School of Food and Agriculture

Lois Berg Stack, an ornamental horticulture specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was mentioned in the latest column in the Portland Press Herald “Maine Gardener” series. In the article, “Falmouth’s use of herbicides to fight invasives proves to be a thorny issue,” the author recalls attending one of Stack’s talks on removing invasives […]

Medical Xpress published a University of Maine profile on Chantel Banus, a second-year master’s student in human nutrition. Banus, of Ashby, Massachusetts, is working to determine the factors that influence consumer purchase of seaweed products in the United States. She is conducting a survey to see what consumers are looking for in seaweed products and […]

David Yarborough, a blueberry specialist with the University of Maine’s Cooperative Extension, spoke with WVII (Channel 7) about this year’s crop. “We had a very unusual spring,” Yarborough said. “With the mild winter we didn’t get much frost in the ground. So in April we had very warm temperatures, so the plants took up water. […]

Adeseye Lasekekn has received a highly competitive Institute of Food Technologists ‘Feeding Tomorrow’ graduate scholarship.  Adeseye works on a project related to food allergens with Dr. Balu Nayak in the School of Food and Agriculture.

“If you think back a few decades ago and feel like winters were colder, the plant hardiness zones would suggest that’s right,” said Susan Erich, an agriculture professor at the University of Maine. Hardiness zones, calculated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture using the average lowest winter temperatures, have been moving north in recent decades. […]

Mary Ellen Camire, professor of food science and human nutrition at the University of Maine, was interviewed for an Associated Press article about a new method for making lower fat versions of chocolate using electric fields. The study was led by researchers at Temple University and was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy […]

Dr. Balunkeswar (Balu) Nayak, an Assistant Professor of Food Processing in the School of Food & Agriculture, has been named the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), Food Engineering Division (FED) member of the month.  He is also a recipient of the 2016 FED Volunteer award. Prior to joining at the University of Maine, he has […]