The Bangor Daily News reported the University of Maine publicly identified four finalists for the position of vice president for academic affairs and head of campus at the University of Maine at Machias (UMM). Candidates will visit the Orono and Machias campuses during the next few weeks, according to the article. The candidates are Richard […]
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Amy Fried, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in The American Prospect article, “How Maine’s Medicaid expansion campaign got to yes.” Mainers voted 59 to 41 percent to expand Medicaid, making Maine the first state to approve Medicaid expansion at the ballot box. Both the turnout and the margin of […]
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The Associated Press, Fiddlehead Focus, WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle), WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported a new potato variety developed by the Maine Potato Board and University of Maine was once again available at the Maine Harvest Festival in Bangor. The Caribou Russet was made available to consumers for the first […]
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Maine Public spoke with University of Maine adjunct associate professor of psychology Jonathan Borkum about his latest research that theorizes migraine attacks may be the body’s natural way of protecting and repairing itself from toxins in the brain. Borkum said migraine symptoms may have a restorative purpose, to relieve the brain from what he calls […]
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Ngo Vinh Long, a professor of history at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Politico article, “Why Vietnam loves Trump.” According to the Pew Research Center, Vietnam is among seven out of 37 surveyed countries where a majority of the population says they like Donald Trump. A reported 58 percent of Vietnamese told […]
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Mark Wells, a marine biology professor at the University of Maine, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for the article, “Maine plans swifter protocols for shellfish monitoring.” A toxic bloom of Pseudo-nitzschia, a common phytoplankton, closed hundreds of miles of Maine coastline to shellfish harvesting this fall and caused a recall of 58,500 pounds of […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in an Associated Press article about the state’s wild blueberry harvest. The crop fell sharply this summer to land below 100 million pounds for the first time in four years, according to the article. Preliminary industry figures show the crop coming in at about 65 million pounds, said Nancy […]
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The Portland Press Herald published an opinion piece by Elyse DeFranco titled, “Americans will get a Cuban education.” DeFranco is pursuing graduate studies in human dimensions of wildlife conservation at the University of Maine.
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The Washington Post published an opinion piece by Carter Hathaway titled, “The surprising origins of reality TV.” Hathaway is a graduate student in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Maine.
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Jon Ippolito, a new media professor at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a Slate article about online-only shows and viewers being at the mercy of streaming platforms. Experts have proposed strategies for saving all sorts of corporate-owned digital content, including TV, the article states. Ippolito, who is director of the digital curation graduate […]
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