The UMaine football team announced it will host on July 30 a 7-on-7 football tournament for high school teams, according to a news report on Bangor television station WABI. The report included comments from Coach Jack Cosgrove, who said the goal is to expose students in southern Maine to the UMaine campus and facilities while […]
Read more
Linda Ilse, a research assistant professor of wildlife ecology at UMaine, appeared in a Bangor Daily News photograph that went with a Tuesday morning story about a wind turbine project in the Katahdin area. Ilse told the newspaper she supports wind power, but she is concerned about the impacts on the landscape and on wildlife. […]
Read more
A Mainebiz article about the future prospects of Old Town Fuel & Fiber included several references to biofuels research being performed by UMaine’s Forest Bioproducts Research Initiative. FBRI’s work several years ago on cellulosic ethanol was mentioned, as was more recent research into biobutanol, which could be a $5 billion industry, according to the story. […]
Read more
The website Smartmeters has an item about last week’s Haskell/IEEE Energy Conference, which was held at UMaine and included representatives from UMaine who discussed the benefits, opportunities and challenges of the smart grid and energy conservation. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
Read more
A story in Foster’s Daily Democrat newspaper of New Hampshire about the long-running South Berwick Strawberry Festival included a comment from UMaine student Andrew Leitz, who volunteered to work at the festival. He told the newspaper he was home from UMaine for the summer and was looking for something fun to do. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
Read more
Comments from Rebecca Holberton, a UMaine associate professor of biology, were included in a Central Maine Morning Sentinel story about the BioDiversity Research Institute, a Maine-based center known for its research on environmental threats to birds and other wildlife. Holberton, who leads the Northeast Regional Migration Monitoring Network and collaborates with BRI, commented on the […]
Read more
A Bangor Daily News editorial about the proposition of a Maine Woods National Park noted the results of a survey conducted by the UMaine-based Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy. The survey, conducted among residents and business owners in Piscataquis County, found among other results that most respondents would like their town to become […]
Read more
The Lewiston Sun Journal announced upcoming food preservation workshops in Lisbon Falls, Mexico and Farmington. UMaine Cooperative Extension Educator Barbara Murphy said the workshops have become more popular recently as interest in food preservation has grown. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
Read more
Comments from Prof. Mohamed Musavi of UMaine’s electrical and computer engineering faculty were included in a Bangor Daily News report on Friday’s Haskell Energy Conference, hosted by UMaine at Wells Conference Center. Some 150 people attended the conference, which focused on “smart grid” issues and energy consumption.
Read more
Saturday’s Bangor Daily News featured a story about UMaine research involving Prof. Steve Coghlan, a freshwater fisheries ecology expert, graduate student Rob Hogg and their colleagues. Based at a site on Brewer’s Sedgeunkedunk Stream, the researchers are studying sea lamprey and their impact on stream ecosystems.
Read more