. The Maine Tidal Power Initiative is in its fourth year and has been awarded a total of $4 million in government and nongovernment […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine recognized four people who have had a tremendous impact on the university and its students during the annual Stillwater Society Dinner on Friday Oct. 1. Sen. Susan Collins, who was herself honored by UMaine’s prestigious Stillwater Society in 2009, presented 2010 honoree Prof. […]
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Contact: Renee Kelly, (207) 581-1401 or rwkelly@maine.edu Last May, four UMaine students arrived at the Eureka! Ranch in Cincinnati with high expectations of their impending summer internships at the invention and research think tank founded by UMaine alumnus Doug Hall. The experience turned out to be much more for students Dan Lafayette, Nate Wildes, Brian […]
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Thursday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about Wednesday’s Bangor Foreign Policy Forum talk by 1962 UMaine graduate F. William Smullen, director of national security studies at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Smullen served in the U.S. Army for 30 years, including a stint as chief of staff to former Secretary […]
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Amy Fried of the UMaine political science faculty will be a guest on the next edition of Maine Public Broadcasting’s “Maine Watch” television program. The subject will be the Maine gubernatorial race, with a focus on polling information and television commercials. The program airs Thursday Oct. 7 at 8 p.m., Friday Oct. 8 at 8:30 […]
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Comments from UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer were included in a Maine Public Radio story reporting that same-sex marriage is an issue in some Maine legislative races. Organizations opposed to such marriages are targeting certain incumbent legislators who voted for a Maine initiative that was ultimately defeated by the electorate last November.
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Mainebiz published a report based on “Knowledge in Cities,” a report co-authored by Todd Gabe of the UMaine School of Economics faculty. The report looks at the workforce in nearly 300 U.S. and Canadian studies and categorizes them according to 11 groups devised by the study’s authors. The study puts Portland in the “Thinking Region” […]
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