University of Maine police are investigating the theft of catalytic converters from at least nine cars parked in campus lots last weekend, reported WLBZ (Channel 2) and the Associated Press. “What these individuals do, they go underneath the car and saw these things off and then go,” Roland LaCroix, UMaine chief of police, told the […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on Senior Companion, a volunteer program at the University of Maine Center on Aging that provides companionship to isolated, elderly residents. The program has 85 volunteers who visit roughly 350 seniors a week in their homes. Volunteers get a small stipend of $2.65 an hour, plus 30 cents per mile […]
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Charles Armstrong, a cranberry specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with Maine Public for a report about the state’s cranberry harvest. Maine’s cranberry harvest appears to be strong, despite fears over drought conditions, according to the report. Armstrong said growers across the state have had to irrigate crops to stay ahead of […]
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Lenard Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging and professor in the UMaine School of Social Work, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Making Bangor age-friendly will improve life for residents of all ages.” Kaye is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, […]
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The Maine Edge published a review of the University of Maine School of Performing Arts production of “Big Love.” The play by Charles Mee is adapted from the ancient Greek play “The Suppliant Women” by Aeschylus, according to the article. The show, directed by Tom Mikotowicz, runs through Oct. 30 at Hauck Auditorium on the […]
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Orono leaders decided in July to move the town’s voting booths to the University of Maine’s New Balance Field House, the Bangor Daily News reported. “Orono has relocated its polling place to accommodate the volume of people expected,” Town Clerk Shelly Crosby told the newspaper on Wednesday. “We anticipate there is going to be a […]
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USA Today quoted Michael Day, an associate research professor of tree physiology and physiological ecology at the University of Maine, in a report about fall foliage. According to Day, vibrant fall colors occur when three factors come together: the days get shorter, dry weather prevails, and the temperature drops.
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Robert Steneck, a professor at the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, spoke this week to members of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) at the beginning of their annual meeting in Bar Harbor, the Mount Desert Islander reported. Steneck “gave an entertaining overview of commercial fisheries in the Gulf of Maine, and […]
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Amy Fried, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on the Scholar Strategy Network’s podcast, No Jargon. In the episode “Polls, Polls, Polls,” she discusses how polling methods have changed over the past 100 years.
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The BBC reported on Gordon Hamilton’s strong ties to his native Scotland in a story on the climate scientist’s death in Antarctica. Hamilton was born in Dundee, Scotland’s fourth-largest city. A statement from the scientist’s family, quoted in the BBC piece, noted that Hamilton’s interest in geography began while he was attending school in the […]
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