Gabriel Frey and Suzanne Greenlaw strive to honor the tradition, celebrate the present and preserve the future of basketmaking. And the husband and wife will be selling baskets at the 22nd annual Maine Indian Basketmakers Holiday Market on Saturday, Dec. 10, in the Hudson Museum at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University […]
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The Associated Press cited Brian Olsen, an associate professor of biology and ecology at the University of Maine, in a report about the possible extinction of the saltmarsh sparrow. The Connecticut Audubon Society released a report announcing many birds in the state are suffering steady population declines because of a loss of nesting areas, and […]
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The University of Maine’s Office of the Vice President for Research and Fogler Library will host “Grants 101: Seeking, analyzing and writing basics” 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Dec. 7 in Fogler’s Library Classroom. Workshop participants will be able to find grants in PIVOT, analyze an agency’s request for proposals and learn grant writing basics. […]
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University of Maine climatologist George Denton’s decades of research on the role the Southern Hemisphere plays in climate change were highlighted this week in a story by Medill Reports Chicago, part of the Medill News Service at Northwestern University’s Graduate School of Journalism. “We as humans have reached 7 billion and we are living in […]
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The National Endowment for the Humanities published an article about the Historical Atlas of Maine and the several awards it has received. The folio has earned four publication awards, including the 2016 Globe Book Award from the Association of American Geographers, the largest professional organization of geographers in the world, according to the article. Other […]
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A 2011 waste characterization study by the University of Maine School of Economics was cited in a Bangor Daily News article about the decline of trash at Bar Harbor’s College of the Atlantic. Every fall, one week’s worth of trash and recycling generated at the college is collected, sorted and displayed so students and others […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the recipients of the Research and Creative Activities Fellowships for 2016–17. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research and creative activities, and are supported through the office of the Vice President for Research. Each fellowship provides a […]
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The SandPaper, a news magazine based in Surf City, New Jersey, cited research by Michael Socolow, a professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, in the article, “Were newspapers in on ‘War of Worlds’ hoax?” The article looked at the overblown reports of panic following Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast of “War […]
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Eight University of Maine students from a variety of disciplines will have five minutes each to present their sustainability projects on Nov. 21. The “Sustainability Lightning Talks” will begin at 3 p.m. in Norman Smith Hall, Room 107. Students will give details of their specific research related to a larger group project. The projects cover […]
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Marcella Sorg, an anthropologist and research professor with the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, was mentioned in the Bangor Daily News article, “‘One person a day is dying’ in Maine, drug overdose numbers surpass 2015.” With 286 drug overdose deaths in Maine as of September, the state has already exceeded […]
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