Jennifer Crittenden, assistant director of the University of Maine Center on Aging, and Lisa Scofield, a graduate intern at the center, wrote an article for the Bangor Daily News titled, “If you’re taking care of your grandkid, you’re not alone. Here are 8 resources to help.” Grandfamilies — families where a grandparent has stepped in […]
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Elizabeth Allan, executive director of StopHazing.org and professor of higher education at the University of Maine, was cited in an Inside Higher Ed report on a recent hearing of the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. Allan provided expert testimony as part of the roundtable discussion, “Campus Safety: Improving Prevention and Response […]
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Research being conducted by Joel Tebbenkamp, a University of Maine Ph.D. student in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, was featured in the Bangor Daily News article, “Why are spruce grouse declining in the Northeast? Study aims to find out why,” by Bob Duchesne, vice president of Maine Audubon’s Penobscot Valley Chapter. The […]
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SSPP Blog, the weekly blog of the journal Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, cited a paper by David Hart, director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine. Hart’s article, “Mobilizing the power of higher education to tackle the grand challenge of sustainability: Lessons from novel initiatives,” was […]
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network spoke with Laura Rickard, an assistant professor of communication at the University of Maine, about her recent study on climate change communication. The research, which was published in the journal Global Environmental Change, aimed to determine if the perceived proximity of climate change can be manipulated to inspire engagement in […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the University of Maine’s Hudson Museum exhibit, “Wabanaki Portraits from the Indian Island School.” The exhibit features Andy Warhol-inspired photographic silkscreen self-portraits created by eighth-graders at the Indian Island School. Several Warhol pieces on loan from the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor also are included in the […]
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Tori Jackson, an associate professor of agriculture and natural resources with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was a recent guest on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on what it takes to make a living as a small farmer in Maine.
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University of Maine economist Philip Trostel spoke with Mount Desert Islander for an article about Bar Harbor’s Jackson Laboratory announcing it would raise its lowest wage for full-time workers to $15 per hour. Trostel said raising the starting wage will give the lab “the pick of the litter” when it comes to attracting workers, but […]
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The Maine Edge published a review of “4 Contemporary Sound Poets,” a new audio DVD produced at the University of Maine’s IMRC Center. The DVD includes sound poetry by Tomomi Adachi, a noted Japanese artist and performer; Owen Smith, a new media professor and director of the Intermedia MFA program at UMaine; Duane Ingalls, an […]
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Jim Settele, chief of staff at the University of Maine, and Mandela Fellow Dennis Munuve were recent guests on The Pulse Morning Show (WZON AM 620). Munuve, of Kenya, is one of 25 emerging public management leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa that are visiting UMaine for a six-week academic and leadership institute, sponsored by the U.S. […]
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