UMaine alumnus Silas Rossi, who owns a mountain-climbing guide business called Alpine Logic, was featured in a Bangor Daily News article. Rossi, who last week became the first Maine native to be certified through the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations – the highest professional award for mountaineering and skiing – was introduced to mountain […]
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In a story about changes this fall on the campus of the Goodwill-Hinckley School, Maine Community College System President John Fitzsimmons told Bangor television station WLBZ that Kennebec Valley Community College will start a new two-year Agricultural Science degree on the Hinckley campus, a program which will connect to the agricultural programs at UMaine. The […]
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Comments from Jim Gilbert, a UMaine wildlife ecologist who studies seals, were included in a Boston Globe story about the mysterious recent deaths of five adult gray seals on Cape Cod beaches. The article linked the seals, which were found with gunshot wounds to their heads, to tensions with local fishermen who complain that seals […]
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An Oregon Public Radio feature on algae blooms and their threat to Northwest salmon included UMaine Associate Professor of Marine Sciences Mark Wells, who is a member of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s ECOHAB project. The research team is on San Juan Island in Washington State, trying to figure out what causes spikes in […]
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Kathleen Bell of the UMaine School of Economics faculty has been elected president-elect of the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association (NAREA). NAREA is an organization made up of resource and agricultural economists, and it publishes the Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. While many of its members live in the Northeast U.S. and Canadian Maritimes, […]
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In an op-ed piece in the Bangor Daily News, Eastern Maine Development Corp. President Michael Aube lauded UMaine for embarking on development by using traditional sectors of Maine’s economy, such as forestry, farming and fishing, to advance energy, composites and aquaculture. Aube also recognized UMaine as the state’s premier postgraduate and research institution. Contact: Jessica […]
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Effective July 1, the Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders and the School of Social work will transfer to UMaine’s College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture. Earlier this year, the entire School of Economics was united in that same college.
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Two researchers at UMaine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research in Franklin were interviewed for a Maine Public Broadcasting Network radio story about work being done to revive the sea urchin industry in Maine. Nick Brown, the director of the center, and Steve Eddy, a station biologist, are examining the economic viability of farm-grown urchins on […]
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Several news outlets were on hand last week in Rockport Harbor for the launch of a lobster habitat mooring, which is a project involving the UMaine-based Lobster Institute and UMaine’s School of Aquaculture. A story on the Village Soup website, which covers midcoast Maine, mentioned UMaine’s involvement, including the work that graduate student Chris Roy […]
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ORONO, Maine – The recent cool, wet conditions in Maine may delay the state’s blueberry crop for about a week, according to David Yarborough, University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s blueberry specialist and UMaine professor of horticulture.
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