by Rose Lundy | October 11, 2020
Three major Maine colleges and universities haven’t had a new positive COVID-19 case for more than a week, and Bates and Bowdoin colleges have zero active COVID-19 cases among students. Just across the border, the University of New Hampshire has 18 active cases,...
by Marina Schauffler | October 3, 2019
Imagine yourself for a moment as a college student, seated around a seminar table with 19 classmates. If that room was on the University of Maine campus in Orono, nine of the students at that table (statistically speaking) would be from families in the bottom 60...
by Marina Schauffler | May 23, 2019
On Mother’s Day, I received a surprise gift. In the peach tree just outside our kitchen, an eastern bluebird and Baltimore oriole alighted simultaneously. It was approaching dusk, and the departing sun lit up the brilliant hues of each bird. That fleeting illumination...
by Marina Schauffler | February 14, 2019
A recent report by the University of Maine Climate Change Institute offers a vivid reminder not to overlook the power of ecological connections. Clear links, like lobster populations responding to warming sea water, are easy to grasp. But this “Coastal Maine Climate...
by John Christie | November 11, 2013
Editor’s note: Nearly 30 years ago, Harper’s Magazine created its Harper’s Index, ©, a one-page listing of “ironic statistics arranged for thoughtful effect.” The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting herein launches our annual Maine version of the index,...
