The Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5) and WLBZ (Channel 2) covered the University of Maine women’s basketball team’s Play 4Kay game. The team raised $13,585 for the Kay Yow Foundation to support breast cancer research. Coach Richard Barron, who dyed his hair pink for the game, made good on his promise to shave his […]
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A study being conducted by University of Maine researchers to determine what flowers are most attractive to bees was the topic of the latest column in the Portland Press Herald’s Maine Gardener series. UMaine professors Alison Dibble, Lois Berg Stack and Frank Drummond are conducting the study at gardens in Old Town, Jonesboro and Blue […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported 20-year-old University of Maine student Margaret Howson was elected chair of the Hampden Republican Committee at the caucus held by the Penobscot County Republicans. She will also head Hampden’s 23-member delegation to the Republican state convention in April. Howson, who is majoring in English and psychology and minoring in political […]
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network spoke with Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, for a report titled “Weak Canadian ‘Loonie’ worries Maine retailers.” Bayer said cheaper Canadian goods currently aren’t making a difference for Maine’s live lobster market, but he predicts there could be an effect on processed […]
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The Morning Sentinel cited research from the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine for an article about a proposed bill designed to protect Maine’s lobster industry by banning two pesticides that have been partially blamed for hurting lobster populations in New York and Connecticut. According to research from the Lobster Institute, the lobster industry […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported three former University of Maine hockey players will take part in the winter Olympics. Goalie Jimmy Howard, who plays for the Detroit Red Wings and played for UMaine from 2002 to 2005, will play for Team USA in Sochi. Howard’s Detroit teammate Gustav Nyquist was named to the Swedish Olympic […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported a proposed seven-mile methane gas pipeline between Juniper Ridge landfill in Old Town and the University of Maine has been scrapped because of lack of financing, according to an official with the landfill’s parent company Casella Waste Systems Inc. UMaine spokeswoman Margaret Nagle said the university and Casella are reserving […]
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James Warhola, a political science professor and chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Maine, was a guest on an episode of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on Russia — U.S. relations and Russia’s role in the world today. Warhola spoke about security during the […]
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Growing Produce cited a Bangor Daily News article on the introduction of two new potato varieties developed by the Maine Potato Board in partnership with the University of Maine. The new varieties — the Easton and the Sebec — were developed over the past several growing seasons and are targeted for the french fry and […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported on the Maine FoodCorps program, the state branch of a national program that teaches healthful eating, expands school-based gardens and increases locally grown food in school cafeterias. The University of Maine Cooperative Extension oversees the Maine program that is funded by the Maine Commission for Community Service, with 20 percent […]
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