Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, was quoted in a CBSNews.com story about links between global warming and extreme weather incidents. Mayewski said humans may be changing weather patterns such as El Nino and La Nina, which could mean less stable weather patterns in the future.
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Comments from UMaine economics professor Gary Hunt are featured in a Wednesday Bangor Daily News story about Tuesday’s wind energy conference in Augusta. Speaking at the conference, Hunt described the investments necessary to make deepwater offshore wind power cost-effective. Channel 7 (WVII) interviewed Caroline Noblet of the UMaine economics faculty for a similar story at […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) broadcast a Tuesday news story about two students’ efforts to bring the national online magazine Her Campus to UMaine. Shaina Dennis and Macey Hall were interviewed for the story, describing the magazine, which is aimed at an audience of college women.
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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about a UMaine student who suffered cold-weather related injuries to his hands on Saturday night. The incident led UMaine police to issue a Sunday morning alert reminding students to take precautions when venturing outside during extremely weather conditions.
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The Tuesday campus visit by James Page, a candidate for the UMaine president’s job, was covered by the Bangor Daily News, WABI and WVII. Page, the CEO of the James W. Sewall Co. in Old Town, will be followed by three other finalists over the next two weeks. More information on the UMaine search is […]
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The Jamaica Observer’s “Wignall’s World” column notes that Jonathan Farley of the UMaine computer science faculty is profiled in a new book, “Jamaica’s Gifts to the World,” a series of profiles of Jamaicans of notable achievement.
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Monday’s Bangor Daily News included a story about the efforts of Albie Dunn, who works in technical services at Fogler Library, to teach an Old Town girl with physical disabilities how to skate. Seven-year-old Kaymi Hunt is a participant in the Penobscot Valley Hockey Conference’s Learn to Skate Program, where Dunn is a coach who’s […]
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Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News includes an op-ed column by Alan Cobo-Lewis of the UMaine psychology faculty. In the column, Cobo-Lewis expresses concern about two provisions of Maine’s supplemental budget bill, both of which relate to Child Development Services. CDS, as Cobo-Lewis describes it in the column, “provides early intervention and early childhood special education to […]
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Contact: Mary Ellen Camire, 581-1627 The Consumer Testing Center in the University of Maine Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition is looking for about 100 volunteers to provide opinions of fresh tomatoes on Tuesday, Jan. 25. Volunteers can participate in one of two different sessions: 11 a.m.- 1:30 p.m., or 4-5:30 p.m. Testing sessions […]
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Contact: Brian Olsen, (207) 581-2542 or brian.olsen@maine.edu The salt-water tidal marshes along Maine’s coast are part of an intricate network of waterways along the eastern North American coast that are unique globally. Yet the marshes are disappearing due to rising sea water levels and the development of inland and coastal areas. University of Maine bird […]
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