Jordan LaBouff, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News article about Native American-themed sports mascots. LaBouff has studied the impact of such mascots with recent UMaine graduate Andrew Tomer, a member of Penobscot Nation. “I think this is really a challenging issue because I 100 percent understand and […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald article on GO Logic, a Maine energy-efficient home building company, that aims to produce innovative wood-fiber insulating boards through its new subsidiary, GO Lab Inc. Joshua Henry, GO Lab’s president, is a chemist and materials engineer, and a former professor at UMaine. Later this […]
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A Bangor Daily News reporter published an article about her day as a counselor at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tanglewood 4-H Camp and Learning Center in Lincolnville. The article is part of a BDN series that spotlights important but often underappreciated summer work that occurs along the state’s midcoast. Tanglewood 4-H Camp was […]
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The Portland Press Herald published the opinion piece “Let the Stars and Bars stay forever furled in favor of the flag of the free,” by Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine.
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WVII (Channel 7) reported University of Maine researchers are concerned about the health of eastern white pine trees due to a native fungal pathogen that has increasingly damaged the trees throughout New England. The research team, led by William Livingston, associate director of the UMaine School of Forest Resources, and Kara Costanza, a Ph.D. candidate […]
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Amy Fried, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on voting rights and the debate over voter fraud.
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WVII (Channel 7) reported on the annual University of Maine Systemwide Aging Initiative Summer Workshop at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The state’s median age is 45 — the oldest in America — and Maine has the largest proportion of baby boomers, according to the UMaine Center on Aging. Recognizing mobility is critical as people […]
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Charles Scontras, a historian and research associate at the University of Maine’s Bureau of Labor Education, spoke with Maine Public for the report, “State employees union could drop ‘fair share’ fees in exchange for 6 percent raise.” Gov. Paul LePage has been a critic of organized labor, and has long tried to pass legislation to […]
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An episode of the podcast Outside/In, a production of New Hampshire Public Radio, focused on oyster shell middens along the banks of the Damariscotta River in Maine. Arthur Spiess of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission was interviewed for the podcast. Spiess is a co-principal investigator of a Maine Sea Grant-funded project investigating the development of […]
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The Boston Globe, WSB-TV (Channel 2 in Atlanta), NECN, WABI (Channel 5), WVII (Channel 7), WMTW8 , Bangor Daily News, The Free Press, Washington Post, and Pickens County Courier of South Carolina and reported University of Maine researchers and students from the school’s High Altitude Ballooning group will travel to Clemson, South Carolina to launch […]
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