Jim McConnon, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics at UMaine, spoke with the Kennebec Journal for an article about the 38th annual Fall Holiday Arts and Craft Fair that was held in Augusta. McConnon, who studies small businesses with 1–5 employees, said these businesses make up more than a fifth […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in the Maine Public report, “Maine’s tightest races could be tipped by college students, doggedly working to get out the vote.” With a number of colleges, including UMaine and Bates College, in the state’s 2nd District, college students could be consequential in the race between Republican incumbent Rep. Bruce […]
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Ngo Vinh Long, a professor of Asian history at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Nikkei Asian Review article, “Vietnam party chief Trong formally named president.” Vietnamese lawmakers elected Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong as president, making him the first leader to hold both titles since the nation’s founder, Ho Chi Minh, […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, spoke with Maine Public for a report about independent U.S. Sen. Angus King seeking re-election this year. According to King, his opponents are helping his campaign as they come at him from both sides. “I am being criticized by one of my opponents for […]
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The Times Record published an article on research being conducted by Ellie Groden, a professor of entomology at the University of Maine. Groden is working to rid the state of the brown-tail moth, an invasive insect that is prevalent throughout the Midcoast. The caterpillars eat leaves and can defoliate and kill entire trees. The insect […]
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The Sun Journal reported Kalyn Bickerman-Martens will speak during the Androscoggin Beekeepers Club meeting Nov. 14 at West Auburn Congregational Church in Auburn. Bickerman-Martens, a Ph.D. candidate in ecology and environmental sciences at the University of Maine, will present, “The Maine Bumble Bee Atlas: A Multi-Year Citizen Science Project to Survey Bumble Bee Species in […]
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Ian Bricknell, a professor of aquaculture and founding director of the University of Maine’s Aquaculture Research Institute, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News article, “Fish food study floated by salmon farm foes challenged as ‘bad science.’” A national organization that strongly opposes siting a land-based salmon farm in Belfast has released an analysis that […]
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Maine Public aired the 2018 Senator George J. Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability as part of its “Speaking in Maine” program. For the first time, Sen. George J. Mitchell delivered the lecture at the University of Maine on Oct. 4. Drawing on his decades of work in public service and as a skilled negotiator, Mitchell’s talk, […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Forbes article about Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Zak Ringelstein. In Maine, Ringelstein is running against independent incumbent Angus King, elected in 2013, and 30-year-old Republican nominee Eric Brakey, according to the report. Maine political experts think it’s a long shot […]
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Mainebiz cited the 2017 Maine Aquaculture Economic Impact Report published by the University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute in an article about the Maine Department of Marine Resources denying a request by the town of Kittery to delay its decision on a proposed expansion of an oyster farm. In September, an application in Brunswick for […]
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