UMaine News

Contact: Jay Peters, 581-2355; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine School of Social Work researchers are reporting positive results from a new type of opinion questionnaire that reveals more accurate responses to controversial, even “ugly” questions about social attitudes. For sociologists wanting to know how people feel privately about racism, homophobia, sexuality and other controversial […]

Contact: Todd Gabe, (207) 581-3307; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — Policymakers hoping to lift wages in Maine through the “creative economy” should consider focusing their efforts on computer specialists, engineers and scientists, according to new research by University of Maine economists. Economist Todd Gabe and colleagues Kristen Colby and Kathleen P. Bell of […]

Contact: Fei Chai, (207) 581-4317Tom Weber, (207) 581-3777 ORONO — A University of Maine oceanographer has joined several scientists from around the world in questioning the sale of carbon credits for a proposed CO2-reduction strategy until more is known about its possible long-term affects on the marine environment. The method involves seeding large sections of […]

Contact: Patricia Counihan, 581-1355; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Some of the companies sending recruiters for the first time to the University of Maine Career Fair next week include Lowe’s home improvements chain, L.L. Bean, C.H. Robinson of Minnesota, the world’s largest produce marketer, and ValleyCrest Companies, a California-based landscape corporation known as the “landscaper […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Following a national search, Mark Pino has joined the University of Maine’s Office of University Development as Director of Prospect Research. Pino comes from Regis University in Denver, Co., where he held a number of positions over the last six years, including director of research and prospect […]

Contact: Joe Carr: (207) 581-3571 Ancient diversification Archaeological work along Peru’s southern coast over the past several decades has largely supported ethnohistoric accounts by 16th- and 17th-century Europeans, which depicted prehispanic life as dependent on specialized economic activities related to fishing or agriculture. However, recent excavations at Wawakiki in the midst of the Osmore region, […]

Contact: Professor Doug Allen, 581-3860 ORONO — The UMaine Socialist and Marxist Studies spring lecture series, beginning Jan. 31 on the Orono campus, examines elements of war, peace, racism, democracy and international relations as they involve the United States, China, Iraq, Venezuela and a resurgent Russia in today’s world. Open to the public at no cost, […]

Contact: Carey Nason (207) 581-2515 ORONO — When will someone get up and do something? “It’s Not That Simple,” a show organized by the University of Maine’s Safe Campus project, hopes to raise awareness of sexual assault by asking just this question. The show will be performed on March 26 at 7:30p.m., in Minsky Recital […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Two University of Maine Maine Business School students, Violeta Zaneva and Anh Do, have passed the Level I examination of the Chartered Financial Analyst program, considered the “gold standard among investment analysis designations” by The Economist magazine. They took the exam in Boston in December. The pass […]

Contact: Karl Kreutz, Associate Professor, University of Maine (207) 581-3011;Mark Twickler, Science Coordination Office, University of New Hampshire (603) 862-1991 New Antarctic Ice Core to Provide Clearest Climate Record Yet UMaine researchers involved in long-term paleoclimate study DURHAM, N.H. – After enduring months on the coldest, driest, and windiest continent on Earth, researchers today closed […]