Down East Magazine’s Al Diamon focuses his column “Maine Humor” on the discovery made by UMaine researchers that the needles of some conifer trees contain high levels of an acid that is a key ingredient of anti-flu drugs.
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Fox Sports Maine 97.1, the flagship station for the Black Bear Sports Network, will broadcast a Maine hockey pre-season special Saturday night Sept. 25 from 5-5:30 p.m. Fox Sports Maine’s Jon Shields will host the program, a commercial-free conversation with Black Bear head coach Tim Whitehead. They will talk about the upcoming season, the Maine […]
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Paula Burnett, the RSVP program director in UMaine’s Center on Aging, appeared Wednesday Morning on Portland’s WCSH television to discuss National Senior Corps Week, which is celebrating the accomplishments of volunteers age 55 and over through the Foster Grandparent Program, Senior Companion Program, and RSVP.
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A Thursday Bangor Daily News story describes Saturday’s national drug disposal effort. More than 100 drop-off sites will be established around Maine for people to turn in unwanted drugs for safe disposal. The story notes successful efforts by UMaine’s Center on Aging to establish similar programs, including one that has allowed people to return unwanted […]
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UMaine Cooperative Extension tree fruit specialist Renae Moran is the lead resource in a York Weekly story about Maine’s 2010 apple crop. She says that yield appears to be down, attributable to a May 11 frost that saw temperatures dip into the low 20s. Southern Maine orchards were hit harder than those in northern Maine.
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UMaine Climate Change Institute glaciologist Gordon Hamilton is featured in a Rolling Stone Magazine story about the accelerated melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Writer Ben Wallace-Wells spent time with Hamilton and his colleagues during an expedition to Greenland. The story also makes reference to the work of Hamilton’s UMaine graduate student Leigh […]
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In an interview with Channel 7 (WVII) on Sept. 22, kinesiologist and physical education researcher Nellie Cyr of the UMaine College of Education and Human Development discussed healthy dietary and lifestyle measures parents and schools can encourage for children as the nation wrestles with an increase in childhood obesity.
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The Bangor Daily News “College Fair Preview” insert features a profile of UMaine senior nursing student Casey Levasseur and senior finance major Brian Landry (page 6). The supplement, part of Wednesday’s newspaper, provides a number of articles related to colleges and universities around Maine. Levasseur, of Millinocket and Landry, of Yorktown, Va., are part of […]
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A comment from retired UMaine Cooperative Extension veterinarian Michael Opitz is included in a Blue Ridge Now news Web site story looking at issues related to salmonella at egg production facilities owned by Austin “Jack” DeCoster. Blue Ridge Now covers western North Carolina.
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The UMaine Museum of Art will host “Bloom,” an artful celebration to benefit the museum’s exhibition and education programs, on Saturday Sept. 25 from 5:30-10 p.m. The event, scheduled for the museum galleries at 40 Harlow St. in Bangor, will feature a complimentary wine bar, hors d’oeuvres by Montes, live entertainment, music by the A […]
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