UMaine’s work with the Richmond, Maine-based company Kennebec River Biosciences, was mentioned in a story in the Times Record newspaper. The story noted the company has worked with UMaine to foster relationships between the private and public sectors. Company CEO and President William Keleher is a UMaine graduate. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Channel 7 (WVII) television news Tuesday evening featured the new special issue of the Maine Policy Review, a 248-page compilation of essays, articles and research about food and food systems in Maine, recently published by the UMaine Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. Ann Acheson, researcher at the center and editor of the special issue, was […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported about the first class of students who graduated from Cod Academy, an education program that provides classroom training and hands-on experience at a commercial fish farm that raises cod. UMaine’s Aquaculture Institute is a partner in the program. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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An Inside Higher Ed story about the student farm movement in North America included comments from Mary Plaisted, a UMaine senior who has managed UMaine’s Black Bear Food Guild. Plaisted said through her classes in UMaine’s sustainable agriculture program she has gained a fuller understanding of the use of the impacts of pesticides and conventional […]
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ORONO — The University of Maine’s Margaret Chase Policy Center has published a special issue of its Maine Policy Review, a 248-page assessment of Maine’s food and food systems, ranging from economics, energy and the environment to hunger, health and nutrition.
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The Lewiston Sun Journal has a story about a book written by David B. Field, a retired UMaine professor of forest resources who is also a UMaine graduate. “Images of America: Along Maine’s Appalachian Trail” illustrates the history of the trail’s mountains and forests in Maine. Field maintained six miles of the scenic trail for […]
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UMaine graduate student Tawny Virgilio was interviewed Thursday by Channel 5 (WABI) for an evening news broadcast about a bio-surveillance project she’s doing under the supervision of entomology professor Eleanor Groden to determine the hunting habits of a wasp that catches beetles, including the destructive emerald ask borer. The wasp Cerceris fumipennis doesn’t sting people, […]
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The website for Biomass Magazine has a story about an effort to study biomass in northern Maine which is being funded by UMaine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative. UMaine-Fort Kent researcher Brian Kermath, the director of the school’s Center for Rural Sustainable Development, told the magazine his center is partnering with SSI on a project that will […]
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An article about college tuition in the weekly Independent which covers the towns of Gray, Windham and Raymond, noted the research of UMaine economist Phillip Trostel, who has written about the importance of a well-educated work force to grow prosperity and develop high-paying jobs. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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UMaine Cooperative Extension blueberry specialist and horticulture professor David Yarborough was interviewed for a Maine Public Broadcasting Network radio story about the state of the blueberry crop this summer. Yarborough said unless the region receives adequate rainfall soon, the crop could be significantly diminished. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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