The University of Maine has joined the growing number of communities that have made the shift to single-stream recycling, a system that simplifies recycling for the entire campus community. Casella Waste Management was selected to manage the new recycling method through a competitive, publicly advertised process in July of 2011.
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University of Maine President Paul Ferguson will lead off the first in a series of interdisciplinary research workshops of the 2011-2012 academic year on Friday, Sept. 9 from 12-1:30 p.m. in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union.
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Sandra Caron, UMaine professor of family relations and human sexuality, and J. Michael Hodgson, recently retired college football coach and former UMaine tight end, were interviewed for the television news magazine program “207” on Channel 2 (WLBZ) and Channel 6 (WCSH) about a book they co-wrote, “Tackling Football: A Woman’s Guide to Understanding the College […]
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The effects of low levels of arsenic — like those in drinking water — on a healthy innate immune response and one compromised by the gene mutation that causes cystic fibrosis will be the focus of research at the University of Maine funded by a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
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Portland television station WCSH interviewed UMaine Cooperative Extension horticulturalist Kate Garland about how to clear downed trees and tree limbs. Garland said limbs should be pruned in a way that minimizes the chance of doing further damage to the tree. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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A Lewiston Sun Journal news report about damage to farms in western Maine following Hurricane Irene included comments from Greg Koller, who runs UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Highmoor Farm in Monmouth, and Extension educator Tori Jackson. Although toppled trees are an issue, Koller said, more crops may fall due to soft ground conditions. Jackson said farmers […]
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The Town of Orono is discussing how to move forward on building a skate park on the UMaine campus, the Bangor Daily News reported. Town Manager Sophie Wilson said the park would be built on campus, using a $10,000 donation made years ago to the town for the purpose of building a skate park, if […]
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The University of Maine chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon (Sig Ep) fraternity is hosting its annual Camp Out for YouthAIDS on the corner of the Mall, near Fogler Library and Memorial Union at UMaine. Sig Ep members will be on the mall, around the clock, collecting donations for YouthAIDS through Friday Sept. 2. This campout […]
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The National Science Foundation Science360 science news Web site features a UMaine research project on Monday, Aug. 29. School of Marine Sciences professors Malcolm Shick and Mark Wells led an international team that determined that limitations on available iron contribute to choral bleaching. The research was published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography.
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Comments from UMaine Cooperative Extension sustainable agriculture specialist Ellen Mallory were included in a Foster’s Daily Democrat newspaper story about the revived local wheat movement. Mallory said a surge of consumer interest in locally grown food that has brought back the New England wheat industry, and farmers have recognized an opportunity to add another crop […]
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