The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release announcing the University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a workshop about transferring family farms and forest product businesses from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8 at Waterville Elks Club. The workshop’s focus is to help families minimize risk and make informed decisions […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported a short video on lobsters and climate change that was created by O’Chang Comics in partnership with the Maine Sea Grant Program at the University of Maine is up for a national award. The video, which was based on the UMaine report “Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update,” explains how rising […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) reported on a candlelight vigil that was held at the University of Maine for those affected by the Paris terrorist attack. The event, which was organized by the University of Maine French Club, included a moment of silence for those lost in the recent attack, as well as similar acts of terrorism […]
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network aired the 10th Cohen Lecture as part of its “Speaking in Maine” public affairs lecture series. For this year’s talk, former Defense Secretary William Cohen was joined by Gen. Joseph Ralston, former supreme allied commander in Europe, and Ambassador Nicholas Burns, former undersecretary of state for political affairs, for the […]
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The Maine Edge reported Maine EPSCoR at the University of Maine has announced a new collaboration with the Maine Discovery Museum in Bangor. As part of its Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET) project, a saltwater touch tank was installed at the museum to promote learning in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, according […]
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Gayle Zydlewski, a marine sciences professor at the University of Maine, spoke with the Maine Public Broadcasting Network and Associated Press about research on the endangered shortnose sturgeon. UMaine researchers confirmed that, for the first time in more than a century, shortnose sturgeon have returned to the historic habitat upriver of the Veazie Dam, according […]
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WABI (Channel 5) spoke with Bruce Segee, the Henry R. and Grace V. Butler Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maine; Craig Mason, a UMaine professor of education; and Ami Gaspar, an advanced computing outreach specialist with IT, about a three-year, $2 million research project that will use a popular video […]
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The Gleaning Initiative, a partnership between Healthy Acadia and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was mentioned in a Down East magazine article on Hannah Semler, a Hancock County farmer who participates in the program. Through the initiative, Semler, Maine’s only full-time professional gleaning coordinator who works for Healthy Acadia, takes calls from Hancock County […]
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network interviewed Robert Rice, a wood science professor at the University of Maine, for the report, “Sappi’s reinvestment helps keep mills afloat despite falling demand for paper.” Struggling mills in Maine have had to declare bankruptcy, cut jobs or close. Sappi Paper, which operates mills in Westbrook and Somerset, has been […]
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A 2011 waste characterization study by the University of Maine School of Economics was cited in the Bangor Daily News article, “Will York’s plastic bag ban actually help the environment?” The study found that plastic bags were the sixth most common plastic thrown away in Maine, accounting for about 0.82 percent of landfill waste by […]
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