The Maine Monitor interviewed Adam Daigneault, director of the University of Maine School of Forest Resources, on recent multimillion-dollar investments and forest product manufacturing and how they support the logging industry. “The more that we can make that is closer to a finished product, the more value we can get out of the woods that […]
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Maine Public featured Michael Socolow, professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, and Maizy Weirich, a UMaine student journalist, on a segment of “Maine Calling” titled “How We Get Our News.” Socolow and Weirish join a discussion on the societal impact of how receiving news has changed over the decades.
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Sara Lindsay, professor of marine science at the University of Maine, spoke with News Center Maine about sea squirts, an invasive species that causes problems for oyster and kelp farmers. Researchers like Lindsay are working to better understand sea squirts, how to manage them and how Maine’s changing climate is impacting them.
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Sean Smith, director of the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC), spoke with WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) on a $26 million dredging project in Portland Harbor. “Once you start to move material around, when you’re dredging and even moving the boats around to get in place to do that, you stir up these […]
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Maine Public featured Shawn Laatsch, director of the Versant Power Astronomy Center, on a segment of the radio show “Maine Calling” about astronomy, in which topics such as meteors, comets and gift ideas for stargazers were discussed.
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UMaine alumnus Nick Foukal was featured in an article in the New York Times about a two-week research expedition he led. Foukal guided a team working in Greenland’s icy coastal waters to install deep-ocean instruments that track changes in temperature, salinity and currents. Foukal said the scarcity of data from this remote region and the […]
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Martha Stewart Living quoted ornamental horticulture educator Ankit Singh from University of Maine Cooperative Extension in an article on caring for spider plants. According to Singh, “overwatering reduces oxygen in the root zone and can lead to root rot. When roots are damaged, they cannot take up water or nutrients properly, causing leaves to turn […]
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In stories from The Independent and WABI (Channel 5 in Bangor), University of Maine food safety expert Gulson Akdemir Evrendilek was quoted on how to enjoy holiday leftovers without risking foodborne illnesses. She advised making sure gravy is brought to a full boil before consuming, and is not kept for longer than one or two […]
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In interviews with Portland Press Herald and Maine Public, Erin Percival Carter, associate professor of marketing at the University of Maine, said economic uncertainty can make shoppers more responsive to holiday sales because feelings of scarcity influence buying decisions. She noted that people often turn to small, affordable luxuries during stressful times, a pattern known […]
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Catharine Biddle, associate professor of education at the University of Maine, was featured in a New York Times op-ed that explores why children in rural America are dealing with increasing barriers to support services. She said that rural districts are struggling to provide them due to the economy and cost per-student. The teacher shortage has […]
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