News Center Maine reported that University of Maine students helped Madison middle school youth learn to fly drones and use innovation to solve real-world problems. A Maine Department of Education EMBRACE (Enabling Maine students to Benefit from Regional and Coordinated approaches to Education) grant funds the SAD 59 STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) […]
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Having children and investing time, love and money is no guarantee to avoiding loneliness in old age, wrote Amy Blackstone in her opinion piece titled “Grow Old Like ‘The Golden Girls’’ in The New York Times. “We are finally beginning to understand that just as it takes a village to raise a child, it takes […]
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The Bangor Daily News wrote about the Maine 4-H Foundation raising $4 million to buy the Magic Lantern theater and pub in Bridgton to create the Magic Lantern Innovation Lab and Learning Center. University of Maine Cooperative Extension instructors will lead learning programs for youth ages 5–18 in the western Maine Lakes Region, according to […]
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Dillard University President Walter Kimbrough’s column in The Times-Picayune about ending hazing referenced a 2008 University of Maine study by Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden that found 47 percent of students entering college had already experienced hazing. Kimbrough advocated creating a broad coalition in middle schools to provide intensive hazing education, “just like we are […]
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Jim Dill told News Center Maine that Maine’s colder, longer winter has, in effect, concentrated the black fly season. The Cooperative Extension associate program administrator says all 40 or so species are out in force in heavily wooded areas and by the water, where they breed.
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Pen Bay Pilot and Republican Journal announced that registration is open for more than 300 fall undergraduate and graduate courses — both live and via distance education — at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. Need-based scholarships are available for new and continuing students. If interested, contact Nancy Bergerson, 338.8049, nancy.bergerson@maine.edu.
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Morning Ag Clips and Livermore Falls Advertiser ran a University of Maine Cooperative Extension media release about its three-day Food and Drug Administration-recognized food safety certification workshop beginning June 26 in Bangor. More information is on the program website and June 19 is the online registration deadline.
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WABI (Channel 5) and News Center Maine reported on the first Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center (TIDC) Conference, held June 6–7 at the University of Maine. The goal of the event is to share groundbreaking, next-generation research that will positively impact the durability of transportation infrastructure, increase the lifespan of transportation assets, and save money for […]
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WBUR (NPR Boston) spoke with Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maine, for the report, “New England is losing its native plants. Researchers say it’s time to stop and smell the wildflowers.” A recent study led by McDonough MacKenzie found that about one quarter of native New England wildflower species have […]
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Sally Farrell, a 4-H youth development professional with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show’s topic was how young people are getting involved with farming in Maine, including programs and educational efforts aimed at encouraging youth to participate in agriculture.
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