Multiple news organizations, including the Bangor Daily News, Channel 6 (WCSH), Channel 5 (WABI), Channel 7 (WVII) and Mainebiz reported on the opening Monday of the 40,000-square-foot Technology Research Center in Old Town to be used by the University of Maine Forest Bioproducts Research Institute. The facility will allow UMaine researchers to work with private […]
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University of Maine sociology professor Steve Barkan, who received a Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA) Textbook Excellence Award for his latest textbook, “Sociology, Understanding and Changing the Social World,” at the association’s annual conference recently in New Orleans, also received the TAA President’s Award for his service to the association and for his record […]
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A column by University of Maine journalism faculty member and Honors College preceptor Justin Martin about freedom of speech and of the press in countries with restricted democratic policies has been published on the Columbia Journalism Review website. Citing research by the Institute for Research on the International Economy, Martin wrote that countries that derive […]
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University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for a primary election assessment in the Portland Press Herald, which evaluated how campaign spending may have influenced voters. Brewer says the results showed that candidates that spent the most money didn’t all benefit. He also was quoted in an Associated Press article posted on the […]
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Comments from former state senator Mary Cathcart, a senior policy associate at the University of Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, were included in an Associated Press article appearing on the political news website Real Clear Politics assessing Maine Republican congressional candidates Charlie Summers, who won last week’s Republican Senate primary, and Kevin Raye, who […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist David Handley was interviewed for a Channel 6 (WCSH) report on this year’s strawberry crop, which he said is healthy and early. Handley said locally grown strawberries have more flavor and nutrition because they are allowed to fully ripen before harvest, while berries grown elsewhere […]
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The Portland Press Herald carried an article about a new line of industrial and firefighter work boots being manufactured by Falcon Performance Footwear of Auburn with research and development assistance from University of Maine researchers. The boots have a protective toe insert made from a fiberglass and resin composite developed and tested at UMaine’s AMC […]
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UMaine’s Summer Music Theatre Festival will present new productions of “Gilbert and Sullivan Musicale” and “Johnny Baseball” later this month and next, and in August, respectively. Both productions will be performed in Hauck Auditorium. “Gilbert and Sullivan Musicale” includes a complete performance of “Trial by Jury” and selections from Gilbert and Sullivan classics “The Mikado,” […]
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University of Maine political science professor Mark Brewer was interviewed by the Kennebec Journal about the amount of money spent in the primary campaigns for Maine’s open U.S. Senate seat. Brewer said money was less of a factor for the Democrats because none of the four candidates bought expensive TV spots. Comments from Brewer were […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on comments made Wednesday by Maine Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen who met on campus with UMaine education students. Speaking about new directions in teaching that Maine’s future and working teachers should consider as they go forward in their careers, Bowen told the UMaine students, who are in an intensive one-year […]
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