David Hart, director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center at the University of Maine and research leader for the UMaine-based Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI), was in Washington, D.C. this week serving as a panelist at the prestigious National Academies Symposium “Science, Innovation, and Partnerships for Sustainability Solutions.” Hart, a professor of in the School […]
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The Bangor Daily News has advanced a stage reading from “The Glooskape Chronicles: Creation and the Venetian Basket,” a free and public event at 7 p.m. Monday, May 21 at UMaine’s Neville Hall. The play was written by author and UMaine adjunct faculty member Donna Loring, and directed by Native American author and playwright William […]
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Sarah Smiley, a 2012 University of Maine master of arts in communication graduate and columnist for the Bangor Daily News, was interviewed for a CNN feature story and video on her “Dinner with the Smileys” project. Smiley and her children invite special guests once a week to share dinner with her family and fill the […]
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Two brothers from Orrington, Maine, have won top prize in the first annual UMaine Business Challenge for UMaine student entrepreneurs. UMaine marketing student Luke Thomas and Jake Thomas, an outdoor recreation and business student at the University of Maine at Farmington, won $5,000 cash and start-up business support to promote and market their company, AerialFly, […]
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As part of its designation as a StormReady Campus, the University of Maine will host a National Weather Service SkyWarn storm-spotter training class at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 23 in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union. Presented by the National Weather Service office in Caribou, training topics include storm identification, reporting procedures, awareness and […]
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The University of Maine’s doubleheaders Friday and Saturday against America East conference leader Stony Brook will be the stage for a series of events before, during and after the games. Friday’s doubleheader, which starts at 3 p.m., features a Goodwill clothing drive for which donations are welcome. There will be fireworks following the second game. […]
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Western Farm Press, a national agricultural magazine covering agribusiness, has posted on its website a University of Maine video on the university’s advancing research and production of wood-based biofuels. The magazine notes that the research is of interest to the U.S. military for use in jet fuel. In the video, UMaine researchers discuss a major […]
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Readings from “The Glooskape Chronicles: Creation and the Venetian Basket,” written by author and University of Maine adjunct faculty member Donna Loring, and directed by Native American author and playwright William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., is being offered free in Room 101 of Neville Hall at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 21. The cast includes […]
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Racing Surfaces Testing Laboratory founder Michael “Mick” Peterson has been contracting with track owners and racing industry leaders to test track surfaces, both natural and synthetic.
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A hormone that plays a role in regulating body weight may be a key to understanding how hibernating bears can remain inactive for so long and not experience bone loss.
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