The PBS news program “Washington Week in Review” has aired a news report on how Maine voters get information about political candidates that was created and reported by UMaine student Kylie Keene, a senior who is interning at WVII (ABC) Bangor this semester. Keene interviewed UMaine students and several older adults in Orono, in addition to political science professor Amy Fried for the report.
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Kristin Sobolik of UMaine’s Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute was noted in a story on the website io9.com for her work in paleofecal research. The story said there was a big breakthrough in human DNA extraction when Sobolik suggested samples found in Hinds Cave in Texas be tested.
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The Maine Physical Sciences Partnership, a program that partners UMaine with nearly 50 middle and high schools, was featured in two local TV reports Thursday evening. WABI and WLBZ filmed students and a teacher at the Reeds Brook School in Hampden, where the students were studying force and motion by testing propeller-powered model cars. Both stations interviewed Erika Allison, the UMaine-based project operations director for Maine PSP and the UMaine-based Maine Center for Research in STEM Education.
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The Bangor Daily News ran a preview story of “Avenue Q,” an upcoming production by Maine Masque, a UMaine student theatre organization, which features puppetry. UMaine theater professor Sandra Hardy told the BDN in an interview that in learning how to do puppetry for the show, her students gained a useful skill they can use to their advantage in the job market.
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Warren Burns, a former UMaine speech professor, passed away on Feb. 6 in Brewer. According to an obituary in the Bangor Daily News, Burns joined the UMaine faculty in 1968 after completing a master’s in theater arts and a doctorate in speech communication from Penn State. He retired from UMaine in 1991. Burns was a current member of the UMaine Black Bear Men’s Chorus. Survivors include his second wife, Geraldine “Jerry” Douglas Burns, and sons, including Thomas Burns, who played basketball for UMaine. Friends may call 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, at Brookings-Smith, 133 Center St., Bangor. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at St. Paul the Apostle Parish, St. John Roman Catholic Church, 207 York St., Bangor. Spring interment will be at Riverside Cemetery, Orono.
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Bangor TV station WABI has a story about Warren Burns, a former UMaine speech professor who died Monday. Burns arrived at UMaine in 1968 and taught in the speech department until his retirement in 1991.
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The University of Maine Department of Art will present new work by art faculty in an exhibition in the Lord Hall Gallery. (more…)
UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed by Bangor TV station WLBZ about how the ongoing Maine Republican caucus works. Brewer said there because there is no clear frontrunner at this point, the caucuses will be hard to predict this year. He thinks the winner will either be Mitt Romney or Ron Paul, who are the two best organized candidates in the caucus.
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University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer discussed Maine Republican politics and the upcoming caucuses in the state for the Feb. 5 edition of the Inside America program (http://www.abc.net.au/
UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for a story in the Central Maine Morning Sentinel about this year’s elections for Maine House and Senate. Brewer said both houses are up for grabs again after the Republicans took control of both last year, and it is conceivable there could be a change in partisan control.
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