News Center Maine, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) covered the fourth annual University of Maine Student Symposium April 10 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. Hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students presented their research findings in the arts, health care, science, engineering, education and other topics to more than 1,000 attendees. “Basically […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported four student-athletes are among this year’s Outstanding Graduating Students at the University of Maine. Vincent Eze, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was named the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Education and Human Development. The child development and family relations and sociology double major is a forward on the men’s […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot reported four generations of the Davee family received the Fogler Legacy Award at the University of Maine Alumni Association’s annual Alumni Achievements Awards dinner April 5. The Davee family has forged paths in engineering and other fields, and become engaged members of the UMaine community well beyond graduation, the article states. […]
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Morning Ag Clips, Maine Public and the Associated Press cited research by Eleanor Groden, a professor of entomology at the University of Maine, in articles about the expected spread of browntail moths in Maine this spring. The pest defoliates native oaks, cherries and hawthornes, as well as apple, crabapple and several other deciduous trees, and […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot and Republican Journal reported registration is open for the World Climate Negotiations from 5–8 p.m. May 9 at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The free, interactive simulation will be led by Anna McGinn and Will Kochtitzky, UMaine graduate students who attended the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in […]
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The New York Times published a letter to the editor by Steven Barkan, a professor of sociology at the University of Maine. In the letter, Barkan responded to a Times article about the politics surrounding the death penalty.
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The Ellsworth American and Bangor Daily News covered the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s fifth Masterworks concert of the 2018–19 season on April 7. The concert was a celebration of American composers, according to the articles. The event also was the symphony’s annual collaboration with the University Singers and Oratorio Society, two University of Maine groups, and “the […]
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The Associated Press quoted Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias, in articles about new harvest rules for Maine’s clam industry. Maine is the country’s leading producer of soft-shell clams, but the harvest has fallen in recent years — 2017 and 2018 had the lowest harvest for any […]
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The Conversation published an opinion piece by Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine. The piece is titled “Fox News isn’t the problem, it’s the media’s obsession with Fox News.” The San Francisco Chronicle carried The Conversation piece. The National Interest republished the piece with a different headline: […]
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The County covered a talk about climate change and the last ice age by Aaron Putnam, the George H. Denton Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Putnam spoke at the Geological Society of Maine’s annual spring meeting on April 5 at the University of Maine at Presque Isle […]
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