WVII (Channel 7) covered the April 14 basketball fundraiser event “Nets 4 Pets 4 Vets” held in Bangor. Organized by members of the University of Maine Business School’s MBS Corps and ROTC, the event involves a tournament and community dinner designed to raise money to provide service dogs for veterans. The tournament, officiated by the […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported students in the University of Maine Art Education Community Outreach (UMAECO) program are raising funds to support Gedakina, an indigenous-led nonprofit. The students have designed original imagery and printed it on T-shirts, which will be sold within the local community for $15 each. Gedakina’s mission is to strengthen and revitalize the […]
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In an article on the challenges surrounding Maine’s beech tree population, Down East magazine cited a paper by University of Maine researchers Arun Bose and Aaron Weiskittel, with Purdue University colleague Robert Wagner. The paper, published in The Journal of Applied Ecology, showed a population explosion of beech trees in the state over the past […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported on the “#safetywork” art exhibit that opened with an April 16 reception at the University of Maine’s IMRC Center featuring performance and works by local artists. The exhibit is the first to feature work by all female artists, according to WVII. Susan Smith, curator and a UMaine faculty member, told WVII […]
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WABI (Channel 5) interviewed Maine Business School professors Nory Jones, professor of management information systems, and John Mahon, professor of management, about their new book on veterans, titled “Knowledge Transfer and Innovation.” The co-authors discussed the stories from veterans that informed the book, encompassing leadership, knowledge and skills the veterans learned from combat and later […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an opinion piece by John Tjepkema, professor emeritus in the School of Biology and Ecology at the University of Maine. Tjepkema’s article is titled “It’s critical that we reduce our carbon footprints to slow our changing climate.”
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The Morning Sentinel reported on the annual Mud Meet held at Colby College in Waterville. The all-day competition featured events for singles, doubles and teams, where competitors rolled logs, used axes to chop through vertically and horizontally positioned chunks of wood, and used huge bucksaws on wooden beams, according to the article. Students from 10 […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on the third annual UMaine Student Symposium at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. The free event, which is part of Maine Impact Week, offered an opportunity for community members to meet more than 1,300 student researchers and scholars, see their posters and exhibits, hear their presentations, […]
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Mainebiz reported Husson University announced it will grant honorary doctorates to Susan J. Hunter, the University of Maine’s first woman president, and Peter G. Vigue, chairman of the board of Cianbro Cos. The honorary degrees will be conferred at Husson’s 119th annual commencement May 5 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, according to the […]
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Mary Ellen Camire, a fellow at the Institute of Food Technologists and a professor of food science and human nutrition in the School of Food and Agriculture at the University of Maine, was quoted in an NBC News BETTER article about risks posed by pesticides. The article was written in response to this year’s “Dirty […]
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