UMaine News

UMaine political science professor Amy Fried commented in a Friday Maine Public Radio report about issues involving Maine gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage.  As first reported by the MaineToday Media group, there are questions about LePage’s wife’s residency in Maine and Florida, and associated property tax issues.  Fried says the story “could have an impact” on […]

Shelly Moody, who earned a master’s degree at UMaine, has been named the 2011 Maine Teacher of the Year, MPBN reports. A teacher at Williams Elementary School in Oakland, Moody has a master’s in literacy. She will compete for 2011 National Teacher of the Year, with the winner to be announced next April at the […]

Gov. John Baldacci announced the Department of Energy has awarded Ocean Renewable Power Co. a $10 million grant to fund a commercial-scale tidal energy development project in Cobscook Bay near Eastport, according to Smart Energy News. As a partner in the project, UMaine researchers are supervising the program, which incorporates state-of-the-art visual and acoustic monitoring […]

UMaine football player Steven Barker, who is back on the field after receiving a medical hardship waiver from the NCAA for a sixth season of athletic eligibility, is profiled as the Black Bears enter Saturday’s 1 p.m. game against Monmouth in West Long Branch, N.J.

Maine Independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler could be trouble as the campaign heats up, UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer told the Lewiston Sun Journal in a story Friday about Cutler’s lagging poll numbers in the Maine governor’s race. Brewer also said Cutler’s struggles could mean positive strides for Democratic candidate Libby Mitchell, who was 14 […]

The annual study of issues related to poverty in Maine was released on Thursday in Bangor.  The report, authored by Ann Acheson of UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, indicates that poverty is particularly acute in Maine’s rural counties.  Acheson was interviewed for stories reported by the Bangor Daily News, WVOM radio, WABI television, WLBZ […]

Test your garden’s soil in the fall to prepare for spring planting, UMaine Cooperative Extension gardening expert Barbara Murphy advises in a how-to video available on the Extension website.

UMaine research into the connection between nanodiamonds found in Greenland ice and a climatic event 12,900 years ago that occurred around the same time as the disappearance of animals such as mammoths and saber-toothed tigers was cited in PopSci.com, the online version of Popular Science magazine. Scientists from UMaine’s Climate Change Institute took samples from […]

Brian Landry, a junior on the UMaine swim team, appeared Wednesday night on the Discovery Channel’s “Surviving the Cut.” Landry took part in the elite Special Forces Underwater Combat Divers Course over the summer after being chosen as one of 24 to try out to become one of the best divers on the planet. A […]