Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, told the Bangor Daily News a proposed $5 billion undersea power line proposal aimed at spurring development of a coastal wind farm in the Mid-Atlantic states is a great sign that private investors are interested in offshore wind efforts. Google, along with a group […]
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Len Kaye of UMaine’s Center on Aging was featured in an MPBN story about high rates of drug abuse among Maine senior citizens. Kaye said an upward trend of abuse is apparent in Maine, and that a class of anti-anxiety medications called benzodiazepines are a major culprit.
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WABI had a story about the Children’s Water Festival, a daylong event hosted by UMaine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research which seeks to introduce water issues to schoolchildren. More than 700 students in grades 4-6 had a chance to touch ocean critters, participate in a trivia game about water, and […]
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Comments from John Jemison of the UMaine Cooperative Extensoin faculty are included in a Portland Press Herald story about a biotech company’s efforts to gain approval for genetically altered salmon. Jemison, a water quality specialist who has extensively studied issues related to genetically engineered crops, provided some big-picture perspectives on these issues from his perspective […]
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer tells Maine Today Media (Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Central Maine Morning Sentinel) that the 2010 Maine gubernatorial campaign may be shaping up to be the most expensive in Maine history.
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a five year, $3.3 million grant awarded to UMaine in order to increase the number of female faculty in the STEM and social-behavioral science fields. The grant will create the Rising Tide Center, which will seek to define the practices that attract and support the retention of female faculty, […]
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The midcoast newspaper Village Soup has an article about a lecture series a Aarhus Gallery in Belfast that will include a reading of the works of UMaine professor emerita Elaine Ford. A creative writing and literature professor, Ford is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories, “The American Wife,” for which […]
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The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered issued a news release relative to wetlands issues on the University of Maine campus. UMaine has provided the following response to that news release: Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 University of Maine officials expressed appreciation today for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approach to helping the university manage […]
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Mary Ellin Logue, a faculty member and researcher in the College of Education and Human Development, provided perspectives on questions about the significance of rough play by boys for a recent MSNBC article on the topic. Logue also was featured in an extensive Radio Health Journal program interview on the same subject. The program was […]
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UMaine oceanographer Andrew Pershing is quoted in a National Public Radio story about the benefits of whales in the oceans. Pershing says research into whales’ role in moving nutrients from one part of the ocean to another is still unknown, but recent research into how whale excrement affects fish populations could get scientists to think […]
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