The University of Maine has been named one of the top scorers in the annual “Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2012 Edition,” and was one of only 16 profiled institutions named to its “Green Honor Roll” for receiving energy-efficiency and sustainability ratings of 99 —the highest possible score.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin’s upcoming appearance as the keynote speaker for UMaine’s Leadership Week was the subject of a story in the Bangor Daily News. Goodwin, a noted author and historian, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Collins Center for the Arts in a free event for the public. Goodwin’s talk comes the evening […]
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A blog from UMaine graduate student Seth Campbell, who is preparing to lead an expedition in Denali National Park in Alaska, was posted on the website Adventures in Climate Change. The expedition group, which will include several current and former UMaine students, will be estimating total ice volume in the Alaska Range. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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A new web tool designed by researchers in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute and School of Computing and Information Sciences was the focus of an article on the website Digital Journal and a story in the Bangor Daily News. The web tool, known as 10Green, allows users to enter a ZIP code to learn about their […]
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Justin Martin, a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences-Honors College preceptor of journalism, has a commentary on the Global Post website about the gas prices in the U.S. Martin argues journalists should reinforce the reality that our driving habits influence high prices, that our global neighbors pay a lot more than we do and that […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a report about a potential natural gas pipeline link that would move methane gas from the Juniper Ridge landfill in Old Town to UMaine’s Steam Plant, where it would be used to run boilers and create heat for campus buildings. Casella Waste Systems Inc. subsidiary EcoGas LLC has filed a […]
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An opinion column by mathematician and UMaine associate professor of computer science Jonathan Farley about discrimination against black mathematicians was published in a recent edition of the Guardian newspaper in the U.K. In it, he responds to an essay in the Nation Review that implied intellectual differences between black and white people. Farley cited several […]
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Bangor TV station WABI featured a fundraiser held Friday by UMaine sorority Pi Beta Phi that raised more than $1,000 for First Book, an organization that brings books to low-income families in the U.S. and Canada. The sorority held a chicken wing eating contest with food donated from area restaurants. UMaine students Courtney Maynard and […]
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In a series of notes about UMaine athletics, the Bangor Daily News reported that UMaine football coach Jack Cosgrove is scheduled to give the keynote address at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes breakfast on Sunday, April 22. There were also briefs about UMaine field hockey’s spring season and an upcoming UMaine women’s hockey fundraiser. Contact: […]
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Sarah Sparks, a 4-H professional with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald story about the resurgence in popularity of sewing. Sparks said more clubs are being organized around fiber arts and sewing, and an annual fashion review for 4-H members in Cumberland County has doubled in the number […]
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