UMaine News

Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News reports on the upcoming leadership transition in UMaine’s athletics department.  Athletic Director Blake James will leave on Sept. 7, having accepted a senior associate athletic director’s job at the University of Miami.  President Kennedy is working toward appointing an interim AD, and a national search for James’ replacement will get underway […]

UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Kate McCarthy will present a Preserving the Harvest workshop on Aug. 25 in Farmington.  Wednesday’s Lewiston Sun Journal includes a brief preview story with registration information.

The Republican Journal reports the Bridge in a Backpack technology developed by UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center will be deployed at a bridge site near the intersection of Herrick Road and Perkins Road in Belfast, Maine. The bridge will be the third in Maine built using the technology.

Steven Barkan, a UMaine sociology professor, discusses with the Bangor Daily News his work with an open-source publisher to keep down the costs of his next textbook. Textbook costs have gone up faster than inflation, he says in the article. Richard Young, manager of the UMaine Bookstore, comments in the story on textbook rental programs.

Contact: Julie Gosse, (207) 581-4833 ORONO — In continuing research on the effects of arsenic on mast cells, which help regulate the body’s immune system and organ function, University of Maine biochemist Julie Gosse and a team of student researchers have found a new correlation. Using biochemical, molecular and cellular techniques, Gosse and her students […]

Wired Magazine’s Geekdad blog highlights UMaine New Media Professor Jon Ippolito, whose blog Legohacker celebrates what he calls “creative misuse” — in this case, showcasing his son’s use of  Star WarsLego  sets to create smaller but accurate Star Trek sets.

Tori Jackson of UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Androscoggin/Sagadahoc County office is quoted in a Lewiston Sun Journal report on the Maine agricultural harvest.  Jackson points out that the the early spring allowed farmers and gardeners to plant early and that favorable weather since has benefited several crops.  Barbara Murphy of Extension’s Oxford County office says that […]

Ann Sossong of the UMaine nursing faculty is quoted in a Portland Press Herald report about a new Dept. of Labor report on the nursing profession in Maine.  The report notes that the profession has been growing “slowly” in Maine since 2004, and that some 3,000 more will be needed by 2016.  Sossong points out […]

UMaine political science professor Mark Brewer provided comment for a Portland Press Herald story on the latest poll measuring public support for Maine’s gubernatorial candidates.