In a story about Maine high schools attempting to increase their enrollment of international students, the website fenceviewer.com mentioned UMaine’s agreement with Orono High School to provide housing space and create university-based programs for high school students coming from abroad beginning next year.
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The website Horticulture Week cites research by UMaine’s Donglin Zhang in a story about invasive plants. Zhang says selecting vigorous American native woodland plans is one way of countering invasive aliens.
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The Bangor Daily News website features a report on a Thursday morning UMaine presentation by Jestina Mukoko, the executive director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project. That organization works to assess and monitor human rights abuses in that country. She is currently serving as the 2010 Human Rights Fellow at Colby College’s Oak Institute for the […]
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WABI television broadcast a Wednesday story about students the Habitat UMaine group, sleeping in a shanty on the Mall for several nights to raise money for Bangor’s Habitat for Humanity chapter.
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Prof. Jonathan Rubin from the UMaine School of Economics was interviewed for a Maine Public Radio story about Lee Academy’s decision to turn down a federal grant that would have funded a wood-pellet boiler. School officials were concerned that biofuels emissions standards would have created unmanageable operational costs.
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Comments from Doug Babkirk, associate director of UMaine Cooperative Extension, were included in a Falmouth Forecaster story about Extension’s plans for a new Cumberland County learning center and office facility in Falmouth. The University of Maine System Board of Trustees recently approved the Tidewater Farm Regional Learning Center, a collaboration involving UMaine, the Cumberland County […]
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Several media outlets, including MPBN mentioned UMaine’s pioneering research into deepwater offshore wind turbine technology after the National Wildlife Federation released a report Wednesday. The report made a case for the government to expedite permits for and invest in offshore wind projects. UMaine has received more than $20 million in federal funding for its work […]
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UMaine researchers Ivan J. Fernandez and Stephen A. Norton served as guest editors for the most recent volume of the journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, which featured “The Bear Brook Watershed in Maine — The Second Decade,” a special issue that includes a series of 10 papers about UMaine’s long-term, whole-watershed research project in eastern […]
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UMaine hazing researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden have done several news interviews since the recent Associated Press story updating their extensive research relative to hazing behaviors at U.S. educational institutions. Allan was a Wednesday guest on the WZON radio (103.1FM and AM620) morning program. Madden appeared on “College Connection,” an Oklahoma radio program about […]
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A Wednesday Seacoast Online story previews a Dec. 11 York event commemorating the 300th anniversary of the wreck of the Nottingham Galley on Boon Island, six miles off the coast of that southern Maine town. The story notes that UMaine marine archaeologist Warren Riess recovered several artifacts from that wreck in 1995.
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