Tom Taylor, the chair of UMaine’s department of public administration, commented in a story on the Bangor Daily News website about the recent wave of fraud by municipal officers and town officials. Taylor said he would like to see increased professionalism, including the hiring of town or city managers to work on finances and other […]
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution interviewed UMaine’s Mary Madden, an education professor who in 2008 released with fellow faculty member Elizabeth Allan a national report on hazing, in a story about the hazing of band members at a Florida university. Madden said it takes a lot of courage to come forward to report hazing because of the […]
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The magazine Education Week includes an article co-written by Maja Wilson, a lecturer in UMaine’s College of Education and Human Development. The article focuses on the Common Core, a national K-12 academic standards initiative that has been adopted by Maine and most of the other states in the U.S. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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UMaine political scientist Amy Fried’s blog Pollways was noted in a column on the Atlantic Magazine website. Atlantic linked to a Fried blog post in which she discussed U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe’s reelection campaign and what the campaign is doing to enroll voters as she faces a possible threat in the Republican primary. Contact: Jessica […]
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An article in the Bangor Daily News about a proposed liquid natural gas terminal in Down East Maine cited a UMaine study which found an LNG terminal would create 90 operational jobs, 350 construction jobs and 230 “indirect” jobs in the region. The study was prepared in 2005 by UMaine economists Todd Gabe and Jonathan […]
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Bill Kuykendall and Joline Blais of UMaine’s New Media Department were mentioned in a Village Soup online story as they discussed citizen media makers and the use of media to engage people with their own community during a meeting of the Orono-based nonprofit group Maine Rural Partners. Kuykendall called for a collaborative approach among professional […]
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The Central Maine Morning Sentinel carried a news story about the announcement that UMaine is taking over daily operation and programs of the Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan. Charles Morris, a senior research associate at UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, told the newspaper the move is an important one for the university system […]
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A UMaine professor has posted a YouTube video in which he asks pop singer Pink if she will perform a Christmas duet with him in order to raise funds for female mass rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Habib Dagher, the director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was interviewed by the Al Jazeera network for a TV report on the prospects of deepwater offshore wind power in the Gulf of Maine. Dagher told Al Jazeera the goal is to replace gasoline and heating oil with clean energy from the gulf.
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Efforts by the Knowledge Transfer Alliance (KTA) and Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) to help a Brewer manufacturer that retrofits shipping containers into housing units were mentioned in a Bangor Daily News story. The KTA is an initiative within UMaine’s School of Economics that helps Maine communities and businesses overcome hardships cause by economic or natural […]
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