Apple Harvest Down Due To Frost
The website FreshPlaza.com has a report quoting UMaine Cooperative Extension Fruit Specialist Renae Moran about the apple harvest in Maine. Moran said the harvest is down because of an early spring frost.
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Bridge in a Backpack Installed
Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, commented in a Thursday WABI television story about the installation of a new bridge in Hermon. The structure uses “bridge in a backpack” technology developed under Dagher’s direction at the UMaine center. UMaine spinoff company Advanced Infrastructure Technologies is working with a local construction […]
Read moreNanodiamond Find In Greenland Ice
UMaine research into the presence of nanodiamonds in Greenland was mentioned in a story in The Daily Nexus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. UMaine scientists Paul Mayewski and Andrei Kurbatov of the Climate Change Institute helped provide expertise related to the flow dynamics along the edge of the Greenland ice sheet and the […]
Read moreResearcher Says Fishermen Lack Safety Training
Research being done by Mary Davis, and adjunct faculty member in UMaine’s School of Economics, was cited in a Portland Press Herald story about the safety risks of fishing. Davis has found that about 40 percent of the boats in Maine’s inshore fishing fleet are out of compliance with safety regulations, and 16 percent of […]
Read moreHuffington Post Highlights Connection Between Whales And Carbon Sequestering
The Huffington Post has a blog entry about research done by UMaine’s Andrew Pershing into the idea that whales can effectively sequester carbon, therefore removing it from the atmosphere. Pershing estimates that restoring whale populations could remove up to 160,000 tons of carbon annually.
Read moreNew Online Weight Management Program Mentioned
An online weight management program recently started at UMaine was mentioned in a newspaper story. Faculty in the food science and human nutrition department began offering the program for the first time this fall
Read moreUMaine Fitness, Nutrition Experts Available to Discuss National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
Contacts listed in text ORONO – September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, and as the school lunch and other child nutrition programs are set to expire Sept. 30, nutrition and fitness advocates are encouraging Congress to act swiftly to pass child nutrition bill for the President to sign. University of Maine exercise physiologists and […]
Read moreBookstore Says Read a ‘Banned’ Book
Contact: Diane Genthner, 581-1744 ORONO — The University Bookstore at the University of Maine is joining with the American Library Association in its observance of “Banned Books Week” Sept. 25-Oct. 2 and encouraging public participation by reading a controversial book. Thousands of libraries and bookstores across the country plan to celebrate the freedom to read […]
Read moreExtension Funded for Continued Potato Blight, Pest Prevention Research
Contact: Jim Dill, (207) 581-3879; James Dwyer, (207) 764-3361 ORONO — University of Maine Cooperative Extension researchers have received renewed U.S. Department of Agriculture Funding of $432,000 for potato late blight and pest management research and education for 2010. The program is overseen by co-principal investigators Jim Dill, an Extension pest management specialist in Orono, […]
Read moreWelfare A Hot Issue In Maine Governor’s Race
Sandy Butler, a UMaine social work professor, is quoted in a Bangor Daily News story about the Maine gubernatorial candidates’ focus on the issue of welfare. Butler says a report, which claims Maine is the most welfare-dependent state in the nation, did not distinguish between federal aid and state aid.
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