The Bangor Daily News included Downtown Bangor Public Humanities Day in a roundup of local events happening the weekend of Feb. 2–4. Saturday events will include cultural offerings such as Irish music, a workshop on oral history, a poetry reading and guided tours of the University of Maine Museum of Art, the article states.
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UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) interviewed Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, ahead of World Radio Day, which is Feb. 13. This year’s theme is “Radio and Sports.” Socolow, who is the author of “Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at […]
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Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was a recent guest on NEXT. The weekly radio show and podcast about New England is produced by WNPR in Hartford, Connecticut. In the Jan. 11 episode, “Going to the Well,” Birkel spoke about the difference between […]
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Education initiatives involving the University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias were mentioned in the Bangor Daily News article, “Maine awards $4.6M in latest push to spur schools to collaborate.” Maine is handing out 11 more grants aimed at encouraging new, creative models of school consolidation, according to the article. The Maine Department […]
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The Associated Press, Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, Mainebiz and WLBZ (Channel 2) reported OTM Holdings, LLC announced it had purchased a former pulp mill in Old Town to redevelop it into a wood fiber complex housing multiple tenants. The Press Herald reported the sale will save the complex from demolition by the liquidation […]
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The Sun Journal reported that Mahoosuc Pathways in Bethel is working to get people outside and active this winter. In November 2016, after learning the Nordic ski center at the Bethel Inn Resort was not going to open because the manager was leaving, local skiers, business owners and nonprofits rallied to create a plan to […]
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Garth Holman, a research associate in the School of Biology and Ecology at the University of Maine, spoke with National Geographic for the article, “First new species of temperate conifer tree discovered in more than a decade.” To determine whether the Ulleungdo hemlock deserved to be its own species, Holman examined samples. He found that […]
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Mary Walker, director of the University of Maine School of Nursing, was interviewed by WVII (Channel 7) about increasing enrollment to meet the state’s growing nurse shortage. “Maine is experiencing a shortfall in nurses that is going to deepen across the next five years until there are about 3,200 nurses short of what we need […]
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Talks made during the Maine Agricultural Trades Show by University of Maine Cooperative Extension faculty Glen Koehler and Alicyn Smart were the focus of the latest column in the Portland Press Herald “Maine Gardener” series. Koehler, a fruit-tree specialist who also studies climate, spoke about “Farmer Adaptation to Changing Weather.” Koehler used charts, maps and […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Piscataquis Observer article about the fifth year of Maine’s moose study. Recently, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife biologists and a helicopter-based aerial capture crew located, captured and collared 83 moose in northern and western Maine for the study. “Over the past four years, we have […]
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