WLBZ and WVII reported Thursday’s meeting of the Northeast Regional Migration Monitoring Network at UMaine. UMaine ornithologist Rebecca Holberton, one of the coordinators of the network, was interviewed about the need for monitoring the patterns of migrating birds in the Gulf of Maine.
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Maine Public Radio interviewed Aram Calhoun, a UMaine professor of wetland ecology, about a proposal before the Maine legislature to loosen restrictions on development near vernal pools. Calhoun told the interviewer a reduction of buffers could wipe out pool-breeding amphibians in Maine. She added that since 2006 no permits have been denied because of a […]
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The Portland Press Herald has a story mentioning the work of University of Maine economist Stephen Reiling. A professor in UMaine’s School of Economics, Reiling is working with the Maine Snowmobile Association on a survey that will go to snowmobile clubs around the state to determine the future direction of club, municipal and capital equipment […]
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UMaine Professor Emeritus Katherine Musgrave was inducted into the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame during a Saturday ceremony in Augusta. The Bangor Daily News covered the event, which also included the induction of Sen. Susan Collins. Musgrave, who continues to teach nutrition courses, has been a UMaine faculty member for more than 40 years. UMaine […]
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Bangor television stations Channel 5 (WABI), Channel 2 (WLBZ) and Channel 7 (WVII) interviewed Cooperative Extension educator and maple syrup expert Kathy Hopkins and Francis Avery, who operates the University of Maine’s Thomas J. Corcoran Sugar House Thursday for a feature on the maple syrup season, now well under way with cold nights and warm […]
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Research done by James McConnon, UMaine Cooperative Extension specialist and economics professor, was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News column about women and work. The column, which is the first of a new series called Women@Work, states McConnon’s research has found 30 percent of microbusinesses in Maine are owned by women.
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UMaine physiologist Harold “Dusty” Dowse was the subject of a BDN story in its Conversations with Maine series. Dowse discussed his interest in breadmaking, karate, and how he came to teach comparative anatomy at UMaine.
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Contact: Mary Tyler, (207) 581-2559 or Mary.Tyler@umit.maine.edu University of Maine zoology Professor Mary S. Tyler has won the 2011 Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize from the Society of Developmental Biology. Tyler’s research in developmental biology includes the area of genetic controls and tissue interactions during embryonic development, which she examines using experimental and histological techniques. […]
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UMaine alumnus Douglas Denico was recently named to the position of Maine State Forester, according to the Bangor Daily News. The article noted Denico received his bachelor’s in forestry and master’s in forest economics from UMaine’s School of Forestry. MPBN Radio had a story about Kenneth Fletcher, an alum with a bachelor’s in forest management, […]
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Contacts: Alice Kelley, (207) 866-3422, (207) 745-6785 or akelley@maine.edu; Paul Myer, (207) 581-3756; Keiko Myer, (207) 581-2697 ORONO — Several University of Maine faculty and staff members are available Friday for media interviews about the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan and resulting tsunami, the possible financial impacts of the natural disaster on one of the world’s […]
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