A guest column by Carolyn Ball of the UMaine public administration faculty appears in Monday’s Bangor Daily News. In the column, she analyzes issues related to transparency in political campaigns, especially as it relates to contributions by nonprofit organizations.
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Comments from Barbara Murphy of UMaine Cooperative Extension were included in a Maine Sunday Telegram story about the 2010 Maine growing season. The story notes that farmers and gardeners donated more than 200,000 pounds of produce through Extension’s Maine Harvest for Hunger program. That’s more than double last year’s yield of 87,319 pounds.
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A Maine Today Media (Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Central Maine Morning Sentinel) story profiled Rep. Emily Cain, who will become the Democratic House leader when Maine’s 125th legislature is sworn in this week. In the story, Cain discusses her reasons for enrolling at UMaine, from which she earned a bachelor’s degree in 2002. Currently […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) covered Saturday’s wreath-making workshop at UMaine’s Page Farm and Home Museum. The story included an interview with Patty Henner, the museum’s director.
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Nory Jones of the UMaine business faculty was the primary source for a Friday WLBZ/WCSH television story about marketing strategies that retailers employ in the few days following Thanksgiving.
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Comments from Jim McConnon of the UMaine School of Economics were included in a Lewiston Sun Journal story about holiday shopping data and predictions for “Black Friday” retail activity.
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A Wednesday Inside Higher Ed story reports on the continuing hazing research project headed up by UMaine professors Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden. Building on extensive survey research from 2007 and 2008, Allan and Madden have now created a “National Agenda for Hazing Prevention in Education,” to inform efforts aimed at preventing hazing on college campuses […]
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The Bangor Daily News health and wellness section has a column about the UMaine Center on Aging’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, known as RSVP. Founded as part of the National Senior Service Corps in the 1970s, RSVP is for people 55 and older who want to use their life experiences and job skills to strengthen […]
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Amy Cotton, the director of Rosscare and a UMaine School of Nursing Graduate, has been selected president-elect of the National Gerontological Nursing Association, according to a story in the Bangor Daily News. The association represents more than 1,700 nurses nationally and is dedicated to improving the quality of nursing care given to older adults.
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Mainebiz had a story about the possibility of UMaine’s bridge-in-a-backpack technology being used at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. A Russian company which is working on transportation infrastructure projects at the Olympics signed a memorandum of understanding with Orono-based Advanced Infrastructure Technologies, which is commercializing the bridge technology developed at the university’s AEWC Advanced […]
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