Contact: Renee Kelly, (207) 581-1401 or rwkelly@maine.edu Last May, four UMaine students arrived at the Eureka! Ranch in Cincinnati with high expectations of their impending summer internships at the invention and research think tank founded by UMaine alumnus Doug Hall. The experience turned out to be much more for students Dan Lafayette, Nate Wildes, Brian […]
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Thursday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about Wednesday’s Bangor Foreign Policy Forum talk by 1962 UMaine graduate F. William Smullen, director of national security studies at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Smullen served in the U.S. Army for 30 years, including a stint as chief of staff to former Secretary […]
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Amy Fried of the UMaine political science faculty will be a guest on the next edition of Maine Public Broadcasting’s “Maine Watch” television program. The subject will be the Maine gubernatorial race, with a focus on polling information and television commercials. The program airs Thursday Oct. 7 at 8 p.m., Friday Oct. 8 at 8:30 […]
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Comments from UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer were included in a Maine Public Radio story reporting that same-sex marriage is an issue in some Maine legislative races. Organizations opposed to such marriages are targeting certain incumbent legislators who voted for a Maine initiative that was ultimately defeated by the electorate last November.
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Mainebiz published a report based on “Knowledge in Cities,” a report co-authored by Todd Gabe of the UMaine School of Economics faculty. The report looks at the workforce in nearly 300 U.S. and Canadian studies and categorizes them according to 11 groups devised by the study’s authors. The study puts Portland in the “Thinking Region” […]
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The Bangor Daily News provided a review of the three exhibitions that will open at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor on Oct. 8. The story includes comments from George Kinghorn, the museum’s director. A Sept. 29 UMaine news release provides more information about the artists and the exhibitions.
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Several news organizations covered Tuesday’s UMaine gubernatorial forum, at which all five candidates for governor discussed higher education and other issues of statewide importance. Stories appear on the Web sites of the Portland Press Herald, WLBZ/WCSH and Bangor Daily News.
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Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty was quoted in a Maine Public Radio report looking at the independent gubernatorial candidacy of Kevin Scott, a business owner who lives in the Oxford County town of Andover. Brewer also commented in the MPBN profile of Republican nominee Paul LePage, who currently serves as Waterville’s mayor.
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Barbara Murphy of UMaine Cooperative Extension was featured in a Tuesday WLBZ/WCSH television report about whether it’s advisable or necessary to rake the leaves that fall on lawns during the fall. She says it’s a matter of personal preference, but that there does not seem to be any real advantage gained from nutrients that might […]
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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News includes a brief preview of a Thursday Oct. 14 UMaine lecture, “Faking Ancient Mesoamerican Art,” by Karen Olsen Brhuns, director of the Cihuatan-Las Marias Archaeological Project for the Fundacion Nacional de Arqueologia in El Salvador. The talk, part of UMaine’s observance of Maine Archaeology Month, is scheduled for the Bodwell Area […]
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