University of Maine students, looking for relief from final exam stress, have been visiting with therapy dogs this week at Folger Library, reports WABI (Channel 5). Therapy dogs will be back at the library for another two-hour session from noon to 2 p.m. Monday, Dec. 12.
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The Bangor Daily News announced results of a citywide “livability” survey were released Wednesday in a preliminary report, closing the first phase of a project to improve Bangor’s living environment for residents of all ages. Members of the Bangor Livable Communities Committee gathered to review the report, which was presented by staff from the University […]
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Members of the University of Maine group Male Athletes Against Violence are handing out white ribbons to men on campus this week, reports WABI (Channel 5). The White Ribbon Campaign asks men on campus to wear white ribbons as a symbol of their pledge to never commit, condone nor remain silent about violence against women.
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NBC Los Angeles reported on the recent expansion of the University of Maine’s Flagship Match financial aid program to California. UMaine’s Flagship Match is a competitive scholarship program that guarantees academically qualified, first-year students from several states will pay the same tuition and fee rate as their home state’s flagship institution. The program, which was […]
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WABI (Channel 5) attended a meeting of the University of Maine student group Engineers Without Borders. Members of the group gathered at the Foster Center for Student Innovation for their final weekly meeting before their upcoming trip to Ecuador. From Dec. 16 through Jan. 11, four student members and one mentor will embark on a […]
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Ali Abedi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on the Pulse Morning Show (WZON AM 620). Abedi, director of the Wireless Sensing Laboratory (WiSe-Net Lab) on campus, spoke about the scheduled space launch of the wireless leak detection system he developed with other UMaine researchers […]
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University of Maine media historian and journalism professor Michael Socolow writes in the Columbia Journalism Review that news outlets covering the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor displayed some of the same bad habits that still plague journalism today. “A look back at the reporting on Pearl Harbor,” writes Socolow in CJR, “shows how little has […]
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University of Maine paleoecologist and plant ecologist Jacquelyn Gill told Business Insider that NASA data on Earth’s climate provides a critical baseline of comparison, as she and other researchers study climate change over millions of years. Last month, Bob Walker, an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, told The Guardian newspaper that the incoming administration was […]
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In a story celebrating National Brownie Day, the Portland Press Herald noted it was former University of Maine instructor Mildred Brown “Brownie” Schrumpf who contended, for years, that Maine invented the yummy dessert. Over her roughly 70-year career, Schrumpf, who died in 2001 at age 98, taught home economics at UMaine and camp cookery to […]
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Morning Ag Clips and Seacoast Online reported applications are now being accepted for the 2017 University of Maine Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteer training programs in York and Cumberland counties. Morning Ag Clips reported the Cumberland County sessions, which begin Feb. 3 in Falmouth, will place on 16 consecutive Friday afternoons. A Master Gardener is […]
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