The Sun Journal reported on the University of Maine’s role in a Maine State Library project to digitize French language newspapers published in Maine. The article noted that the Franco-American Collection of the University of Maine also has extensive holdings of the newspaper Le Messager, which was published between 1880 and 1968. Jacob Albert, a […]
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In a segment about the opioid crisis in Maine, WMTW-TV (Channel 8 in Portland) highlighted the University of Maine’s Professional Opioid Workforce Response Program, which has been training students to take on jobs in substance use treatment and prevention since 2019. Elizabeth Armstrong, assistant professor of social work and the program’s director, told WMTW that […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Piscataquis Observer noted that the University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H staff in Penobscot County will hold a youth public speaking workshop on Saturday, Jan. 21. The in-person workshop is scheduled from 2–4 p.m. at the Penobscot County Extension office, 307 Maine Ave., Bangor.
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In a roundup of the year’s climate stories, Maine Public cited an interview with Ivan Fernandez, a professor of soil science at the University of Maine, where he said that snow in Maine has decreased by 7% and will decrease by another 20%–40% by 2050. The article also noted that, according to the University of […]
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The Mount Desert Islander promoted an event about how Mount Desert Island’s tourism industry is adapting to climate change, featuring Lydia Horne, who received her Ph.D. at the University of Maine studying the topic.
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Hannah Carter, dean of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke to Maine Public about the federal budget bill including $8 million to the University of Maine to study “forever chemicals” and their impact in the state. “Because farmers want to farm their lands. They don’t want it to sit there. And we want them […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that University of Maine president Joan Ferrini-Mundy has announced the rebranding of the Office of Innovation and Economic Development as the Office of Strategic Partnerships, Innovation, Resources and Engagement, or SPIRE. SPIRE will focus on fulfilling the university’s service mission through a strong emphasis on strategic partnerships, and corporate and […]
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The Bangor Daily News, News Center Maine, MaineBiz, CentralMaine.com, Lincoln County News, Morning Ag Clips, WMAZ-TV (Channel 13 in Macon, Georgia) Spud Smart, Potato Pro, Potato News Today and Potato Grower reported that researchers at the University of Maine are currently exploring whether lobster shells can be used to combat soil pathogens like early dying […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Beth Calder, University of Maine Cooperative Extension food safety specialist, for an article about the dangers of certain outdated food preservation techniques, like water glassing eggs, canning better and animal feed fermentation. “With more research we are seeing a lot of these [older] methods are not safe practices. In both […]
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In an article about the polar vortex, the New York Times used a data visualization from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer.
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