Mount Desert Islander reported George Jacobson, professor emeritus of the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and the Climate Change Institute, will speak at Garland Farm in Bar Harbor at 4 p.m. July 27. Jacobson served as the state climatologist for several years, according to the article. His presentation will be based on […]
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Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) interviewed Neil Comins, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Maine, about the potential challenges space settlers could encounter. Comins discussed his latest book, “The Traveler’s Guide to Space: For One-Way Settlers and Round-Trip Tourists.” “I do believe that space is the next frontier, and we […]
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Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, wrote a guest column for the Hollywood Reporter titled, “It’s O.J. Simpson’s world; we’re just living in it.” CNN cited the column in the article, “O.J. Simpson hearing: A blast from media past.”
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CBS News cited statistics from the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine in a report about a blue lobster that was caught off the coast of New Hampshire near where the state borders Maine. According to the Lobster Institute, only about one in every 2 million lobsters is blue. The institute’s executive director, Bob […]
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The Associated Press reported on a new tool developed by University of Maine scientists that allows blueberry growers to learn how many bees they can expect to see around their fields. “BeeMapper” will be unveiled July 19 at Blueberry Hill Farm in Jonesboro as part of the UMaine Cooperative Extension’s annual Wild Blueberry Summer Field […]
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The Portland Press Herald, Maine Public, Bangor Daily News, Mainebiz, WVOM Voice of Maine, Philanthropy News Digest (PND), WCSH (Channel 6 in Portland), WABI (Channel 5) and WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) reported the Harold Alfond Foundation is giving a $7.5 million challenge grant to the University of Maine System for its new Portland-based graduate center. […]
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Seacoast Online reported on the 11th Beaches Conference held in Wells and hosted by the Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine. The conference, which is held every two years, was expanded this year to include New Hampshire, according to the article. “The focus of this conference is to bring the diverse […]
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The University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor was included in a Bangor Daily News article about a recent study that found the city’s nonprofit art and cultural organizations in 2015 generated $10 million in economic activity and created hundreds of full-time jobs. The study, completed by the Washington D.C. lobbyist group Americans […]
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Pennsylvania’s LancasterOnline cited a 2008 University of Maine study in the editorial, “A worthwhile step toward ending fraternity hazing, once and for all.” The study, which was conducted by researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden, found that 55 percent of the 11,000 college students who were sampled had experienced some form of hazing. Yet of […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, spoke with Public Radio International’s “The World” for the report, “Climate change research can be risky. But not doing it is even riskier.” Mayewski has led more than 50 expeditions to places including the Antarctic, Greenland, the Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau, and […]
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