Republican Journal reported the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast will offer the professional development program “Public Speaking for Business and More” on Nov. 7. Tom Dowd, a prize-winning speaker, award-winning and best-selling author, and trainer and coach, will facilitate. Nonprofit and business leaders, educators, municipal officials, members of the clergy and others interested […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on the Afari mobility device, which was invented by University of Maine professors Stephen Gilson and Elizabeth DePoy. Gilson and DePoy not only teach disability studies — but are both persons with disabilities. When Gilson convinced DePoy in 2008 that she should complete a triathlon, she ran into a major […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported on an upcoming University of Maine art exhibit in celebration of Maine’s bicentennial. “Framing Maine: Artists’ Perspectives on Place” opens Oct. 4 at Lord Hall Gallery with more than 50 pieces of art including paintings, drawings, photographs, quilts, rugs and baskets by nearly three dozen contemporary Maine artists. It is […]
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The Piscataquis Observer reported on a food fermentation program and brewery tour 5–8 p.m. Oct. 22 at Bissell Brothers Three Rivers in Milo. The event is sponsored by the Piscataquis County Extension Association, University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Brian Perkins, an assistant research professor in […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Kate Garland, a horticultural professional with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for an article about how to prepare a raised garden bed for winter. Throughout autumn, gardeners with raised beds should take several steps to ensure their garden beds are ready for next year’s seeds and seedling transplants, […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald article on Gov. Janet Mills’ pledge to world leaders at the United Nations Climate Action Summit that Maine will be carbon neutral by 2045. The article states that Maine has massive renewable power potential, especially in regard to offshore wind, a sector UMaine is […]
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Paul Mayewski, Distinguished Maine Professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “Climate change is already happening and it’s worse than predicted.” “The weather and climate is the greatest security issue we currently face,” […]
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Brian Beal, professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine Machias, told the Bangor Daily News that invasive Asian shore crabs are probably a “ticking time bomb.” Beal was interviewed after Acadia National Park officials said a molted shell of an Asian shore crab was found Sept. 19 along the shore near Schoodic Point. […]
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Maine Public talked with Ivan Fernandez after the first meeting of the Maine Climate Council on Thursday. Fernandez, a University of Maine soil and forest scientist, said work on climate change is resuming at the state level. “Some faces here that I haven’t seen in about eight years,” Fernandez said. “We can continue our work.” […]
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University of Maine paleoecologist Jacquelyn Gill talked about her experiences exploring a permafrost cave in Siberia, as well as her medical scare there, with Rob Caldwell on News Center Maine’s 207. Gill was in Siberia in September 2018 to film “Lost Beasts of the Ice Age” for the Science Channel. She and other leading scientists […]
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