UMaine Cooperative Extension nutrition and physical activity expert Kate Yerxa was interviewed Tuesday morning on WZON-FM (103.1), discussing strategies for healthy eating under constrained finances.
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Contact: Steve Evans, (207) 581-3818 ORONO — Poet and former UMaine graduate student Rachel Perry will receive the University of Maine-based National Poetry Foundation’s first annual Millay Prize for Poetry at a ceremony and reading Thursday, Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Soderberg Auditorium in Jenness Hall. Internationally acclaimed poet and essayist Ann Lauterbach, who […]
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Nory Jones and Harold Daniel of the University of Maine’s Maine Business School offered comments for a Sept. 26 Bangor Daily News article about the importance of high-speed broadband access to business and tourists in Maine.
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Contact Catherine Schmitt, 207-944-1587 PORTLAND, Me – As waterfront advocates from around the United States convene here this week at a national symposium on working waterways and waterfronts, the City Council is considering whether or not to change Portland’s waterfront zoning, and Maine citizens are six weeks away from voting on a new $9.75 million […]
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Contact: Aaron Putnam (207) 581-2166 An international science journal this week published a paper, authored by a UMaine Ph.D. candidate, which claims to resolve a long-standing debate about the end of the last ice age in New Zealand. Aaron Putnam, a glacial geologist in UMaine’s Department of Earth Sciences and Climate Change Institute, was the […]
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A story in Seafood Source provides details on last week’s Lobster Academy, held in two New Brunswick locations. Bob Bayer and Cathy Billings from UMaine’s Lobster Institute both spoke at the event, attended by more than 30 people from eight countries. It is intended to raise awareness about the lobster among leaders in the seafood […]
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Contact: Len Kaye, (207) 262-7922; Kelly Alden, (207) 602-2137 ORONO — The annual International Symposium of Safe Medicine, cosponsored by the University of Maine Center on Aging, will bring together more than a hundred experts from around the nation and foreign countries involved with prescribing, administering and overseeing the use and abuse of prescription drugs. […]
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Comments from Nory Jones of the UMaine Business School faculty are included in a Monday Maine Public Radio report about broadband Internet access and its importance for Maine economic development.
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Monday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about Sunday’s Out of the Darkness suicide awareness walk, organized by the UMaine Counseling Center. The walk, which also serves as a fundraiser to support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, had more than 160 registered participants. The story included comments from Bethany Asquith, coordinator of the Counseling […]
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Comments from UMaine political scientist Amy Fried are included in a Monday Kennebec Journal story looking at the potential political impact of issues related to U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, who represents Maine’s 1st District. Recent news stories have reported questions about the propriety of Pingree flying on a private jet owned by her fiancee, Donald […]
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