The Maine section of the American Society of Civil Engineers raised $4,700 at its annual golf tournament for scholarships for University of Maine students, according to an article in the Bangor Daily News. UMaine students interested in applying for the scholarships may contact the Department of Civil Engineering at UMaine through its website.
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Dr. Harold Borns, University of Maine Professor Emeritus of Glacial and Quaternary Geology, was featured by Channel 7 for his Ice Age Trail map—which includes 46 destinations in Downeast, Maine that people can visit to learn about unique landscape formed by glaciers. The map now is available in digital form as an iPad app called […]
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The University of Maine 4-H Summer of Science Team was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article about a collaborative picnic in Portland to nourish youth and combat food insecurity (https://bangordailynews.com/2015/07/10/health/portland-picnic-aims-to-combat-food-insecurity/). At the picnic, about 275 meals of sandwiches, chips and watermelon were given to those attending younger than 18 years old, according to the […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, was included in WABI-TV5 coverage of the Maine Chapter of the Fulbright Association’s presentations on the Arctic and climate change in Castine. “We are already experiencing great change and that great change affects our health and our wealth,” said Mayewski. His talk was titled: […]
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World News carried University of Maine media releases about UMaine Darling Marine Center scientists discovering ocean chloride buried in sediment (http://article.wn.com/view/2015/07/10/DMC_Scientists_Discover_Ocean_Chloride_Buried_in_Sediment_Un/) and the DMC Science on Tap seminar on Spying on Oceans with Satellites (http://article.wn.com/view/2015/07/10/Spying_on_Oceans_with_Satellites_Robots_Focus_of_DMC_Science/).
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The University of Maine Aroostook Farm was in a Portland Press Herald article about Maine malt for local craft beer (http://www.pressherald.com/2015/07/12/maine-malt-for-local-craft-beer-has-arrived/). Aroostook Farm in Presque Isle is participating in malt barley field trials. Joel Alex of Blue Ox Malthouse began making malt a couple of months ago using a system built for him at the […]
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The University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor was mentioned in a Boston Globe piece about the Maine Art Museum Trail. “… that’s the joy of the Maine Art Museum Trail. The same artists keep cropping up in different places: There are Hartleys here, Homers there, Wyeths, Hoppers, Zorachs, and Katzs all scattered hither […]
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The University of Maine Sea Grant Program was included in a Bangor Daily News article about the Eastport Area Chamber of Commerce regional visitor information center in the Eastport Port Authority building. The port authority designed the building to meet community needs and to rent space to organizations, including Maine Sea Grant, according to the […]
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Aquaculture Magazine published an article about Acadia Harvest, a commercial land-based, indoor fish farm, that’s partnering with the University of Maine and its Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research on an $8 million project to raise black sea bass and California yellowtail. “Ninety percent of our seafood today is imported. We’d like to change that. We […]
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Hal Borns, professor emeritus with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for the article, “Our rocks: Glacial hitchhikers dot Maine’s lakes, lands.” According to Borns, large rocks around the state are glacial erratics. “As the ice moves along, it picks up […]
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