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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The Associated Press reported the National Science Foundation has awarded more than $1 million to the University of Maine for several research projects involving energy, Earth science and education. Republican Sen. Susan Collins and independent Sen. Angus King, who announced the grants in a joint news release, said the funds will help students and researchers […]
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The Bangor Daily News cited Charles Scontras, a historian and research associate at the University of Maine’s Bureau of Labor Education, in the article, “LePage’s pay raise offer sways biggest state union to accept ‘right to work’ contract language.” In exchange for a 6 percent pay increase over the next two years, negotiators for the […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, for the article, “How Maine can be in a drought, even during record rainfall.” Birkel said drought conditions can spring up relatively quickly, whereas the trend of increasing precipitation is borne […]
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