Lois Berg Stack of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty comments in a Maine Today Media story about the notion that poinsettias are poisonous to ingest. While she doesn’t advise eating them, Stack agrees with other experts who call reports of the plant’s toxicity “a myth.”
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A Science Now online news story describes a new measurement technique developed by scientists using seismometers to monitor icequakes, seismic activity caused by calving and other physical changes in glaciers. Gordon Hamilton of the UMaine Climate Change Institute comments in the story, which describes the data collection method and its potential impact on climate and […]
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Habib Dagher, the director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was quoted extensively in an article in the Thibodaux Daily Comet of Lafourche Parish, La., about the potential for offshore wind in the Gulf of Mexico. Dagher said there is a heightened level of interest on the part of the Obama administration in moving […]
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John Rebar, executive director of UMaine Cooperative Extension, has a letter to the editor in Friday’s Bangor Daily News. The letter thanks U.S. Sen. Susan Collins for her support of the University of Maine Potato Integrated Pest Management program. The program provided in 2008 and 2009 early warnings and strategies that averted an estimated $43 […]
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Information from UMaine Cooperative Extension about the popularity of the cranberry around the holidays was included in a story in a report in a Connecticut newspaper. The Bristol Press mentioned the health benefits of the cranberry, its history in North America, and ways cranberries can be cultivated in a home garden. More information can be […]
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The findings of a national hazing study conducted by UMaine researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden were mentioned in a Reuters story about incidents that took place last at a high school in Blackfoot, Idaho, involving college football players from Boise State, Idaho State, and Carroll College in Montana. The study found 47 percent of […]
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Friday’s Bangor Daily News reports that UMaine alum Ahsley Hebert, a 26-year-old Madawaska native who’s now a University of Pennsylvania dental student, will be one of 30 contestants on the next season of ABC television’s “The Bachelor.” The report says she was captain of the dance team when she was a UMaine student. The season […]
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UMaine Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Research Associate Ann Acheson and Barbara Murphy from the Cooperative Extension faculty will be part of a panel discussion on WERU radio, 10-11 a.m. Friday Dec. 17. WERU is at 89.9FM with live streaming online. The subject will be local agriculture as a means for addressing hunger in Knox […]
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An editorial published in the Brunswick-based Times Record newspaper cited UMaine’s involvement in the Maine Advanced Technology and Engineering Center as an example of job creation in Maine. The center, a public-private collaborative, will be based at the Brunswick Naval Air Station when the Navy closes the base next May. The editorial claims more than […]
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A Maine Today Media story details “Making Maine Work: The Role of Maine’s Public University System,” a report released on Wednesday by the Maine Development Foundation and Maine State Chamber of Commerce. The report outlines the ways in which Maine’s public universities can better serve the Maine business sector and it notes examples — including […]
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