WFVX (FOX 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) and WGME (CBS 13 in Portland) interviewed Colt Knight, associate professor and livestock educator with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, on how outbreaks of the bird flu are contributing to the rise in the cost of eggs due to a national shortage. “It’s a real gut punch whenever you […]
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News Center Maine reported on the $22 million investment from Gov. Janet Mills and Maine’s Congressional delegation to Maine’s Forest Bioproducts Advanced Manufacturing Tech Hub, aimed at positioning the state as a global leader in forest based biomaterial production and manufacturing. The University of Maine is advancing plans to launch its Forest Bioproducts Technology Maturation […]
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Acadia National Park’s podcast, “Sea to Trees,” featured University of Maine graduate student Marisa Monroe to talk about her research in wildlife, fisheries and conservation biology. The interview follows her for a night in the field.
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Alaska Beacon and Anchorage Daily News featured Qiujie “Angie” Zheng’s paper titled “Consumers’ Valuation for Local Foods: The Case of ‘Alaska Grown,’” which was recently published in theJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. The study is based on surveys and interviews of shoppers at Anchorage grocery stores and farmers markets conducted by University of Alaska […]
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The Bangor Daily News and WFVX (FOX 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) reported on the new criminal justice major launching September 2025 in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine. Housed in the Department of Sociology, the degree program is intended to help address the continued demand for expertise in criminal […]
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Spectrum News interviewed University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias President Joan Ferrini-Mundy on a feasibility study that will give detailed guidance about what it would take to bring a public medical school to Maine. The University of Maine System (UMS) will partner with the nation’s leading medical education consultant, Tripp Umbach, to […]
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Popular Science, Earth.com, IFL Science, Daily Galaxy and Live Science highlighted a study led by Jasmine Saros, associate director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, which found that lakes in West Greenland began emitting carbon and decreased in water quality following record heat and precipitation. Saros and a team of researchers concluded that the […]
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The Daily Camera out of Boulder, Colorado, interviewed Elizabeth Allan, professor of higher education leadership at the University of Maine, on her expertise on the topic of hazing and a national comprehensive study on hazing that she completed in 2008. Allan said hazing continues to go largely unreported today, which makes it hard to understand […]
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Rachel Fowler, biology laboratory coordinator at the University of Maine, wrote a story featured in Park Science magazine on a study in which she led that aimed to understand the vulnerability of lakes in Acadia National Park to harmful algal blooms. The study showed that two lakes in Acadia that supply public drinking water were […]
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The Portland Press Herald featured University of Maine researchers who are developing Firefighting Biogel, an alternative to traditional firefighting foam that’s free from a group of chemicals known as PFAS. The gel is expected to be both safer for the environment and for those fighting fires. James Anderson, an engineer at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and […]
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