Len Kaye of UMaine’s Center on Aging was featured in an MPBN story about high rates of drug abuse among Maine senior citizens. Kaye said an upward trend of abuse is apparent in Maine, and that a class of anti-anxiety medications called benzodiazepines are a major culprit.
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WABI had a story about the Children’s Water Festival, a daylong event hosted by UMaine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research which seeks to introduce water issues to schoolchildren. More than 700 students in grades 4-6 had a chance to touch ocean critters, participate in a trivia game about water, and […]
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Comments from John Jemison of the UMaine Cooperative Extensoin faculty are included in a Portland Press Herald story about a biotech company’s efforts to gain approval for genetically altered salmon. Jemison, a water quality specialist who has extensively studied issues related to genetically engineered crops, provided some big-picture perspectives on these issues from his perspective […]
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer tells Maine Today Media (Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Central Maine Morning Sentinel) that the 2010 Maine gubernatorial campaign may be shaping up to be the most expensive in Maine history.
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a five year, $3.3 million grant awarded to UMaine in order to increase the number of female faculty in the STEM and social-behavioral science fields. The grant will create the Rising Tide Center, which will seek to define the practices that attract and support the retention of female faculty, […]
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The midcoast newspaper Village Soup has an article about a lecture series a Aarhus Gallery in Belfast that will include a reading of the works of UMaine professor emerita Elaine Ford. A creative writing and literature professor, Ford is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories, “The American Wife,” for which […]
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Contact: Patty Counihan, 581-1359 Recruiters and representatives from nearly 60 companies with jobs for engineering students, interns and recent graduates will converge at the Student Fitness and Recreation Center Oct. 20 for UMaine’s 2010 Engineering Job Fair. The annual event is an opportunity for UMaine engineering students to meet prospective employers and learn about large […]
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The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered issued a news release relative to wetlands issues on the University of Maine campus. UMaine has provided the following response to that news release: Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 University of Maine officials expressed appreciation today for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approach to helping the university manage […]
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Contact: Susan Pinette, 581-3791 or 768-9452 ORONO — The University of Maine Franco American Centre has scheduled a reading Oct. 28 by author and attorney Robert G. Fuller, Jr., whose novel “Unnatural Deaths” takes place in a fictional Franco-American town in Maine with several Franco-American characters. The reading at 2 p.m. at the Centre in […]
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Contact: Amos Orcutt, (207) 581-5100 ORONO — At its 2010 annual meeting, the University of Maine Foundation Board of Directors elected Ellen Stinson chair of the board for 2010-2011. A Standish resident, Stinson is a 1968 graduate of the University of Maine and is senior associate in charge of finance and administration at Sebago Technics, […]
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