USM in the News!
A sampling of stories featuring USM students, faculty, and staff.
The findings of a report, "Toxic Pollution in Casco Bay," by the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership, part of USM's Muskie School of Public Service, was featured in a Portland Press Herald article on March 1. The report compiles 20 years of data about the bay's water, sediments, and inhabitants, from blue mussels to harbor seals. “We are seeing decreasing levels of toxic contaminants,” said Karen Young, director of the partnership. “The bad news is that many toxic pollutants are very persistent.”
The link to the article from the Portland Press Herald is no longer available.
A Christian Science Monitor story about gender-neutral housing, which includes mention of USM--one of about 20 universities and colleges across the country to allow undergraduates of the opposite sex to share an on-campus room--went national, appearing in Inside Higher Ed, and on January 1, in the Colorado Daily online. Read the story at http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2007/01/01/news/c_u_and_boulder/news2.txt. An article on the same topic, again including USM, also appeared in People Magazine on February 26.
Why do students request gender-neutral housing? The link to the February 11 Maine Sunday Telegram article is no longer available.
USM theatre students Stacy Ann Strang, Nick Amandon, and Ian Carlsen have submitted an original script for a soap opera, Criehaven: Island of Secrets, to SOAPnet and were recently
notified that their soap is one of the top 5 in the competition. The winning team will receive $20,000 to create a pilot of their show and a trip to California to make a pitch to producers and officials at SOAPnet. To see a clip of Criehaven, visit: http://soapnet.go.com/specials/soapu. FYI, Strang, who wrote and performed in Criehaven, was the playwright of one of the student-written plays staged in Russell Hall in February.
A November Portland Press Herald story, "Oceans awash in plastic," focuses on criminology Professor Sandra Wachholz's "hobby" of collecting trash along the waterfront. She's incorporating this work into her Crimes Against the Environment class offered this spring.
The link to the Portland Press Herald article is no longer available.
USM Provost Joseph Wood was quoted at length in the December 19 Washington Post about the growth of immigrant communities in aging suburban strip malls.
Read what he has to say at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/18/AR2006121801448.html.
A STRIVE U student, Christina Mailhot, was profiled in the October 16 issue of People Magazine. This remarkable young woman is also the subject of an October 13 Lewiston Sun Journal story that explains USM's relationship with STRIVE U.
Read that article at: http://www.sunjournal.com/index.php?t=3&storyid=179909.
Stories ran in the Boston Globe, the Lewiston Sun Journal, and the Portland Press Herald about the group Opportunity Maine and its launch of a campaign proposing income tax credits to help offset student loans for Maine college graduates who elect to stay in the state. The political action committee, led by USM's very own Student Body President Andrew Bossie, has gathered enough signatures to get its proposal on the November ballot.
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