The Maine Public Broadcasting Network spoke with Ann Acheson, a researcher at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, about the latest census data on Mainers living in poverty. Acheson said poverty data from the American Community Survey is important to pay attention to, but tends to underestimate the degree of […]
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Supporting Maine’s R&D capacity through workforce development, technology and science communication is the focus of the 2013 Maine EPSCoR State Conference at the University of Maine Sept. 30. The conference, which begins at 8 a.m., in Wells Conference Center, is free and open to the public. This year’s annual conference of Maine EPSCoR — an […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported a group of Japanese academics and University of Maine representatives visited Ocean Renewable Power Co. in Eastport to learn about the company’s pilot project that uses tides to produce electricity. The Japanese delegation also attended the Marine Energy International Symposium, a three-day conference held at UMaine.
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The Maine Folklife Center’s Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) Oral History Project, which includes 50 interviews with people associated with the start of MOFGA and the group’s Common Ground Country Fair, was mentioned in two more entries of the Portland Press Herald blog “The Root: Dispatches from Maine’s food sources,” following “PART ONE […]
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The latest entry in the Portland Press Herald blog “The Root: Dispatches from Maine’s food sources,” included a reference and link to the Maine Folklife Center’s Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) Oral History Project. The collection includes 50 interviews with people associated with the start of MOFGA and the group’s Common Ground Country Fair.
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Penobscot Bay Pilot included an article on cold-water coral research by Rhian Waller, an associate research professor in the School of Marine Sciences. Waller’s two-year project is titled “Cold Corals in Hot Water — Investigating the physiological responses of Antarctic coral larvae to climate change stress.”
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The Bangor Daily News published an opinion piece by Amy Blackstone, a sociology professor at the University of Maine, titled “Setting the record straight on 6 myths about childless adults.”
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Empowering female and minority high school students, their teachers and communities to create innovative solutions to the environmental problems related to stormwater management is the goal of a new three-year project at the University of Maine, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The more than $735,000 award from NSF’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) reported on University of Maine sociologist Amy Blackstone’s appearance on Katie Couric’s talk show ‘Katie.’ Blackstone, chair of UMaine’s Sociology Department, shared her research and personal experience about being a childfree adult.
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The Bangor Daily News, WLBZ (Channel 2) and Bloomberg Businessweek were among several news organizations to report on the Marine Energy International Symposium being held at the University of Maine. A delegation of 11 scientists and industry officials from Japan are visiting UMaine for the three-day conference on tidal power. The conference is a collaborative […]
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