The University of Maine Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) was touted in a Mainebiz story for its collaboration with the Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership and Manufacturers Association of Maine to help area businesses recover during the pandemic. “COVID has put many manufacturers in a difficult situation. They wish to keep workers safe but still need to […]
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News Center Maine, Business Insider and FOX 22/WFVX Bangor reported that University of Maine and University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers are exploring how to detect and analyze airborne coronavirus droplets using a bioengineered membrane. The team, led by UMaine biomedical engineer Caitlin Howell and UMass Amherst chemical engineer Jessica Schiffman, seeks to develop a membrane […]
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The Free Press shared results of a study by University of Maine economists that indicated earnings for Maine restaurants and lodgings will drop by more than one-third from 2019 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Todd Gabe, a professor of economics, and Andrew Crawley, an assistant professor of regional economic development, predict that 2020 hospitality […]
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Sociology professor Steven Barkan penned a guest column about the Affordable Care Act that ran in the Bangor Daily News and the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. “The repeal of Obamacare will not make America great again,” wrote Barkan. “Instead it will once more put us at the mercy of insurance companies, and it will worsen many […]
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Melissa Maginnis, an assistant professor of microbiology at the University of Maine, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an editorial about Maine’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Maginnis leads the UMS Scientific Advisory Board.
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The Machias Valley News Observer interviewed Lenard Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging, in an article about how senior citizens can deal with mental health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Maintain daily contact. That’s the most important factor,” he said, adding that “I encourage everyone to take control of their life […]
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The Laramie Boomerang quoted Kristin Vekasi, an assistant professor of political science and policy and international affairs at the University of Maine, in the article titled “Growing tensions with China could affect land deal.” Vekasi was part of a National Press Foundation Webinar on global trade during coronavirus on July 7, 2020. Titled “Essential Ingredients: […]
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The Bangor Daily News included the Raymond H. Fogler Library at the University of Maine in a report about libraries in Maine archiving residents’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Matthew Revitt, special collections and Maine shared collection librarian, said he has been collecting revised syllabi from classes that went online, screenshots of web pages and […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Faye Gilbert, interim executive vice president of academic affairs and provost at the University of Maine, and Lisa Neuman, an associate anthropology professor who leads UMaine’s chapter of the Associated Faculties of the Universities of Maine (AFUM), about a survey detailing how participating faculty feel about returning to campus in […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Faye Gilbert, interim executive vice president of academic affairs and provost at the University of Maine, about plans to host classes in-person, remotely or online in the fall. Gilbert said she is communicating with families and to any confusion surrounding these decisions. UMaine is still finalizing class schedules and how […]
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