The Portland Press Herald shared advice from Kathy Savoie, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator and professor, in an article about people who are hosting Thanksgiving for the first time. Savoie’s tips included remembering to remove the giblets and neck from the turkey cavity, delegating tasks, and saving the carving of the bird and […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, told The New York Times that Republican Maine governor Paul LePage may look to capitalize on his steadfast support for President-elect Donald Trump during the recent campaign. “This governor has a number of times proposed welfare reforms, aimed at fighting fraud, that were viewed […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece “Why talking politics on Thanksgiving could help us emerge from our political bubbles,” by Amy Blackstone, a sociology professor at the University of Maine. Blackstone is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the country to address […]
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The Maine Forest Products Council reports undergraduate enrollment in the University of Maine’s forestry program has more than doubled since 2008. UMaine has identified Forestry and the Environment as one of seven signature areas, where a combination of research and education has earned the university national and international distinction. “I chose forestry as a career […]
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University of Maine climatologist George Denton’s decades of research on the role the Southern Hemisphere plays in climate change were highlighted this week in a story by Medill Reports Chicago, part of the Medill News Service at Northwestern University’s Graduate School of Journalism. “We as humans have reached 7 billion and we are living in […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Maine artist Philip Frey about his art, career and current exhibit at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. “The obvious connection to painting is concentration,” said Frey, who has lived in Hancock since the mid-1990s. “Mindfulness helps me stay with the process of painting, and […]
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Mount Desert Islander published a review of “The Plants of Baxter State Park.” The guide includes scientific descriptions of 857 plant species documented in the park, organized with useful keys and illustrated with 2,000 color photos. Glen Mittelhauser, executive director for Maine Natural History Observatory, is lead author of the guide that was co-written with […]
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Nearly four decades after it began, a University of Maine program that brings women with international roots together for internationally themed lunches and presentations, is still going strong, the Bangor Daily News reports. Every month, roughly 40 women and children meet in the basement of the Church of Universal Fellowship in Orono to try international […]
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The National Endowment for the Humanities published an article about the Historical Atlas of Maine and the several awards it has received. The folio has earned four publication awards, including the 2016 Globe Book Award from the Association of American Geographers, the largest professional organization of geographers in the world, according to the article. Other […]
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WVII (Channel 7) spoke with Howard Segal, a history professor at the University of Maine, for a story on the Ku Klux Klan’s history in Maine. “While Maine didn’t have big cities in the 1920s, there was a march in Brewer of roughly 40,000 klansmen. And given the population of Maine in the 1920s, that’s […]
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