A Maine Public Broadcasting Network radio report on new welfare restrictions included remarks from Sandra Butler, a UMaine social work professor. Butler said there is no evidence that a significant amount of welfare money is being spent on products and services such as visits to nail salons and tattoo parlors, trips on cruise ships and […]
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Comments from Alan Majka, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator, were included in a Project Economy report by Portland TV station WMTW about changes over the years in food packaging. Majka, a registered dietician, said one way consumers can deal with confusion over package sizes is to look at the unit price. Contact: Jessica […]
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Several media outlets, including the Boston Globe website carried an Associated Press report that seven regional research institutions, including the University of Maine, had received grant funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to continue a buoy system that monitors the Gulf of Maine and southern New England. Neal Pettigrew, a UMaine professor who […]
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SFGate, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, posted a news release from a company that designed, assembled and installed an Environmental Wind Turbine Test Chamber at UMaine’s Offshore Wind Laboratory, which is part of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center on campus. The president of Hastest Solutions, Inc., said in the release he […]
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University of Maine historian Katherine O’Flaherty and graduate student Rob Gee, who co-write the blog Stillwater Historians, are hosting on the blog this month History Carnival 111: Environmental History Edition, a monthly showcase of blog writing about history. The History Carnival is hosted each month at a different history blog to highlight a variety of […]
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A study by UMaine psychiatrists linking social anxiety to dating aggression was posted on the Medical Xpress website. The study, which was published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, found young men with social anxiety, especially a fear of being judged negatively by others, are more likely to engage in personal and psychological dating aggression. […]
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The Virtual Strategy Magazine website posted a news release from Hastest Solutions, Inc., a California company that designs and manufactures wind test chambers, which noted the company had designed, assembled and installed a three-story environmental wind turbine test chamber in UMaine’s Offshore Wind Laboratory. The release included a comment from Habib Dagher, UMaine engineering professor […]
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In an opinion piece in the Portland Press Herald, a public information officer for the Maine Department of Transportation defended the state’s response to the news that the Bridge-in-a-Backpack technology developed at UMaine had received a key approval from a national group of transportation officials. Responding to a column in Wednesday’s Press Herald, the officer […]
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Robert Bayer, director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, commented in a Portland Press Herald story about the falling prices of lobster. Bayer said given the glut of lobsters on the market, the margins between the wholesale and retail prices are probably less now. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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UMaine students Katie Chenard and David Bridges, who are serving as interns this summer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, were profiled in a Bangor Daily News story and video. Chenard and Bridges are living on Metinic Island to protect migratory seabirds that nest there. In addition to enhancing nesting grounds and monitoring predator […]
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