Kit Hamley, a graduate student at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was a recent guest on Falkland Islands Television. She spoke about her research on an extinct species of fox called the warrah. Using field and laboratory techniques, Hamley hopes to learn how and when the animal arrived in the Falklands. “It’s been […]
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The Bangor Daily News, WLBZ (Channel 2), WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported University of Maine senior Lee Jackson was one of 25 McDonald’s workers in the nation to be named Crew Person of the Year. Jackson is a political science major who also is pursuing a minor in Maine studies. In addition […]
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Linda Silka, a senior fellow at the University of Maine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, was mentioned in the Free Press article, “Departments of transportation team up with climatologists, engineers to address sea-level rise.” As the federal government moves forward with policy and funding to tackle impending sea-level rise, climatologists and engineers […]
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The Sun Journal reported efforts to bring the Top Gun entrepreneurship accelerator program to Lewiston-Auburn got a recent boost. Don Gooding, executive director of the Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development, said some of a recent $390,000 grant from the Economic Development Administration will be used to continue the work to bring the entrepreneurial program to […]
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Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, was quoted in the TODAY Food report, “Is your lobster fake? 5 ways to tell if your food is real.” The article cited a recently released report by Inside Edition accusing several restaurants across the country of using cheap seafood substitutes for […]
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The Sun Journal reported on a University of Maine Cooperative Extension video going viral more than five years since it was posted online. “How to Look for and Avoid Bedbugs in Hotel or Motel Rooms,” which was posted on the UMaine YouTube channel in October 2010, recently was picked up by Lifehacker, a daily weblog […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an article on older nontraditional students at the University of Maine. The feature focused on Lynn Pollard of Otis, a 51-year-old working toward a degree in anthropology in her first foray into higher education; and Charlie Hildebrant, a 47-year-old who owns a small landscape construction business in Dover-Foxcroft and is […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported on a lecture hosted by the Cohen Institute for Leadership & Public Service at the University of Maine. L. Sandy Maisel, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Colby College, spoke about the 2016 presidential election two days after the New Hampshire primary. Maisel, an internationally recognized expert on […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension educators Lois Berg Stack, David Yarborough and Kathy Hopkins were quoted in the Ellsworth American article, “Plants well equipped to deal with wacky winter weather.” Some perennials in Maine have been flowering far earlier than they should, due to the warmer-than-average winter, according to the article. “It’s all about the […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, spoke with WVII (Channel 7) about the role of gender bias in politics. A Vanderbilt University study found that even those who expressed views of feminism and gender neutrality struggle to associate women with leadership, according to the report. Brewer said even when someone […]
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