The Piscataquis Observer noted that University of Maine junior Steffi Victoria has been awarded a spring internship in Sen. Susan Collins’ Washington, D.C. office. Victoria first met Collins during the UMaine Cohen Institute Summer Program’s Washington, D.C., trip last year, and she completed an internship in Collins’ Bangor office last fall. Victoria is majoring in […]
Read more
Jason Lilley, assistant Extension professor and Maine sustainable agriculture and maple industry educator, was interviewed by Maine Public about the early maple tree tapping season caused by the warm winter weather. “All of these changing weather patterns and weather extremes are having impacts on the tree health. And we as a research community are trying […]
Read more
WMTW-TV (Channel 8 in Portland) and the Bangor Daily News reported on University of Maine research about tropical glaciers in Uganda. “One of the big reasons why the tropics are important is because what happens in the tropics doesn’t stay in the tropics. It influences the rest of the globe. A lot of our atmospheric […]
Read more
An op-ed for the Portland Press Herald highlighted the University of Maine Lobster Institute’s U.S.-Canada Lobster Town Meeting, which it has held for the past 18 years, and the discussions there about the future of the industry’s approach to the North Atlantic right whale. CentralMaine.com shared the PPH commentary.
Read more
The Public News Service reported that researchers at the University of Maine are studying the feeding habits of Arctic charr to help predict how other fish species could adapt to a warming climate. Michael Kinnison, director of the Maine Center for Genetics and the Environment at the University of Maine, said the research will inform […]
Read more
News Center Maine and the Penobscot Bay Pilot shared that the University of Maine Native American Programs, in partnership with the Penobscot Nation, has launched a website to accompany bilingual English and Penobscot signage on campus. The new website includes audio recordings of the Penobscot language translations by language master Gabe Paul, a Penobscot pronunciation […]
Read more
The Penobscot Bay Pilot and Republican Journal reported that the Waldo Reads Together committee announced this year’s featured title for its One Book, One Community program is Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty, assistant professor of English at the University of Maine.
Read more
In an article about the shortage of nurses in rural areas of Maine, particularly Washington County, the Maine Monitor quoted state Sen. Marianne Moore of Calais as saying she is “encouraged” by the healthcare classes being offered at the University of Maine at Machias.
Read more
The Bangor Daily News and Piscataquis Observer boosted the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s online discussion on federal agricultural-related employment laws on Feb. 21 at 3 p.m. The session will focus on H-2A program requirements and includes recent Final Rule changes that went into effect in November. The discussion will also cover wage and child […]
Read more
Science Magazine interviewed Deborah Bouchard, associate Extension professor and aquatic animal health specialist at the University of Maine, about the advantages and disadvantages of using a sand filter in salmon aquaculture systems. “When operating properly, it’s great. … If sand gets out of your biofilter, then you are in big, big trouble with your pumps, […]
Read more