University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator and cranberry specialist Charlie Armstrong said in an article in the Maine Sunday Telegram warm weather resulting from climate change could be behind this year’s successful cranberry harvest in Maine. Armstrong also said crops like peaches, typically better suited for warmer, southern climates, could become more common in the […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension Director John Rebar was interviewed by Channel 8 (WAGM) in Aroostook County about several UMaine Extension programs that help Maine’s agricultural economies, including the Maine Food System and 4-H Youth development programs. Rebar said UMaine Extension also will hire a new soil scientist for the Presque Isle office to work […]
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A Maine Public Broadcasting Radio report on the increasing demand for natural gas included comments from Richard Hill, a UMaine professor emeritus of engineering. Hill said one of the reasons people have a long wait for natural gas hookups is that the construction of highways has led to a more spread-out, rather that cluster-based, lifestyle. […]
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David Handley, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator and vegetable and small fruit specialist, was interviewed for Channel 2 (WLBZ) report on the spotted wing drosophila, a fruit fly that has Maine’s blueberry growers worried because it attacks ripening and not just rotten fruit. Handley, who is based at UMaine Extension’s Highmoor Farm in […]
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Robert Bayer, director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, was interviewed for a story in the coastal Free Press newspaper about a half yellow and half blue lobster recently caught off North Haven in the Gulf of Maine. Bayer said such oddly colored lobsters are extraordinarily rare and often hermaphroditic. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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University of Maine professor of electrical and computer engineering Rick Eason was interviewed as part of coverage by Channel 5 (WABI), the Bangor Daily News and Channel 2 (WLBZ) of a hands-on science experiment at Bangor High School, where students launched Thursday a high-altitude scientific balloon. Loaded with a GPS tracking system and sensors to […]
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Tony Brinkley, a UMaine English professor and senior faculty associate of UMaine’s Franco-American Centre, was part of a study that found Franco-Americans earn less, have less education and are younger than their non-Franco counterparts in Maine, according to a story in the Bangor Daily News. Brinkley and a colleague from Bowdoin College conducted a survey […]
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Mainebiz magazine and South Portland radio station WGAN posted on their websites a report about the spotted wing drosophila fruit fly and noted University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s research into the relatively new-to-Maine pest. UMaine Extension experts are collecting the fly, which attacks soft fruit such as blueberries, for research purposes. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) […]
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A 2008 University of Maine study about hazing among post-secondary students was noted in a Christian Science Monitor report about a hazing incident involving a California high school soccer team. The report cited statistics from the study that 47 percent of students surveyed had experienced hazing before coming to college and 55 percent of students […]
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A 1992 analysis of the golden ratio written by UMaine professor of computer science George Markowsky was referenced in a New York Times blog post. The blog, about the legendary geometry concept, noted that Markowsky’s “Misconceptions about the Golden Ratio” analysis, which appeared in The College Mathematics Journal, is an early trenchant analysis of the […]
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