The University of Maine Museum of Art is inviting the public to a free afternoon tea with artist Arnold Mesches at 2 p.m. on June 20. Mensches’ paintings are featured this summer in the UMMA exhibition, “Arnold Mesches: A Minispective,” which opens June 22. In a career spanning over half a century, Mesches, a prolific […]
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed by Seacoast Online for a story about next week’s primaries for in the race for U.S. Senate in Maine. Brewer said the Democratic and Republican victors will get statewide campaigning credentials that can’t be garnered any other way, and even losing a primary helps give a candidate name […]
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The website Medical Xpress posted a UMaine news release about research into the connection between the consumption of dairy food and arterial stiffness. UMaine psychologist/epidemiologist Merrill Elias, and psychologists Michael Robbins and Gregory Dore, who collaborated on the research with colleagues in Australia, helped find that adults who include dairy foods in their diets might […]
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Marcella Sorg, a UMaine forensic anthropologist, was noted in an Associated Press report posted on the Fox News website about the search for the remains of Maurice Bishop, a Marxist prime minister of Grenada who was gunned down in 1983 by a firing squad. According to the AP, Sorg led an international team that spent […]
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Comments from David Handley, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist, were included in a Portland Press Herald report on the Maine strawberry harvest. Handley said strawberry growers are anticipating a good harvest in the coming weeks despite frosts and recent heavy rain. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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Nicole Golden, a University of Maine junior who is a double major in psychology and sociology, has been named a winner of a Truman Scholarship. Golden is one of 54 winners selected from 587 candidates nominated by 292 colleges and universities. Truman Scholars were chosen by 16 independent selection panels on the basis of their […]
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A story on the website of Portland TV station WCSH about the arrival in Portland of a large cruise ship mentioned UMaine research into the cruise ship industry. The 2009 study by UMaine economists Jim McConnon and Todd Gabe, found the industry brings in upwards of $6 million or more to Portland. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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David Yarborough, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension blueberry experts, was interviewed by the Bangor Daily News about the effects of the cold, wet, foggy spring on the blueberry crop along the Down East coast. Yarborough said the fields close to the ocean may be a bust, but inland fields are a lot further along. […]
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Bangor TV station WVII covered the closing ceremony of this year’s Maine NEW Leadership initiative, which is sponsored by UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. UMaine President Paul Ferguson attended the commencement ceremony for the program, which gives female college students an opportunity to learn networking and leadership skills. The report also included comments from […]
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Comments from Mary Ellin Logue, a UMaine associate professor of child development and family relations, were included in a Bangor Daily News report about the death of a 2-year-old who had been roughhousing with his older brother. Logue said the incident shouldn’t be cause for people to stop playing or roughhousing with their children, but […]
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