Year: 2012
UMaine Again Ranked as Among the Best Universities Nationwide
UMaine has been recognized again this year in multiple national college rankings for its outstanding academics and programs.
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UMaine Extension Researching Market Potential of Antioxidant-Rich Aronia Berry
With the help of UMaine Extension, an antioxidant-rich chokeberry could become a new niche crop for Maine farmers.
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Mapping the Empire
A geography professor’s historical research traces Britain’s ambitious efforts to survey its North American holdings.
Read moreUMaine Extension Specialist in Fruit Fly TV Report
David Handley, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator and vegetable and small fruit specialist, was interviewed for Channel 2 (WLBZ) report on the spotted wing drosophila, a fruit fly that has Maine’s blueberry growers worried because it attacks ripening and not just rotten fruit. Handley, who is based at UMaine Extension’s Highmoor Farm in […]
Read moreBayer Comments in Story About Rare Lobster
Robert Bayer, director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, was interviewed for a story in the coastal Free Press newspaper about a half yellow and half blue lobster recently caught off North Haven in the Gulf of Maine. Bayer said such oddly colored lobsters are extraordinarily rare and often hermaphroditic. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
Read moreMedia Coverage of UMaine Balloon Launch
University of Maine professor of electrical and computer engineering Rick Eason was interviewed as part of coverage by Channel 5 (WABI), the Bangor Daily News and Channel 2 (WLBZ) of a hands-on science experiment at Bangor High School, where students launched Thursday a high-altitude scientific balloon. Loaded with a GPS tracking system and sensors to […]
Read moreFranco-American Centre Research in Newspaper Story
Tony Brinkley, a UMaine English professor and senior faculty associate of UMaine’s Franco-American Centre, was part of a study that found Franco-Americans earn less, have less education and are younger than their non-Franco counterparts in Maine, according to a story in the Bangor Daily News. Brinkley and a colleague from Bowdoin College conducted a survey […]
Read moreUMaine Extension in Fruit Fly Reports
Mainebiz magazine and South Portland radio station WGAN posted on their websites a report about the spotted wing drosophila fruit fly and noted University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s research into the relatively new-to-Maine pest. UMaine Extension experts are collecting the fly, which attacks soft fruit such as blueberries, for research purposes. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) […]
Read moreHazing Research Noted in Christian Science Monitor
A 2008 University of Maine study about hazing among post-secondary students was noted in a Christian Science Monitor report about a hazing incident involving a California high school soccer team. The report cited statistics from the study that 47 percent of students surveyed had experienced hazing before coming to college and 55 percent of students […]
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