The Bangor Daily News and CentralMaine.com promoted the Cooking for Crowds workshop series, a collection of food safety training programs for volunteer cooks, offered by University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Visit the UMaine Extension website for the full schedule and registration.
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A Times Record column about gefilte fish and food waste reduction highlighted the University of Maine Dr. Matthew Highlands Pilot Plant, with a particular focus on its research to make food products from green crabs. “With the help of a deboning machine, they can separate the not-so-meaty crabs from their meat, resulting in a pile […]
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Joy Cartwright, who will graduate from University of Maine this spring with a double major in marketing and sociology, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News about whether TikTok should be banned in the United States. Cartwright researchers the risks and sociological implications of social media in the U.S. “In an age of […]
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Sierra Magazine featured an essay entitled “The Asteroid and the Fern” that Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, wrote for the collection “Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story From Despair to Possibility” edited by Rebecca Solnit and […]
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The Bangor Daily News shared a profile of Kaitlin McCullough, a UMaine senior from Ellsworth majoring in music education who will be singing the National Anthem at the 2023 University of Maine commencement ceremonies.
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WABI-TV (Channel 5 in Bangor) reported on the University of Maine Student Life’s Fresh Check Day event. “Students just don’t have as much support and they feel they do, so this gives them that opportunity to understand there is a community behind them not only from the school but from outside as well,” said Kevin […]
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The Ellsworth American noted that Liam Berigan and Emily Filiberti, graduate student researchers at the University of Maine studying bird migration using remote tracking technology, will present a talk titled “Migratory Marvels: Understanding Woodcock and Golden-winged Warbler Migration” with Downeast Audubon on April 12 at 7 p.m. at the Moore Community Center in Ellsworth.
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The Daily Bulldog shared that Maine students ages 14–18 are invited to a 4-H Agriculture Symposium at the University of Maine April 20–21. For more information, visit the event webpage on the UMaine Extension website.
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In an article about the challenges faced by young oyster farmers as working waterfronts disappear, Civil Eats cited 2019 data from the University of Maine that shows only 20 miles of Maine’s 5,300-mile coastline supports working-waterfront activities, a number that has decreased 20 percent since 2002. The data also show that working waterfronts generate more […]
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Lori Schnieders, associate professor of psychology at the University of Maine at Machias, spoke to the Maine Monitor about a program that allows noncredentialed, adult “navigators,” also known as community health workers, to escort students to private rooms within the schools for their teletherapy sessions in an attempt to address shortages in mental health professionals. […]
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