The University of Maine-based Maine Sea Grant will hold the Marine Science with Impact: Maine Sea Grant Biennial Research Symposium from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 5 at Buchanan Alumni House on the UMaine campus. The event is free and open to the public.
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The Daily Beast has listed a book by UMaine art historian Justin Wolff as a “Hot Read” on its website. The review of “Thomas Hart Benton: A Life” called the book a definitive biography of America’s first major painter. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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Justin Martin, a UMaine College of Liberal Arts and Science-Honors College preceptor of journalism, has a column in the Columbia Journalism Review examining countries that jail journalists. Martin found comparing a country’s jailed, killed, or exiled journalists to population size can shed light on how aggressively that government targets and disposes of reporters. Contact: Jessica […]
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UMaine student Erin Victoria Carter has won a scholarship from the Barry M. Goldwater Foundation, according to a story in the Bangor Daily News. Carter, who is majoring in biochemistry and molecular/cellular biology, hopes to get a doctoral degree in immunology or molecular biology, and her career goal is to conduct AIDS or autoimmune disease […]
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University of Maine marine scientist Robert Steneck is a member of a task force that recently announced a recommendation to halve global fishing for crucial prey species such as herring, anchovy and other species known as forage fish. The Lenfest Forage Fish Task Force released on April 1 its report, “Little Fish, Big Impact: Managing […]
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ORONO – Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair will make a multimedia presentation at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 4 at the University of Maine’s Donald P. Corbett Building, Room 100. The public is invited to the free event. His presentation “The Making of a Poet” will explore his development and rise as a nationally recognized […]
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An opinion column in the weekend edition of the Bangor Daily News by University of Maine Cooperative Extension Director John Rebar discussed the resurgence of farming in Maine and the role UMaine Extension researchers play in helping farmers and food producers with the latest science-based advice and agricultural methodology, in addition to nutritional food choice […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a feature story about UMaine’s Women’s Resource Center, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Sharon Barker, director of the center, was interviewed for the story, as was Lu Zeph, interim associate provost and dean of the division of lifelong learning. For more information about the anniversary, see a […]
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The Kennebec Journal published an opinion piece written by Christine Crittenden, a graduate student in the UMaine School of Social Work, about domestic violence. Crittenden writes that Maine lawmakers should support L.D. 1867, the Act to Protect Domestic Violence Victims. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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UMaine oceanographers Jeffrey Runge and Dave Townsend were quoted in an Associated Press story that ran in the Gloucester Times of Massachusetts about the impact of warm Gulf of Maine water on species. Runge and Townsend said the rising water temperatures in the gulf could have an impact on species, but what that impact may […]
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