The Xi Sigma Pi forestry honor society is selling locally grown, hand-sheared fraser and balsam fir holiday trees to benefit scholarship funds for University of Maine forestry undergraduates 3–5 p.m., Nov. 26–Nov. 30, from 8 a.m.–4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, and 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2 in front of Nutting Hall. Trees are from […]
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For its 6 p.m. news report Nov. 26, Channel 7 (WVII) interviewed Alice Kelley, a faculty member in the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences, about two small earthquakes, one on Nov. 23 just west of Belfast and in Fort Kent on Nov. 25. Kelley displayed a printout from the university’s seismometer, […]
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News Media Report on Memorial Plans for Plane Crash Victims The Bangor Daily News, Channel 5 (WABI) and Channel 2 (WLBZ) were among several news organizations reporting on plans for a memorial service at 6 p.m., Nov. 27 in Hauck Auditorium at UMaine for two students and a recent graduate killed Nov. 16 when their […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension cranberry specialist Charles Armstrong was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article on this year’s cranberry harvest, which he said probably will weigh in at 2.4 million pounds — not a record but good news for those growers who were less affected by erratic weather conditions. The record harvest, at […]
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Channel 7 (WVII) interviewed University of Maine associate professor of management information systems Nory Jones in the Maine Business School for a 6 p.m., Nov. 26 report about the significance of Cyber Monday holiday shopping, considered at one time to be the busiest online shopping day after the Thanksgiving weekend. Jones said analysts were predicting […]
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The Wall Street Journal, Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News and Maine Public Broadcasting Network were among the news organizations to publish information from an Associated Press report on the lobster conference, “The American Lobster in a Changing Ecosystem: A U.S.-Canada Science Symposium,” this week in Portland that’s being hosted by Maine Sea Grant at […]
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In his Bangor Daily News blog, “Education: Future Imperfect,” University of Maine professor of history Howard Segal reflects on the impersonal nature of interactive television classes. Though videoconferencing technology has improved since the mid-1990s, Segal points out that by teaching before a classroom of students, instructors can assess how well they are getting through to […]
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A new permanent exhibit at the Maine State Archives in Augusta has its roots in the Ph.D. research of a recent University of Maine alumnus and newly appointed assistant professor. Ethnohistorian Micah Pawling is the guest curator of “Choosing Survival: Wabanaki Documents at the Maine State Archives.” The exhibit features 18th- and 19th-century Wabanaki documents […]
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Kimberly Page has been named director of the University of Maine Office of Student Records, effective Dec. 1. Page has been at the University of Connecticut since 1984, most recently as associate registrar for systems and degree audit in the Office of the Registrar. Her academic career started in the College of Liberal Arts and […]
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UMaine students and employees step up to help others in need this holiday season.
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