Justina DeMott, (207) 581-1790 or justina.demott@umit.maine.edu After a disappointing couple of years in snowfall and weather conditions, the UMaine Office of Campus Activities and Student Engagement is taking advantage of more traditional winter weather and is planning for Winter Carnival 2011. Scheduled activities for the Saturday, Feb. 12 event include an ice-skating rink, a half-pipe […]
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UMaine graduate Ahsley Underwood, a Cony High School graduate from Benton who starred on the Black Bear basketball team while pursuing her UMaine nursing degree, is at contestant on the next season of the CBS television program “Survivor.” Filmed in Nicaragua, “Survivor: Redemption Island” premieres on Wednesday Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. In an online […]
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C. Stewart Doty, UMaine professor emeritus of history, recently published The Journal of Ann McMath: An Orphan in a New York Parsonage in the 1850s, a 256-page text expected to be of particular interest to historians, genealogists and anyone interested in the lives of ordinary people during the nineteenth century. Doty, coauthor of at least […]
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Jake Ward, UMaine assistant vice president for research, economic development and government relations, provides insights into UMaine’s deepwater offshore wind research activity in a Q&A-style interview posted Monday on the Seacoast online Web site.
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Comments from Prof. Bob Bayer of UMaine’s Lobster Institute were included in a Monday Portland Press Herald story about discussions relative to certifying the Maine lobster fishery as being sustainable. A London-based organization provides certifications of this nature, and the possibility has generated controversy among those involved in the Maine lobster industry.
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The Jan. 9 Maine Sunday Telegram included a story previewing the new exhibition at the UMaine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. The new exhibition, which opens on Friday, features sculpture, paintings and photographs. It will continue through March 26.
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The Bangor Daily News has an op-ed piece written by UMaine Professor Emeritus Richard Jagels about the Penobscot River restoration and removal of dams. Jagels, an emeritus professor of forest biology, writes of the benefit of local groups working together to open up nearly 1,000 miles of river habitat to improve migration and reproductive potential […]
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Bangor-based WLBZ reports on work in the lab of UMaine professors Ray Fort and Barbara Cole to extract a starter molecule of antiflu drug Tamiflu from pine needles and other conifer trees.
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Mary Ellen Camire, professor in the Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition and fellow in the Institute of Food Technologists, was interviewed recently for an article about hangovers posted this week on the MSN Health & Fitness website. For those who do suffer from hangovers, Camire extols the virtue of orange juice and bananas […]
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Contact: Sarah J. Nelson (207) 581-3454 or sarah.nelson@umit.maine.edu The University of Maine is offering students a chance to gain training and service in large landscape conservation through a new internship opportunity. The Acadian Internship in Regional Conservation and Stewardship is a 6-week summer course and internship program with the goals of training students, providing hands-on […]
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