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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By advancing scientific understanding of arsenic and the way it functions in the body, UMaine researchers Carol Kim and Julie Gosse hope to promote science-based environmental regulations and medical interventions to mitigate the element’s toxic effects.
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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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Jim Dill, University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor of biological sciences and pest management specialist, is available to discuss the status of several seasonal insect pests, including mosquitoes, black flies and a new arrival in Maine, the spotted wing drosophila, a fruit fly that threatens soft fruit and vegetable crops. Also know as the Asian […]
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University of Maine sophomore Terri Bastarache of Gorham, Maine, is the recipient of the prestigious George J. Mitchell Peace Scholarship and will receive a full scholarship to spend the 2013 spring semester at University College Cork in Ireland. The scholarship honors the 1998 Northern Ireland peace accord brokered by former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell between […]
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