The Bangor Daily News covered the Saturday lecture by equal pay pioneer Lilly Ledbetter at the annual Maine NEW Leadership conference Saturday at the University of Maine. Mary Cathcart, a Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center senior policy fellow and co-director of the event, was interviewed for the story. She said women still need to be […]
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The Portland Press Herald carried an article about another community garden at a school site in South Portland, which is dedicating three rows of produce for donation to charity through the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Harvest for Hunger program. The garden is at Hinckley Park. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for a Kennebec Journal article profiling Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Benjamin Pollard of Portland. Brewer said among Pollard’s immediate goals should be establishing name recognition, given his limited political experience. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Channel 5 (WABI) aired a report on the high-altitude balloon launch over the weekend by several University of Maine engineering students and some from Bangor High School. The experiment was funded by the Maine Space Grant Consortium with support from NASA. Electrical and computer engineering professor Rick Eason was interviewed for the report. He said […]
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Charles Kittridge, former agricultural engineer with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension for 31 years until his retirement in 1986 will receive the 2012 Barbara Hikel Award for exemplary volunteer service to the university after retirement. He’ll receive the award during a luncheon Tuesday, June 5 at noon with UMaine President Paul Ferguson at the […]
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The University of Maine women’s basketball program, which recently completed its 2012 recruiting season, has been ranked 36th in the nation out of 342 teams by the NCAA Division-I women’s basketball teams’ Chris Mennig, national scouting director with Blue Star Basketball. The Black Bears locked up three student-athletes from the United States in the fall […]
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The global energy organization Iberdrola USA Foundation and the Fundacion Iberdrola Scholarship Program for Energy and Environment Postgraduate Studies in the United States announced the awarding of fellowships to University of Maine Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate student Matthew Burns and a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Burns studies the feasibility of deploying […]
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An article in the Portland Press Herald about the beginning of the cruise line season in Maine noted that a University of Maine School of Economics and UMaine Cooperative Extension study of the economic benefits of cruise line visits to Maine ports is substantial. The 2008 study found that 47,000 passengers from 31 ships added […]
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University of Maine astronomer and professor of physics Neil Comins was interviewed for a Channel 2 (WLBZ) news report Thursday on the privatization of space travel as a trend of the future. Thursday’s successful splashdown of the privately owned commercial spacecraft, Dragon, after resupplying the International Space Station, was the inaugural sign of what’s to […]
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The science website Phys.Org has posted a University of Maine news release about the results of a study overseen by University of Maine School of Economics Director George Criner on the contents of garbage in a sampling of more than 15 Maine communities. Researchers found that 60 percent of what’s typically thrown in the trash […]
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