The Portland Press Herald interviewed Hepeng Li, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maine, for a story on whether AI data centers are influencing electricity costs in Maine. While the state has yet to see an impact, Li believes Maine’s geography and cool climate could attract these centers one day. […]
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Reasons to be Cheerful published a story in collaboration with the Local Catch Network, which is based in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, that highlighted a UMaine graduate student who is studying the impact of Sea-to-School community programs. The story explores these types of programs, which integrate fresh seafood from Maine’s coast […]
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Maine Public featured Kristy Ouellette, University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor of 4-H youth development specialist, in a segment of its show “Maine Calling” that explored the history of agricultural fairs in Maine, events and activities different fairs are offering and what makes the state’s fairs special.
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WGME (CBS 13 in Portland) reported on a new app from Jon Ippolito, professor of new media at the University of Maine, which calculates the environmental cost of using AI. The Bangor Daily News and Daily Bulldog shared the release from UMaine.
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The Sun Journal highlighted collaborative research from the University of Maine Pelagic Fisheries Lab and Maine Department of Marine Resources in which researchers are monitoring the Gulf of Maine’s great white sharks with cylindrical fish acoustic receivers. Since 2020, receivers have recorded radio tagged great whites in Eastport, Harpswell, Ogunquit, Kennebunk, Higgins Beach, Phippsburg, Hermit […]
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The Harpswell Anchor featured Dana Morse, University of Maine Cooperative Extension program manager and aquaculture lead, in a story about the future of aquaculture in Maine, particularly the opportunity it presents in Harpswell. Morse, a part of the UMaine-run Maine Sea Grant, also co-owns Iron Island Oysters, part of the New Meadows River Shellfish Co-op […]
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Spectrum News interviewed Jim Dill, University of Maine Cooperative Extension associate program administrator in pest management, on how Maine’s clean, running water is contributing to a longer black fly season. “Once the Clean Water Act came into play, the rivers and streams in the state of Maine and other areas got cleaner and cleaner and […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Stefano Tijerina, senior lecturer in management at the University of Maine, following an increase in tariffs on certain imports from Canada, Maine’s biggest trade partner. “The items covered under the United States Mexico Canada Agreement, all those items remain untouched,” Tijerina said.
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Brian Jansen, assistant professor of communication and English at the University of Maine, wrote an op-ed published in The Conversation titled, “Hulk Hogan and the unraveling of worker solidarity.” Jansen wrote, “The reasons for professional wrestling’s dangers are largely tied up in the industry’s working conditions. And part of Hogan’s legacy may be his complicity […]
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The Maine Monitor interviewed University of Maine Ph.D. candidate Kyle Oliveira about the presence of great white sharks in the Gulf of Maine. Oliveira said their presence is an indicator of a healthy ecosystem and pointed toward the abundance of striped bass, which is prey for the sharks. News Center Maine shared the report from […]
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