The Bangor Daily News provided a review of the three exhibitions that will open at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor on Oct. 8. The story includes comments from George Kinghorn, the museum’s director. A Sept. 29 UMaine news release provides more information about the artists and the exhibitions.
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Several news organizations covered Tuesday’s UMaine gubernatorial forum, at which all five candidates for governor discussed higher education and other issues of statewide importance. Stories appear on the Web sites of the Portland Press Herald, WLBZ/WCSH and Bangor Daily News.
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Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty was quoted in a Maine Public Radio report looking at the independent gubernatorial candidacy of Kevin Scott, a business owner who lives in the Oxford County town of Andover. Brewer also commented in the MPBN profile of Republican nominee Paul LePage, who currently serves as Waterville’s mayor.
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Barbara Murphy of UMaine Cooperative Extension was featured in a Tuesday WLBZ/WCSH television report about whether it’s advisable or necessary to rake the leaves that fall on lawns during the fall. She says it’s a matter of personal preference, but that there does not seem to be any real advantage gained from nutrients that might […]
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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News includes a brief preview of a Thursday Oct. 14 UMaine lecture, “Faking Ancient Mesoamerican Art,” by Karen Olsen Brhuns, director of the Cihuatan-Las Marias Archaeological Project for the Fundacion Nacional de Arqueologia in El Salvador. The talk, part of UMaine’s observance of Maine Archaeology Month, is scheduled for the Bodwell Area […]
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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News reports that a $1 million federal grant will support UMaine research related to the development of tidal energy off the Maine coast. UMaine engineering Prof. Michael “Mick” Peterson is quoted in the report, which details the study as it relates to potential environmental impact.
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The Morning Sentinel has posted a story about the five Maine gubernatorial candidates’ visits Tuesday to the UMaine campus. Republican candidate Paul LePage was the first to meet with the UMaine community.
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Contact: Andre Khalil, (207) 581-3911; George Manlove (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — A method developed by a University of Maine mathematician to get a much more detailed look at cellular morphology has the potential to aid in early cancer detection. Andre Khalil, a UMaine assistant professor of mathematics and cooperating assistant professor of physics, has […]
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Contact: Mick Peterson (207) 581-2129 or michael.peterson@maine.edu ORONO – A group of University of Maine researchers, headed up by UMaine Libra Foundation Professor of Engineering Michael “Mick” Peterson, has received a $1 million grant from the Department of Energy to continue developing environmental impact protocols at the site of a tidal-power turbine near Eastport and […]
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Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, (207) 581-1904 ORONO — The Hudson Museum will host a free, public lecture by Karen Olsen Bruhns, one of the leading authorities on Pre-Columbian fake artifacts from Mesoamerica and the South American Andes, Thursday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. Bruhns is director of the Cihuatan/Las Marias Archaeological Project for the Fundacion Nacional […]
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