Contact: George Markowsky, (207) 581-3940 UMaine students are invited to gather today from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in Room 100, Neville Hall, to learn about the upcoming international Imagine Cup 2011 competition sponsored by Microsoft and designed to bring out the best in information technology creations by the world’s young software developers. Imagine Cup is a team-based, […]
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UMaine alumnus Doug Hall, who founded UMaine’s innovation engineering program, was mentioned in a story in The Forecaster newspaper in southern Maine. Hall’s techniques helped inspire children to come up with marketing ideas during a Lemonade Day Maine event in South Portland.
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about three UMaine students who have fled Egypt in the wake of unrest in that country. Andrea Groves, a UMaine graduate student in anthropology, was studying at the American University in Cairo and fled to Jordan. Karen Boucias, director of UMaine’s Office of International Programs, told the newspaper […]
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In a story about the rising suicide rates among young men in Northern Ireland, The Irish Times noted a research collaboration between Queen’s University and John Cutcliffe of the UMaine nursing faculty. The research sought to increase understanding of suicidal young men in Northern Ireland and inform the delivery of mental health services.
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Contact: Rita Cooper, (207) 329-6320 or president.ewb.um@gmail.com The University of Maine student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-UMaine) is urgently seeking donations to fund the construction of a community sanitation system in the small town of Dulce Vivir, Honduras, where poor sanitation conditions limit economic opportunities of the residents and cause environmental and health concerns. […]
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An article by UMaine Department of Communication and Journalism faculty member Michael Socolow was cited and excerpted for publication in the Winter 2011 edition of The Wilson Quarterly, published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Socolow’s peer-reviewed article details the history of the highly profitable New York Times op-ed page, considered something of […]
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A UMaine graduate student’s discovery of a bone from the oldest domesticated dog yet identified in the Americas was featured on CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks show Samuel Belknap found the 9,400-year-old bone in a paleofecal sample, providing early evidence man considered dogs as food sources.
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Katherine Musgrave, a UMaine nutrition professor emerita, commented in an Associated Press story about the drive to make the whoopie pie Maine’s state dessert. Musgrave said chocolate used in whoopie pies contain antioxidants that relax blood pressure.
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Contact: Kate Yerxa, (207) 299-8336; Mary Ellen Camire, (207) 581-1627; Alan Majka, (207) 622-7546 Several University of Maine dieticians and nutritionists are available today to discuss the new U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ new 2010 dietary guidelines released this morning and how they might affect the nation’s growing […]
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Monday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about an agreement UMaine has entered with Casella Waste Systems, which operates the Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town. The contract will allow for UMaine to purchase landfill gas from that facility to power the central steam plant. Over 20 years, the arrangement is expected to save the […]
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