UMaine historian Howard Segal was quoted in an article in the Bangor Daily News about certain hiring practices of the University of Maine System. The article probed the hiring of seven upper-level UMaine System employees, including Elaine Clark, former UMaine executive director for facilities and real estate. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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The Sci-Tech.com website posted a USA Today article about an increase in opiate-addicted infants born to addicted mothers, and the potential consequences. The article included comments from University of Maine psychology professor Marie Hayes, a research authority in that field. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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The Network World website posted an article about the Gig.U high-speed fiber network collaboration involving the University of Maine, GWI and Gig.U, a national initiative that includes 37 leading research institutions in the United States. The collaboration will mean Maine communities, starting in the Orono-Old Town area, will have commercial and residential access to the […]
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Graduate students in the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences will have the opportunity to discuss their research at the 13th Annual Graduate Student Symposium, May 7-8 at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Maine. Research presentations start each day at 9:30 a.m. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777 or jessica.bloch@umit.maine.edu
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The Portland Press Herald carried a story about the UMaine student chapter of Engineers Without Borders, whose members recently designed and installed a new sewage and wastewater disposal system in a small rural village in Honduras. Students have been volunteering over spring and winter breaks on the project for several years. Contact: George Manlove, (207)581-3756
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Jim Dill, University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management specialist, discussed expectations for honeybees this year, in view of the light winter, with Channel 7 (WVII). Dill says elevated mite populations could cause a decline in this year’s bee populations, but hives are healthy at this point. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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University of Maine Dean of Student Affairs Robert Dana told the Bangor Daily News that the Dayglow music, paint and dance party that came to UMaine on Maine Day probably will not be invited back in the future. “Thousands of students had a wonderful time and a small number of people misbehaved and ended up […]
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In a Columbia Journalism Review column, Justin Martin, a UMaine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences-Honors College preceptor of journalism, writes that news organizations often overstate the size of their foreign bureaus. Martin believes the use of the word bureau to describe a single correspondent in a particular city is meant to trick audiences into […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator Richard Brzozowski was interviewed for a Central Maine Morning Sentinel report about horses that died of botulism on a farm in southern Maine. Brzozowski discussed the sensitive stomachs of horses, which may be impacted by impurities in baleage, the partially dried forage in large round bales that is then […]
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University of Maine professor of psychology Marie Hayes, an expert in perinatal and neonatal drug addition and infant withdrawal, was interviewed for several extensive articles on the increasing number of opiate-addicted infants born to addicted mothers.
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