Mark Hutton and Caragh Fitzgerald of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty was quoted in a Sunday Kennebec Journal story about Mainers who are saving money on groceries by growing produce in home gardens.
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For consumers throughout the state with questions about safe food handling and preparation, leftovers or even recipes and nutrition as the holidays approach, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension team is only a phone call away for research-based answers.
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics Jim McConnon was interviewed for a recent Ellsworth American article about rising food prices taxing budget-strapped consumers. McConnon explained that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has predicted a 3-4 percent increase in food prices in 2011, largely due to escalating energy costs. Contact: George Manlove, […]
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Research on micro-businesses by University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics Jim McConnon was cited in a Bangor Daily News op-ed column about how the state’s economy would improve if each of Maine’s 109,560 micro-businesses, or sole proprietorships, could hire just one person. Writer Eloise Vitelli, program director for the statewide Women, […]
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A Bangor Daily News article about a mysterious pigeon graffiti artist in Bangor included comments from Kat Johnson, a UMaine Intermedia MFA student. Johnson said she appreciates the graffiti – which is made from a paste of flour and water and is therefore temporary – takes an icon of an urban environment and elevates it […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal ran a Maine Campus story about a UMaine College Republicans meeting at which Maine Republican Party Chair Charlie Webster spoke to about 20 people. Webster discussed issues such as gay marriage and the recent campaign and election. The story included comments from students Derek Lane, the head of UMaine’s College Democrats, […]
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Habib Dagher, the director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was interviewed by Sustainable Business Weekly, which claims to be the world’s largest sustainable business podcast. Dagher discussed the DeepCwind initiative which seeks to harness wind power in the deep waters of the Gulf of Maine. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Robert C. White, recently retired associate provost and dean for the University of Maine Division of Lifelong Learning, has received the Outstanding Service to Continuing Education Award for the New England Region from the national University Professional and Continuing Education Association.
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ORONO — The University of Maine’s Continuing Education Division is accepting course registrations for a special three-credit class designed around the annual Camden Conference in February focusing on the United States’ strengths and weaknesses in a 21st century world.
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Bangor’s WVII television station had a report on a pilot plant that is in the works at UMaine to make cellulose nanofibrils, a pulp-based super-strong material that could be a replacement for petroleum-based plastic materials. Hemant Pendse, the director of UMaine’s Forest Bioproducts Research Institute, said in an interview the pilot plant will allow UMaine […]
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