Students working on UMaine project with Roger Merchant from the Cooperative Extension faculty are developing tourism development recommendations for the towns of Milo and Brownville. Merchant, who is teaching a community tourism planning course in the School of Forest Resources, conducted a similar project in Greenville last year. A story was reported in the Bangor […]
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included an opinion column, “The ‘right to work’ – for lower pay,” by William Murphy and Valerie Carter from the UMaine Bureau of Labor Education. The column is based on a recent bureau report on those laws, which exist in several U.S. sates.
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Jeff Hecker, dean of UMaine’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, responded in a Bangor Daily News letter to the editor to an op-ed column by UMaine historian Jay Bregman that appeared in the Monday BDN about the elimination of the Latin major. In his letter, Hecker said Latin instruction will still be available to […]
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A letter to the editor in Waterville’s Morning Sentinel newspaper mentioned a UMaine study that looked at the relationship between water clarity and shorefront property values. The letter, which is regarding municipalities that dump snow into rivers, lakes and coastal waters, referenced the1996 study which found that a 1-meter reduction in lake water clarity, on […]
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The Portland Press Herald on Friday has an interview with UMaine interim athletic director Steve Abbott. Although he’s not sure if he’ll apply for the permanent position, Abbott says his focus is on fundraising for improvements to Alfond Arena, Memorial Gym, and the field house.
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CNBC has posted a Reuters story that includes comments from a UMaine Cooperative Extension educator about the start of the maple sugar season. Kathy Hopkins, who is based in Skowhegan, said large maple syrup producers are usually tapped and ready to go at the very beginning of the season because of volatility in Maine weather […]
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An article on the eHow.com website, based in Washington state, about the pros and cons of raking leaves in the fall cited advice from University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator Barbara Murphy. Murphy said allowing leaves to compost in place on lawns is a matter of personal preference and that decomposing leaves don’t really contribute […]
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The Wall Street Journal ran an Associated Press story about PCB-resistant fish in New York’s Hudson River included comments from Adria Elskus, a UMaine-based fish toxicologist who works for the U.S. Geological Survey. Elskus commented on an article posted Thursday in the online version of the journal Science, said several researchers have been studying fish […]
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UMaine was one of four college campuses around the state to host the fifth annual Junior Achievement of Maine’s Titan Challenge business simulation, according to a Lewiston Sun Journal article. Nearly 75 Maine high school students participated in the event, which is aimed at increasing students’ understanding of the business world.
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UMaine researchers were among a group meeting this week to promote the research and development of environmentally safe and sustainable plastics, according to a report from Portland television station WGME. The Sustainable Bioplastics Council of Maine is consortium of manufacturers, agricultural groups, nonprofit organizations and university researchers, and is meeting Friday in Falmouth.
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