Randy Smith, farm manager of Aroostook Farm, one of five experimental farms operated by the University of Maine, spoke with the Associated Press for a report about Aroostook County’s potato crop. Farmers in the county say the amount of rain and sun was perfect this year, as the three-week harvest begins, according to the article. […]
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Jim Dwyer, crops specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was featured on WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle) speaking about how to manage garden pests. Dwyer, who surveys area potato fields for weeds, insects and diseases, says UMaine Extension has different traps and programs to alert growers about when certain insects will be […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported Lobster Unlimited, a company started by University of Maine researchers and an undergraduate, will take part in a business pitch contest hosted by AOL founder Steve Case on Oct. 2. Case announced earlier this year that his investment firm’s Rise of the Rest tour would count Portland as a stop, […]
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Catherine Schmitt, communications director for Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Maine Calling” radio program. Schmitt, who is a science writer and author of “The President’s Salmon,” took part in the show that focused on efforts to bring back the populations of […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for the political analysis piece, “LePage’s nomination freeze hasn’t hogtied government — yet.” Gov. Paul LePage’s recent move to further delay a round of nominations to Maine boards and commissions has drawn attention to the appointment process, according […]
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The Maine Edge carried a University of Maine news release announcing that for the fourth consecutive year, UMaine is hosting two Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants, one in Mandarin Chinese and the other in Arabic. Ming-Tso Chien of Taiwan and Yahya Mahmoud Elsayed of Egypt have been awarded Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Program […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Mount Desert Islander published a news release advancing a concert in Southwest Harbor by The Silver Duo, chamber musicians and University of Maine music professors Noreen and Phillip Silver. Acadia Family Center will present the concert at the home of Dr. Dick Dimond at 2:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 3. Seating […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported WABI (Channel 5) will televise two University of Maine football games beginning with Saturday’s home opener against the University of Rhode Island.The broadcasts were made possible through a contract with the American Sports Network, according to the article. ASN will produce the games and provide the on-air talent for the […]
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University of Maine researcher Paul Mayewski and the Climate Change Institute are lauded in the recent World Ocean Radio program “Climate Future Planning.” Host Peter Neill, director of the World Ocean Observatory, hails the work of Mayewski and CCI for creating a “software matrix that relates changes in the environment to plausible, scalable scenarios and […]
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John Jemison, a soil and water quality specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with WVII (Channel 7) for a report about the Orono Community Gardens. This was the 11th season that Jemison has taught a group of community members how to garden organically, according to the report. “It started when it started […]
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