University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a tree identification tour in Oat Nuts Park in Portland from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 28. Portland city arborist Jeff Tarling will lead a tour through the park and down to the Presumpscot River Preserve. Oat Nuts Park, on Summit Street, is the gateway […]
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts, with license from the American Foundation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact, is offering on Wednesday, Sept. 26 a student reading of “8,” the Broadway play chronicling California’s Federal District Court trial Perry v. Schwarzenegger, now Perry v. Brown, challenging the state’s Proposition 8, a constitutional provision […]
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Kathleen P. Bell, an associate professor in the School of Economics, has received an international Sören Wibe Prize from the Swedish Journal of Forest Economics for an article she coauthored in 2011 on evaluating programs designed to protect forests from the invasive forest pest hemlock woolly adelgid. Bell and coauthors Thomas P. Holmes, a U.S. […]
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The Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium (SISS) closed Thursday, Aug. 30, with the unveiling of the finished sculptures and a closing ceremony in the University of Maine’s Steam Plant parking lot. SISS, a partnership this year with UMaine, was a 6-week artist-in-residence program that brought eight sculptors from Maine and around the world to Orono, where […]
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Lauri Sidelko, the director of UMaine’s Student Wellness Resource Center, was mentioned in a Kennebec Journal report on the news that UMaine-Augusta will ban smoking on its campus starting in January. Sidelko said UMaine, which was the first University of Maine System campus to ban smoking, has had fewer than 10 students reported for violations. […]
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Channel 2 (WLBZ) and the AOL Jobs website have reported on research by University of Maine sociologist Amy Blackstone and colleagues about the increased likelihood of sexual harassment of women in supervisory positions. The researchers found that female supervisors faced workplace harassment 138 percent more than women who weren’t in supervisory roles. Occurrences were considered […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that the Maine Public Utilities Commission has granted a fifth extension to allow a Casella Waste Systems Inc. subsidiary and Bangor Gas Co. LLC to continue discussions over whether a proposed pipeline bringing methane gas from a local landfill to the University of Maine will hurt business for Bangor Gas, […]
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UMaine wood science professor Bob Rice was quoted in a Bangor Daily News story about a proposal to restart a paper mill in Nova Scotia with significant subsidies from the provincial government. Rice said should the mill open, the changes of the paper mill in Millinocket reopening would be greatly reduced. He also predicted the […]
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Channel 2 (WLBZ) reported on a new partnership among Cianbro construction company, the University of Maine, Saint Joseph’s College and Kennebec Valley Community College to allow Cianbro employees to take online classes to further their education and advance skills through what’s being called the Cianbro Institute. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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The Morning Sentinel advanced a series of Penobscot Bay afternoon and sunset cruises on the historic schooner Bowdoin, an annual fundraising project to raise scholarship funds for students in the Naval ROTC programs at the University of Maine and Maine Maritime Academy, and to recognize outstanding merchant marine graduates. The cost is $35 per person. […]
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