The International Galician Studies Association, founded by professor of Spanish Kathleen March in 1985 at the University of Maine, has been awarded the Premio Nacional da Cultura Galega (National Prize for Galician Culture) from the Galician government, A Xunta. The Galician studies association seeks to increase awareness of Galician language and culture worldwide, and has […]
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Foster’s Daily Democrat newspaper has posted online an Associated Press article about research by UMaine economist Todd Gabe, who calculated recently that obesity will grow from 7.8 percent of Maine’s youth to nearly 26 percent as the youths grow into obese adults, without intervention, costing $1.2 billion in the next 20 years. Contact: George Manlove, […]
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An opinion piece in The Times Higher Education magazine by University of Maine professor of history Howard Segal discusses the importance of the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Act signed by President Abraham Lincoln, which created of a system of public colleges in the United States. Segal asserts that although it was widely considered that land-grant colleges […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot newspaper has published an advance about a free public talk, “Running on Empty: U.S. Policy in the Middle East,” at 8:15 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 27 at the Belfast Public Library by UMaine Libra Professor in International Relations Seth Singleton. Contact: George Manlove, 207.581.3756
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The Ellsworth American’s fenceviewer website has advanced the four-day international conference, “The American Lobster in a Changing Ecosystem: A U.S.-Canada Science Symposium,” Nov. 27–30, on the status of the lobster fishery, being held at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland. Rick Wahle, a research associate professor in the UMaine School of Marine Sciences, […]
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Several news organizations continued reporting on the investigation into the fatal aircraft crash Nov. 16 at the Knox County Regional Airport, in which two University of Maine students and a recent graduate died. Coverage included reports by Channel 2 (WLBZ), Channel 7 (WVII) and the Bangor Daily News. An earlier Bangor Daily News article about […]
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The science website PhysOrg has posted an article about the discovery of novel and hybrid strains of a fungus lethal to amphibians that was made possible through an extensive collection of frog fungus cultures from around the world at the Maine Chytrid Laboratory in UMaine’s School of Biology and Ecology. UMaine mycologist Joyce Longcore, a […]
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Multiple news organizations, including ABC World News, the Washington Post and USA Today carried an Associated Press article on the deaths of two University of Maine students and a recent alumnus in an airplane crash Nov. 16 at the Knox County Regional Airport in Owls Head. Coverage included interviews UMaine Vice President for Student Affairs […]
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A University of Maine Symphonic Band concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 6 at the Collins Center for the Arts will feature an electric guitar solo, an atypical mix of instrumentation. The addition of electric guitar to a wind and percussion ensemble is a result of collaboration by UMaine senior music education major and electric […]
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