UMaine political science major Caleb Rosser was interviewed in a Bangor Daily News story about the first anniversary of the Affordable Health Care Act. Rosser said he has benefited from the health care overhaul because when he gained four more years of coverage despite turning 22 last fall and aging out of his parents’ insurance […]
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The Channel 6 (WCSH) Around Town web page posted a news release about the UMaine Advanced Manufacturing Center’s collaboration with an Auburn boot manufacturer to design and create a new mold for boot safety toe caps.
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The Argus Leader of Sioux Falls, S.D., has a story about tapping maple trees for sap to be turned into maple syrup. The story included a tip from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension website that only trees at least 10 inches in diameter should be tapped. More tips can be seen here on the […]
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An article about UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Kids Can Grow experimental youth gardening program in York Country was on the website of Foster’s Daily Democrat newspaper in New Hampshire. The Kids Can Grow program teaches children ages 7-12 how to grown their own vegetables, flowers and herbs. UMaine Extension Professor Frank Wertheim says in the article […]
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UMaine alumnus Mike Bordick, a former shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles baseball team and current minor-league baseball instructor was elected to the Orioles Hall of Fame, according to a story on WBAL, Baltimore’s NBC television affiliate. Before becoming a major league baseball player, Bordick led the Black Bears to College World Series berths in 1984 […]
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The Portland Press Herald has a story mentioning the work of University of Maine economist Stephen Reiling. A professor in UMaine’s School of Economics, Reiling is working with the Maine Snowmobile Association on a survey that will go to snowmobile clubs around the state to determine the future direction of club, municipal and capital equipment […]
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Comments from Jim Dill of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty were included in a Friday Channel 5 story about a Friday Orono forum about bedbugs. Dill and other experts — including those form the hospitality and healthcare sectors — provided information about dealing with the pests.
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UMaine Professor Emeritus Katherine Musgrave was inducted into the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame during a Saturday ceremony in Augusta. The Bangor Daily News covered the event, which also included the induction of Sen. Susan Collins. Musgrave, who continues to teach nutrition courses, has been a UMaine faculty member for more than 40 years. UMaine […]
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The website of television network NESN has a story about a casting call for UMaine students who want to compete on a TV quiz show that would feature academic- and intelligence-based challenges. The show “Schooled” would pit UMaine students against students from eight other New England schools, including Boston College, Boston University, Connecticut, UMass, Amherst, […]
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Channel 7 (WVII) on Thursday aired a report on how the University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center is helping Maine businesses with innovative manufacturing projects, including the recent design for a composite safety toe cap for an Auburn company that manufactures boot for firefighters. UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center created the composite resin […]
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