Maine Public Broadcasting Network radio has a story about a study of Maine’s garbage being done by George Criner, a professor in UMaine’s School of Economics. Criner told MPBN the aim of the study is to document what is in the household waste stream of 17 Maine communities so that municipalities and state policy-makers can […]
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Steve Trimper, the head coach of the UMaine baseball team, was featured in a Green Outdoors segment on WCSH6 TV. Trimper said in the segment he enjoys hunting and scouting hunting grounds. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The University of Maine is planning a Thursday, Nov. 10 pep rally in support of the Black Bear football team. It is scheduled for 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Memorial Union’s Maine Marketplace. The marching band and cheerleaders will perform in the atrium outside the UMaine bookstore, while speakers including President Paul Ferguson and football coach […]
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Former Bangor Daily News executive editor Mark Woodward will moderate a discussion involving former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen and Retired U.S. Marine General James Jones, the first National Security Advisor in the Obama Administration, on Thursday Nov. 17 at the University of Maine. The moderated discussion on the Arab Spring, a series of […]
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A fully functional table saw, a $45 flashlight, a bag of canned food, baby strollers, car seats, plastic toys, bowling balls and returnable bottles and cans are some of the things residents of Maine communities have thrown in the trash this past summer and fall.
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UMaine football player Warren Smith was the subject of a feature story in the Press of Atlantic City newspaper. The New Jersey native, a quarterback for the Black Bears, has led UMaine to a 7-2 overall record so far this fall. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Several news outlets noted the news that UMaine has been awarded a grant to study early detection methods for red tide, a toxin found in some mudflat where shellfish are harvested and which can lead to a potentially fatal human illness. Portland’s WGME TV station covered the announcement, and the Boston Herald ran an Associated […]
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Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty was interviewed for a Seacoast Online story looking ahead to Tuesday’s statewide election. Brewer thinks turnout could be as high as 35 percent, due in part to significant television advertising related to the referendum questions. He also commented in a Lewiston Sun Journal story looking at the […]
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Retired U.S. Marine Gen. James L. Jones, who served as the first National Security Advisor in the Obama administration, will visit the University of Maine on Thursday, Nov. 17 to deliver a William S. Cohen Lecture. The talk is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts.
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UMaine anthropologist Dan Sandweiss was quoted extensively in an Oct. 21 story in Science, looking at new evidence suggesting a human presence in the Americas 13,800 years ago. That date precedes the Clovis culture, long believed to be the New World’s first, by almost 1,000 years. The new findings, developed by a group led by […]
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