UMaine in the News

Media report on MTI funds awarded to UMaine Composites Center

Mainebiz and Morning Sentinel reported on the Maine Technology Institute’s four new awards from its Cluster Initiative Program. The grants, totaling $1.2 million, were awarded to collaborative projects that boost Maine’s high-potential, technology-enabled clusters — the Agriculture, Aquaculture, Fisheries and Food Production cluster and Maine’s Composites and Advanced Materials cluster. The awards leveraged $1.42 million […]

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Kaye quoted in BDN article on quality of life for older Mainers

Lenard Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging and professor in the UMaine School of Social Work, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for the article, “Older Mainers thriving despite low levels of personal satisfaction, study shows.” A recent survey developed by Gallup and Healthways ranks Maine 20th in the nation in […]

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Silka writes BDN op-ed about constant change

Linda Silka, a senior fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Change is a constant. Here’s what we should all know about it.” Silka is a social and community psychologist. She also is a member of […]

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Grad student, artist featured in Yale Climate Connections

Yale Climate Connections published an article on Jill Pelto, a graduate student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine. Pelto creates environmental artwork as a way to communicate scientific data related to climate change. Pelto grew up immersed in nature and always loved to make art, according to the […]

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Palmer quoted in Press Herald article on contrast between Collins, Trump

Kenneth Palmer, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Portland Press Herald article, “Collins draws contrast with Trump on Russia, Affordable Care Act.” In a conversation with the Portland Press Herald editorial board, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins spoke about topics that highlighted her disagreements with President-elect Donald […]

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BDN cites Mortelliti in blog post on ermine in Bangor woods

The Bangor Daily News interviewed Alessio Mortelliti, an assistant professor in the University of Maine Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Conservation Biology, for a post on its “Act Out with Aislinn” wilderness adventure blog. The post recounts the story of a Bangor woman, who came upon what she thought were two squirrels fighting on a […]

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