The Bangor Daily News covered the Saturday lecture by equal pay pioneer Lilly Ledbetter at the annual Maine NEW Leadership conference Saturday at the University of Maine. Mary Cathcart, a Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center senior policy fellow and co-director of the event, was interviewed for the story. She said women still need to be […]
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University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for a Kennebec Journal article profiling Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Benjamin Pollard of Portland. Brewer said among Pollard’s immediate goals should be establishing name recognition, given his limited political experience. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Channel 5 (WABI) aired a report on the high-altitude balloon launch over the weekend by several University of Maine engineering students and some from Bangor High School. The experiment was funded by the Maine Space Grant Consortium with support from NASA. Electrical and computer engineering professor Rick Eason was interviewed for the report. He said […]
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The Maine NEW Leadership program, a University of Maine initiative that aims to educate and empower women to become civic and political leaders, will be held June 1-6 on the UMaine campus and also in locations in Augusta and Skowhegan. Twenty-nine undergraduate college women will participate in the intensive residential training program targeting the next […]
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A UMaine School of Economics study concludes that as much as 60 percent of what’s thrown away could be composted and recycled.
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Corey Conner’s favorite academic experiences have come at the local level, where she is able to pursue her studies in an area hospital. In her experiences as a member of the UMaine track and field team, however, Conner is making an impact at an international level.
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More than 200 students and science teachers from Bangor, John Bapst, Old Town, Mount View and Sumner Memorial high schools who have been conducting research on mercury in local watersheds will present and explain their findings at a poster session at John Bapst High School in Bangor at 9 a.m. on Friday, May 25. The […]
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University of Maine music professor and pianist Phillip Silver will be joined May 29-31 by fellow music faculty member and cellist Noreen Silver and acclaimed violinist and music professor Solomia Soroka of Goshen College in Indiana for a CD recording of music from the German-Jewish composer Bernhard Sekles. Sekles was an influential pedagogue who founded […]
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New evidence suggests that Atlantic cod may have the ability to affect entire food webs in both benthic and pelagic marine ecosystems.
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UMaine campus to feature works from Taiwan, New Zealand and Maine artists.
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