UMaine first-year student Erika Jolie has died of injuries suffered in an automobile accident. She was an 18-year-old New Media major from York, Maine. “Erika had a positive impact on the UMaine community in a short time, and her death is a horrible tragedy,” says UMaine Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A five-year, $3.3 million National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant will fund a new University of Maine initiative to affect institutional change by improving the status of female faculty in the sciences, technology, engineering, mathematics and the social-behavioral sciences. The grant will establish the Rising Tide Center, which […]
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An in-depth interview with Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, and international expert on glaciology and climate change, was posted Oct. 8 on the Edible Geography website, a Los Angeles-based news-blog website. Mayewski discussed his ice core research in Greenland, the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau, Iceland, New Zealand and Antarctica, explaining the process […]
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Nanotechwire.com reports on the discovery made by a group of scientists, including Andrei Kurbatov and Paul Mayewski of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, of a layer of nanodiamonds in Greenland ice that may provide a link to the extension of certain mammals nearly 13,000 years ago. Kurbatov and Mayewski helped provide expertise related to the flow […]
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The Bangor Daily News followed U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud on Thursday as he visited two Hancock County businesses working with UMaine’s Knowledge Transfer Alliance and Hugh Stevens of the UMaine School of Economics. Stevens is quoted in the story.
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The UMaine Collins Center for the Arts presents Das Rheingold, the first of four of Richard Wagner’s epic Ring of the Nibelung operas, in a live Metropolitan Opera broadcast Saturday, Oct. 9, from 1-3 p.m. Two unparalleled artists join forces to create a groundbreaking new Ring for the Met: Maestro James Levine and director Robert […]
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A new informational Web site related to the search for the University of Maine’s next president was launched today. The site includes information about the process, along with the position posting itself and candidate criteria.
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Friday’s Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News feature stories previewing the UMaine Black Bear hockey team’s season-opening weekend. Ranked #7 in the nation and #2 in Hockey East in pre-season polls, the Black Bears will host UMass-Lowell on Friday night and UConn on Saturday night.
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UMaine junior Ben Goodman is featured in stories in the Portland Press Herald and several other news outlets, in his role as president of the Maine College Democrats organization. That group is challenging GOP gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage with regard to his stance on college students and voting rights.
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The Cumulus radio station group, including WQCB-FM, broadcast a news report featuring UMaine math professor Andre Khalil’s work in developing new methods for analyzing structural changes in cancer cells. This work, described in a UMaine news release, could lead to methods for earlier detection of cancer.
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