Mark Brewer told the Portland Press Herald that gubernatorial campaign finance report numbers can be informative, but that “money doesn’t equal votes by any means.” The University of Maine political science professor said financial reports can help candidates build momentum and reflect a serious commitment to invest in themselves. “Someone like Shawn Moody, who hasn’t […]
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Judith Rosenbaum, assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism, discussed the role of Twitter in politics and how it’s changing political discourse and impacting social movements on Maine Public’s Maine Calling. Rosenbaum, who authored “Constructing Digital Cultures: Tweets, Trends, Race, and Gender,” said Twitter provides a platform for people whose voices have traditionally […]
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University of Maine professors Mark Brewer and Judith Rosenbaum were quoted in the Boston Globe article, “In Maine, is GOP linked to flurry of anonymous attacks?” Some Maine Democrats believe fake news posted on a conservative website and shared by the Republican Party tainted Lewiston’s mayoral race, according to the article. The right-wing websites Maine […]
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WABI (Channel 5), Bangor Daily News and WVII (Channel 7) reported on the 2018 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast Celebration held at the University of Maine. Co-sponsored by the Greater Bangor Area NAACP and the UMaine Division of Student Life, the event featured a keynote by Maine state Rep. Craig Hickman, Winthrop. Hickman talked […]
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Jessica Leahy, a professor of human dimensions of natural resources at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Newsradio WGAN’s “Positively Maine” radio show. Leahy discussed the School of Forest Resources, forestry students, legacy planning for older landowners, wood banks and other projects that have had a positive effect on Maine’s family forests.
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The Portland Press Herald reported the recent cold temperatures in Maine could tamp down insect populations that threaten backyard landscapes and woodlands, according to entomologists and tree experts. Jim Dill, a pest management specialist at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, said the devastating winter moth and hemlock woolly adelgid — and possibly the browntail […]
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Catharine Biddle, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on the state’s teacher shortage, particularly in areas such as special education and world languages.
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University of Maine student J. William Somes wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Climate change is burning a hole in our pocketbooks.” Somes is studying economics and political science and also is a student in the Honors College.
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Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, wrote an analysis for Columbia Journalism Review about the media reaction to Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury.”
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The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine was mentioned in the Gizmodo report, “Switzerland outlaws boiling lobsters alive.” New Swiss regulations will require food preparers to stun or mechanically destroy a lobster’s brain before immersing it in boiling water, according to the article. The Lobster Institute at UMaine suggests that a lobster’s nervous system […]
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