Ngo Vinh Long, a professor of history at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Politico article, “Why Vietnam loves Trump.” According to the Pew Research Center, Vietnam is among seven out of 37 surveyed countries where a majority of the population says they like Donald Trump. A reported 58 percent of Vietnamese told […]
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Mark Wells, a marine biology professor at the University of Maine, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for the article, “Maine plans swifter protocols for shellfish monitoring.” A toxic bloom of Pseudo-nitzschia, a common phytoplankton, closed hundreds of miles of Maine coastline to shellfish harvesting this fall and caused a recall of 58,500 pounds of […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in an Associated Press article about the state’s wild blueberry harvest. The crop fell sharply this summer to land below 100 million pounds for the first time in four years, according to the article. Preliminary industry figures show the crop coming in at about 65 million pounds, said Nancy […]
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The Portland Press Herald published an opinion piece by Elyse DeFranco titled, “Americans will get a Cuban education.” DeFranco is pursuing graduate studies in human dimensions of wildlife conservation at the University of Maine.
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The Washington Post published an opinion piece by Carter Hathaway titled, “The surprising origins of reality TV.” Hathaway is a graduate student in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Maine.
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Jon Ippolito, a new media professor at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a Slate article about online-only shows and viewers being at the mercy of streaming platforms. Experts have proposed strategies for saving all sorts of corporate-owned digital content, including TV, the article states. Ippolito, who is director of the digital curation graduate […]
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A 2012 study conducted by sociologists at the University of Maine and University of Minnesota was cited in the NBC News THINK opinion piece, “Netflix’s Margaret Atwood ‘Alias Grace’ series captures the Weinstein moment.” The series, based on Margaret Atwood’s 1996 novel about an Irish-Canadian immigrant maid convicted of the murder of her employer and […]
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WCSH (Channel 6 in Portland) and WLBZ (Channel 2) previewed the University of Maine’s inaugural “Framing Maine” conversation series. Popular Maine television personality and UMaine alumnus Bill Green will be the featured guest at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 9 in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall. Following the talk, Green will be interviewed by NPR […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Mount Desert Islander article about an MDI High School game development class. Four students are taking their love of video games and combining it with art and science, developing their own games in the classroom, according to the article. “The big goal is to take game players […]
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The Summer 2017 issue of Friends of Acadia Journal includes an article by Catherine Schmitt, communications director for Maine Sea Grant at the University of Maine. The article, “Rising seas at Acadia: Implications and strategies for a changing landscape,” looks at how researchers, park managers and conservationists are responding to the effects of sea-level rise […]
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