The Portland Press Herald features a story about “St. John Valley Creative Economy Project – Strengthening Our Communities and Economy Through Culture and Place,” a new report from UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. St. John Valley-based cultural development specialist Sheila Jans wrote the report. She is quoted extensively in the Press Herald report.
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Contact: Kathryn Jovanelli (207) 561-3350 High resolution digital images available upon request BANGOR — Three new exhibitions will open at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor on Friday Oct. 8. Pablo Picasso: The Passionate Print, Selections from the Museum Collection October 8 – December 30, 2010 Picasso’s virtuosity as a printmaker […]
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A news release from Congressman Michaud’s office, announcing an event at the UMaine Museum of Art Contact: Ed Gilman, 202-225-6306 WASHINGTON, DC – At the invitation of Congressman Mike Michaud, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will be conducting free grant workshops in Maine later this month in an effort to raise awareness of […]
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An article about Purdue University’s Hazing Prevention Week in the online version of the Journal and Courier of Lafayette, Indiana, cites the research of UMaine professors Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden in the National Study on Student Hazing. Allan and Madden found 55 percent of college students involved in clubs, teams, and organizations experience hazing […]
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Margaret “Miki” Macdonald, a 1998 graduate of the UMaine School of Nursing’s master’s degree program, will be at the White House Tuesday, September 28, to meet with First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Mary Wakefield, the administrator of the Health Resources Service Administration, to talk about the Affordable Care Act. Macdonald, who is the Maine […]
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Maine Public Radio broadcast a Monday story featuring Prof. Robert Steneck of the UMaine School of Marine Sciences discussing his new research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Working with a series of international collaborators, Steneck is calling for dramatic changes, based on a Chilean model, in the ways in which […]
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UMaine Cooperative Extension nutrition and physical activity expert Kate Yerxa was interviewed Tuesday morning on WZON-FM (103.1), discussing strategies for healthy eating under constrained finances.
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Contact: Steve Evans, (207) 581-3818 ORONO — Poet and former UMaine graduate student Rachel Perry will receive the University of Maine-based National Poetry Foundation’s first annual Millay Prize for Poetry at a ceremony and reading Thursday, Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Soderberg Auditorium in Jenness Hall. Internationally acclaimed poet and essayist Ann Lauterbach, who […]
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Nory Jones and Harold Daniel of the University of Maine’s Maine Business School offered comments for a Sept. 26 Bangor Daily News article about the importance of high-speed broadband access to business and tourists in Maine.
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Contact Catherine Schmitt, 207-944-1587 PORTLAND, Me – As waterfront advocates from around the United States convene here this week at a national symposium on working waterways and waterfronts, the City Council is considering whether or not to change Portland’s waterfront zoning, and Maine citizens are six weeks away from voting on a new $9.75 million […]
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