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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The Bangor Daily News covered a public hearing on traffic safety concerns, where Route 2 in Orono intersects with the Rangeley Road entrance to the University of Maine campus. Construction on a new roundabout, designed to make the intersection safer, is not scheduled to begin until early 2018. According to the paper, Danny Williams, executive […]
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The New York Times remembered the life and work of University of Maine climate scientist Gordon Hamilton, after his death in a snowmobile accident in Antarctica. In an appreciation, published in the newspaper’s Dot Earth blog, science writer Andrew C. Revkin wrote, “In probing the fast-changing ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, Gordon Hamilton of […]
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CNBC spoke with Bob Bayer, director of the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute, for a story on the surging demand for lobster in the U.S. and abroad. “Lobster demand usually follows the stock market and general economy,” Bayer said. “When the economy is good, lobster demand is good.” The story also notes one of the […]
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