UMaine News

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 […]

A Village Soup story notes that Paul Holman of the UMaine political science faculty will give the fall and winter season opening talk for the 2011 Camden Conference.  Holman’s presentation, “The Kremlin in Asia,” is scheduled for Tuesday Sept. 14, 6:30-8 p.m. at the Belfast Free Library.  The conference them for 2011 is “The Challenges […]

Comments from UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer were featured in a Wednesday Maine Public Radio story about the race for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District seat.  Incumbent U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud faces a challenge from Republican challenger Jason Levesque.

Todd Gabe of the UMaine School of Economics faculty spoke on Wednesday morning with WVOM radio’s Ric Tyler and George Hale, discussing his research paper about the potential economic impact of a casino in Maine’s Oxford County.  Maine’s electorate will vote on a proposal on that issue in November.

UMaine hazing experts Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden were interviewed for a Tuesday WUSF radio segment based on the Florida investigation into alleged hazing involving a University of South Florida fraternity.  Allan and Madden shared perspectives from their research, which includes the most extensive survey of college hazing behaviors that has ever been conducted.