A three-day series of presentations by scientist and filmmaker Randy Olson begin on Tuesday Sept. 21. One highlight will be a 7 p.m. Wednesday Collins Center for the Arts screening of Olson’s film “Salt of the Earth.” That film, which premiered 20 years ago, features Stonington brothers Brian and Stevie Robbins describing life working in […]
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UMaine’s Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism will host a blood drive Tuesday Sept. 21 and Wednesday Sept. 22 at the Student Rec Center. The blood drive is scheduled for 11 a.m.-5 p.m. each day.
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Kathleen Ellis of the UMaine English and Honors College faculty and Nancy Ogle of the UMaine music faculty will discuss “Ripple Effect: The Influence of Women Poets on 20th Century Composters” on Tuesday Sept. 21, 12:15 p.m. in Memorial Union’s Bangor Room. The talk is part of the UMaine Women’s Studies and Women in the […]
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Several UMaine researchers will take part in a conference about the rise and fall of Maine’s sardine industry, according to Village Soup. Pauleena MacDougall of the UMaine-based Maine Folklife Center, and Bill Kuykendall of UMaine’s New Media Center will participate in the Oct. 22-23 conference.
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The website FreshPlaza.com has a report quoting UMaine Cooperative Extension Fruit Specialist Renae Moran about the apple harvest in Maine. Moran said the harvest is down because of an early spring frost.
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Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, commented in a Thursday WABI television story about the installation of a new bridge in Hermon. The structure uses “bridge in a backpack” technology developed under Dagher’s direction at the UMaine center. UMaine spinoff company Advanced Infrastructure Technologies is working with a local construction […]
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Syracuse football coach Doug Marrone told the Watertown Daily Times the Orange aren’t taking UMaine lightly as the teams head into their Saturday night game, which kicks off at 7:15 p.m.
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UMaine research into the presence of nanodiamonds in Greenland was mentioned in a story in The Daily Nexus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. UMaine scientists Paul Mayewski and Andrei Kurbatov of the Climate Change Institute helped provide expertise related to the flow dynamics along the edge of the Greenland ice sheet and the […]
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Research being done by Mary Davis, and adjunct faculty member in UMaine’s School of Economics, was cited in a Portland Press Herald story about the safety risks of fishing. Davis has found that about 40 percent of the boats in Maine’s inshore fishing fleet are out of compliance with safety regulations, and 16 percent of […]
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The Huffington Post has a blog entry about research done by UMaine’s Andrew Pershing into the idea that whales can effectively sequester carbon, therefore removing it from the atmosphere. Pershing estimates that restoring whale populations could remove up to 160,000 tons of carbon annually.
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