Kristen Vekasi, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and School of Policy and International Affairs at the University of Maine, spoke with Maine Public for a story titled “Maine and Canada’s highly integrated lobster industries may face impacts under potential tariffs.”
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The Portland Press Herald referenced historical documents digitized and archived by the University of Maine Raymond H. Fogler Library’s Special Collections Department. The collection includes personal financial papers of a wholesale grocer in Portland.
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The Ellsworth American reported that University of Maine School of Performing Arts professors Scott Cleveland and Dan Barrett will perform alongside vocalist Ann Delaney as The Time Travel Trio, a three-part series opening in Steuben with later stops in Searsport and Blue Hill. “The inspiration behind forming The Time Travel Trio was the recent availability […]
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WFVX (FOX22/ABC7) reported that UMaine fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon raised over $20,00 to support Grady Gobeil, a member who had been diagnosed with 3A metastatic cancer a few months ago. The fraternity started a GoFundMe to help offset medical costs that took off on social media. Gobeil is in his final week of chemotherapy and […]
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News Center Maine, WABI (Channel 5) and Spectrum News Maine covered the 2025 U.S.-Canada Lobster Town Meeting in Bar Harbor organized by the University of Maine Lobster Institute. The conference was created to encourage bilateral interaction and conversation about the lobster industry. This year’s discussions focused on the ocean’s changing ecosystems, industry data and management […]
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News Center Maine interviewed University of Maine senior research associate Ellisa Ballman; Allison Gardner, associate professor of arthropod vector biology; and Jessica Leahy, professor of human dimensions at the UMaine School of Forest Resources. They are participating in a study that aims to understand how invasive forest plants play a role in tick populations, which […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Sean Birkel, assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute (CCI), on record high temperatures in the state during 2024. “We had a warmer than usual spring, a record hot June marked by a heatwave and very high overnight temperatures, and a record hot fall,” said Birkel, who […]
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Maine Public and WGME (CBS 13 in Portland) interviewed Janet Fairman, associate professor at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, on Maine’s K-12 student results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, NAEP or The Nation’s Report Card, and her research on the state’s education policy. Fairman said Maine’s localized education […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a column by Kristen Vekasi, associate professor at the University of Maine’s Department of Political Science and School of Policy and International Affairs, titled “Trump, trade, and immigration: What might be in store for Maine?”
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WFVX (FOX 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) interviewed University of Maine assistant professor of economics Kelsi Hobbs on how to avoid lies in statistics from studies and surveys. “There are a few different things that we can focus on, one is a sample, the second is the size of the sample and the third is how […]
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