The Bangor Daily News has a story about Stu Haskell, former UMaine athletic director, who will receive Friday night the Founders Medal from the Hockey East conference. Haskell served as the Hockey East commissioner for five years. Since his retirement in 1997, Haskell has written The Maine Book, which covers Maine athletics from 1881 to […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal reports UMaine’s 4-H Camp and Learning Center in Bryant Pond has received an anonymous $69,000 donation that will be used to build nine new bunkhouses over the next few years. Oxford County Cooperative Extension Educator Susan Jennings said most of the bunkhouses will be built by students in the building trade […]
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UMaine and the University of Maine Foundation are working with the Bangor and Orono land trusts to conserve 2,738 acres of land in the Bangor-Alton area, according to the Bangor Daily News. This newest addition to the Caribou-Penjajawoc Lands Project protects and connects land parcels ranging from 43 to 1,100 acres, while also raising $1.2 […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried a column by Kate Yerxa, nutrition educator at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, about community supported agricultural farm share opportunities. She explains that winter is the time to begin researching farms that sell shares to the community and how to determine which produce options make sense for families.
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WLBZ reported on the Tuesday’s Nano Expo, which took place on the UMaine campus. The event, which drew more than 200 students and teachers from three area middle schools, is part of UMaine’s “Making Stuff” collaboration with Boston public television station WGBH, the Challenger Learning Center and the Maine Discovery Museum, and introduces students to […]
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Robert Bayer, the executive director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, commented in an MPBN radio report about a line of high-end lobster products being offered as a partnership between chefs and Casco Bay-based lobstermen. Bayer said the partnership is unique because it is a cooperative producing value-added products.
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The media met Tuesday with Donald Julius, the third candidate for the UMaine president position to visit the campus. Julius, who is currently an administrator in the University of Alaska system, told the Bangor Daily News UMaine should create its own revenue streams rather than relying on the state’s General Fund. WABI also covered interviewed […]
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The Montgomery News of Fort Washington, Pa., has a story about Michael Burgess, a UMaine alumnus who was hired as a research botanist at the Morris Arboretum. Burgess received his doctorate from UMaine, where he completed dissertation research on the genus Amelanchier, known as the serviceberry. Burgess will be responsible for updating and redesigning the […]
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A Waterville Morning Sentinel op-ed column about the possible repeal of Maine’s Kid-Safe Products Act mentioned a study by UMaine economist Mary Davis. According to the column, written by a Colby College student, Davis calculated the legislation could save the state an average of $1,350 per child every year in reduced health care and economic […]
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Comments from retired UMaine mechanical engineering professor Dick Hill are included in an extensive Lewiston Sun Journal story about issues related to home heating oil use and Maine’s economy. Hill points out that “social adjustments” are part of the solution, noting that Americans have more residential space per person than people who live in other […]
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