Mark Brewer, political science professor at the University of Maine, was a featured guest on the Halifax City News podcast The Todd Veinotte Show discussing United States politics, including the State of the Union and the debt ceiling.
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Michael Socolow, associate professor in the University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism, was featured on The Assignment with Audie Cornish, a CNN podcast, about the history of boxing, violence in sports and the future of the NFL. “What do you do when the population might have issues with the violence you’re providing to […]
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The Maine Monitor featured the Advanced Structures and Composites Center’s (ASCC) 3D printer, which is the largest in the world, and interviewed ASCC Founding Executive Director Habib Dagher about UMaine’s growing reputation as a place where science and technology combine to create products that benefit society. “By working together we can make a difference, educate […]
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Mark Brewer, professor of political science at the University of Maine, was featured on Democracy Forum, a monthly radio program produced by League of Women Voters-Downeast in cooperation with WERU-FM. The episode discussed how rural states are over-represented in the federal government, and how that affects Maine.
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The Bangor Daily News, Mount Desert Islander and WMTW-TV (Channel 8 in Portland) featured a new University of Maine-led study that shows that parents raising children with serious mental illness and violent tendencies experience and express grief similar to those of children who have died, which informs how practitioners can help these caregivers cope with the […]
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MaineBiz reported that the Innovate for Maine Fellows Program at the Foster Center for Innovation at the University of Maine is looking to double the cohort size this year to around 50 fellows. “This is made possible by additional funding from the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan to address the challenges startups and small businesses […]
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In an article about offshore and onshore wind projects moving forward in Maine, Engineering News Record interviewed Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, about the U.S. Interior Department approving a 9,700-acre floating turbine research site in a deepwater federal tract in the Gulf of Maine last month. Dagher said […]
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The Lincoln County News reported that Heather Leslie, professor of marine science and director of the Darling Marine Center at the University of Maine, has been named a 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, one of the highest honors in the scientific community.
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The Saturday Evening Post spoke to John Daigle, professor of forest recreation management at the University of Maine, about the impact of the invasive emerald ash borer on Wabanaki basket making. Daigle conducts research into emerald ash borers, combining academic methods with indigenous expertise. “It’s such a strong part of people’s identity. The style of […]
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The Associated Press interviewed Rick Wahle, director of the Lobster Institute and professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, about the impact of the rules about the minimum and maximum sizes of lobsters potentially becoming stricter. Wahle said that changing the U.S. measurement standards gives lobsters more opportunity to reproduce, though the change […]
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