Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the New York Times article, “Marijuana legalization in New England is stalled by opiate crisis.” Legal marijuana advocates are looking to New England to aid efforts to expand legalization nationwide, according to the article, but the largely liberal region is struggling […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “Have a Maine problem? A UMaine student researcher can work on a solution,” by Jack McLachlan, a master’s student in ecology and environmental sciences and the vice president of the Graduate Student Government at UMaine. McLachlan researches the tidal freshwater wetlands of Merrymeeting Bay in the Kennebec […]
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Boothbay Register reported Heather Leslie, director of the University of Maine Darling Marine Center (DMC), will be the guest speaker at the Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission’s fifth annual meeting on Wednesday, April 27 at the center in Walpole. Leslie will speak about the changing coastal ocean observed by DMC researchers and area residents, and […]
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VillageSoup reported that starting in May, the Maine Coast Heritage Trust and University of Maine Cooperative Extension will host a six-month session of Kids Can Grow at Erickson Fields in Rockport. The youth gardening program introduces children and parents to growing vegetables and herbs to produce healthy food.
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The University of Maine was mentioned in the Mainebiz article, “Startups in Maine need to more quickly become mid-sized companies.” The Maine Development Foundation’s newly released “Measures of Growth 2016” report states Maine’s total percentage of gross domestic product spent for R&D in 2011 was $535 million, which is about 1 percent of the state’s […]
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The Ellsworth American reported Brandon Aponte of Brooklin won the Bay Chamber Concerts’ 2016 Young Stars of Maine Program for violin, which includes a $1,000 scholarship. Aponte studies violin with University of Maine music professor Anatole Wieck and is a freshman at John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, according to the article. He will […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) covered the University of Maine’s final Accepted Student Day for students enrolling in fall 2016. A record attendance was expected at the event, as nearly 2,400 prospective students and their family members had preregistered to be on campus for a day of presentations and tours. “As for confirmation […]
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The Associated Press reported Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist at the University of Maine, will speak April 19 at the Merryspring Nature Center in Camden about how scientists are looking to the past for clues about threats to modern biodiversity. The assistant professor in the School of Biology and Ecology and the Climate Change Institute will […]
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WABI (Channel 5) interviewed Aaron Putnam, the George H. Denton Assistant Professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, about his ice age research and being awarded one of most prestigious grants for an early-career scientist. In May, Putnam will take the reins of a $591,000 Faculty Early Career […]
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Richard Judd, the McBride Professor of History at the University of Maine, was featured on an episode of “Bill Green’s Maine” on WLBZ (Channel 2) and WCSH (Channel 6 in Portland). Judd spoke about 1816, which is referred to as the “Year Without a Summer,” and took Green to Special Collections in UMaine’s Fogler Library […]
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