UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer was quoted in a Boston Globe story about the coming vote on Question 1, which seeks to legalize same-sex marriage in Maine. Brewer discussed the phenomenon of what is known as the “social desirability effect,” with people who say they are undecided on an issue being likely to give a […]
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A UMaine research project was noted in an Inside Higher Ed article about a Florida meeting of prevention educators. The story included information about a project by former UMaine graduate student Molly Schenck, who wrote and directed a play, “It’s Not that Simple,” in 2008. She resurrected the dance-theater-new media performance again in 2011 as […]
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An article in the Maine Sunday Telegram about how new state government policies on contracts for intellectual services such as research and training are affecting the state’s public universities noted that a $3.5 million contract for providing nutritional education to food-stamp recipients, which went to the private University of New England, resulted in the loss […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) reported on a fundraising walk organized by UMaine’s Alumni Chapter of Delta Zeta sorority during Homecoming Weekend. Proceeds from the Hike for Hearing walk will benefit audiology services at the Warren Center in Bangor. Heidi Wurpel, the president of Delta Zeta, was interviewed for the story. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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An interview with University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management specialist Jim Dill was the basis for a Maine Sunday Telegram gardening column about dealing with pest insects without pesticides. Dill explained UMaine Extension’s Green Bug Education Program, part of UMaine Extension’s Integrated Pest Management Program, which helps people deal with pests without using unnecessary […]
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An article in the Bangor Daily News about a Washington County cranberry farm and the market options for cranberries noted that the University of Maine Cooperative Extension has estimated this year’s harvest will be good with a yield of about 2.5 million pounds, which is better than last year’s harvest of 2.4 million pounds. Contact: […]
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The University of Maine’s 2012 Annual Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 25 will feature Frances Fox Piven, author and distinguished professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, who will present “How Protest Movements Change American History” at 7:30 p.m. […]
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An anthropologist revises the timeline of the growth and decline of a Maya city in Belize.
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