The Bangor Daily News spoke with Kate Garland, a horticultural professional with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for an article about what to plant before the last frost of winter. Some cold-hardy plants, including carrots, corn, parsnips, spinach, turnips, peas, onions, lettuce and seed potatoes, can survive a light or moderate frost if they have […]
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The Associated Press quoted Dana Humphrey, dean of the University of Maine College of Engineering, in an article about this year’s “muddier and bumpier than most” mud season in New England. An especially rainy and snowy winter contributed to more severe potholes, bumps in the road, and melting snow flowing into rivers and creating mud, […]
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WABI (Channel 5) previewed a job fair to be hosted by the University of Maine’s Office of Facilities Management from 5–7 p.m. March 26 at the Service Building Complex. Members of the UMaine community interested in a job with Facilities Management are invited to attend. All trade shops will be represented, according to WABI.
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Aaron Putnam, George H. Denton assistant professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, wrote an obituary for Wallace “Wally” Smith Broecker that was published in Science magazine. Putnam wrote Broecker, who died Feb. 18 at the age of 87, was “one of the most influential Earth scientists of […]
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The County reported five students from the University of Maine’s School of Performing Arts visited Houlton Elementary School to perform a touring show on March 20. The cast performed “Can You Imagine?” an original play with lots of improvisation, at Houlton Elementary and nine other Maine schools during their spring break. The students — Ethan […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot mentioned an outreach effort by University of Maine Cooperative Extension in an article covering a March 20 public forum focused on ways to strengthen Maine prisoners’ re-entry process to work and community after release. As an example of a program facilitating successful re-entry, Maine Department of Corrections Commissioner Randall Liberty mentioned […]
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The Penobscot Times advanced “Climate and Food,” the sixth annual Human Dimensions of Climate Change film series at the University of Maine. The series begins March 26 with “Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story,” which reveals global consequences of the systemic obsession with expiration dates, perfect produce and portion sizes. “Seeds of Time,” which […]
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Yale Climate Connections quoted and cited research by Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, a researcher at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, in the article “In nature, premature springs are creating new winners and losers.” The average spring in the eastern United States is starting earlier as a result of warming temperatures. Some plants and animals […]
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The Portland Press Herald cited a University of Maine Cooperative Extension fact sheet in an article on a proposed gypsy-moth quarantine for the state. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry wants to expand a partial state quarantine established in 2010 to cover the whole state, to make it easier to ship forest products […]
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Joan Ferrini-Mundy, president of the University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias, was a recent guest on WVOM’s “George Hale and Ric Tyler Show.” President Ferrini-Mundy reflected on her time in the position so far and discussed R&D, workforce development and more, as well as what’s next for the campuses.
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