Mainebiz and The Penobscot Times reported the federal government will award $1.25 million in grants to support forest-industry development projects at the University of Maine and in East Millinocket. UMaine will receive $1 million to build a demonstration-scale nanocellulose plant, and East Millinocket will get $250,000 to support the acquisition of a former paper mill site, […]
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Journal Tribune reported on a high-altitude balloon launch by students at Scarborough Middle School. The project, which gave students the chance to learn about space and the atmosphere, was carried out in collaboration with the University of Maine’s High Altitude Ballooning (HAB) program. With funding from the Maine Space Grant Consortium, the program has worked […]
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The Bangor Daily News cited the 2017 Maine Aquaculture Economic Impact Report published by the University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute in an article about proposed fish farms. Ohad Maiman of Kingfish Zeeland in the Netherlands told the BDN he would like to build a land-based yellowtail fish farm somewhere in Maine, but the relentless […]
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The Maine Edge and Island Institute’s The Working Waterfront published a University of Maine news release about a new five-year study that will focus on Gulf of Maine temperature trends and variability during the past 11,000 years. The study, led by Katherine Allen, a UMaine assistant professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences […]
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A five-week beginner bee school offered by University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine State Beekeepers Association was mentioned in a West End News column about native Maine plants, birds and bees. The school is offered annually in southern Maine at the beginning of the year. The course is a great opportunity for new […]
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The Maine Edge, Sun Journal and WVII (Channel 7) reported the Wheelmobile, the promotional vehicle for the game show “Wheel of Fortune,” will visit the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine in search of contestants. Open auditions will take place in the Hutchins Concert Hall at 5 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and […]
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Bangor Daily News and The Ellsworth American reported on construction of Hancock County’s first significant mountain bike trail. The Capstone Trail is part of an eventual 3.6-mile trail that will climb Great Pond Mountain in the Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust’s 4,500-acre Wildlands in Orland, said Landon Fake, the trust’s executive director. The Penobscot Region […]
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Amy Blackstone, a professor in the Department of Sociology and the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Maine leads on reproductive freedom.” Blackstone is a member of the of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together […]
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WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) reported on Maine’s strawberry growing forecast. Late June is when the strawberry harvest typically begins, according to the report. Bill Bamford, co-owner of Maxwell’s Farm in Cape Elizabeth, spoke with WGME about his farm’s primary crop. He and his crew manage more than 10 acres of strawberries, according to the […]
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National Geographic, The Weather Channel, Fox News, Hindustan Times and Science Alert reported on the installation of the world’s highest weather station in Mount Everest’s “death zone.” An international team of scientists, including six from the University of Maine, and mountain climbers joined National Geographic to install the two highest weather stations in the world, […]
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