University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management specialist and professor of biology Jim Dill was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News feature article about a local family’s home-made insect repellant, Buggleblue. Dill said he expects mosquito and black fly populations to be, or to seem, about normal this year. He also discussed some of the […]
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The Channel 7 (WVII) May 23 evening news report featured the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Senior Companion Program, which matches older volunteers with elders, many of whom are living at home alone, to provide companionship, conversation and camaraderie. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor and ornamental horticulturist Lois Berg Stack was interviewed for a May 23 Channel 7 (WVII) news report how to handle giant hogweed, a large, attractive plant with a chemical in its sap that burns the skin when exposed to sunlight. State horticulturists suggest eradicating the weed, but only after […]
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University of Maine political scientist Amy Fried was a guest Thursday on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network call-in program Maine Calling on civility and politics, with former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell and Jeffrey Selinger, a Bowdoin College government professor. Fried observed that the unprecedented incivility in national politics is reflected in Maine politics, but to […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried an Associated Press report and an online video about the annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative conference held Thursday at, and co-organized by, the University of Maine. More than 1,000 Maine middle and high school students participated in multiple breakout groups on computer game creation and software applications, and collaborated with […]
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University of Maine researchers’ work studying lamprey eel spawning was cited in a Bangor Daily News blog about Atlantic salmon by outdoors writer John Holyoke. Holyoke wrote that UMaine researchers informed him that lamprey spawning in tributaries of the Penobscot River could benefit spawning salmon, since lampreys clear silt during their nesting process, which could […]
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The coastal newspaper The Free Press published an article about the postponement of the launch of a test wind-energy turbine off Monhegan Island from this summer to 2013 because of pending permits for the project. Habib Dagher, director of the UMaine Advanced Structures & Composites Center, told the paper that all of the permits are […]
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The science news Phys.Org website has posted a University of Maine article about UMaine marine scientist Robert Steneck’s perspective on cod stocks, the subject of an commentary in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Steneck discussed why fisheries management should include the interaction among multiple species, particularly predators and prey, as indicators of […]
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A column in the United Kingdom’s Huffington Post about disparity in earnings among various occupations cited research by University of Maine economist Todd Gabe, whose research has shown that people in many creative jobs, like physicists, writers, artists and actors, are paid less than people in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields. Gabe’s observation that […]
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UMaine is building a new facility to support the Black Bears’ baseball and softball teams, according to a report in the Bangor Daily News. The facility will be a batting pavilion, funds for which were raised from private donors. The batting facility will be available for use by youth baseball and softball teams in the […]
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