In her Act Out with Aislinn column in the Bangor Daily News, Aislinn Sarnacki highlighted mountain biking on Marsh Island Community Trails, including those in the 1,478-acre Dwight B. Demeritt Forest. “Mountain biking was one of Derek’s (her husband’s) favorite pastimes while attending UMaine, so he knows the trails around the university quite well,” she […]
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The University of Maine is included in a Mainebiz story about Kai Smith, an eco-entrepreneur at Maine Coasters & Bio-Boards. He’s prepping for a pre-commercial trial of beer coasters made from softwood pulp and spent grains left over from the brewing process. Smith developed the coaster prototypes in coordination with UMaine’s Process Development Center, a […]
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Centralmaine.com ran a University of Maine Cooperative Extension release that announced the latest installment of its “Growing Maine” series highlighting food producers and farm families. The short documentary, which features Monica’s Chocolates in Lubec, is online.
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The Livermore Falls Advertiser reported the Franklin County 4-H Beef Club planned to donate proceeds from a day of its food booth sales at the Farmington Fair to relief efforts in the aftermath of the Sept. 16 propane explosion at the LEAP (Life Enrichment Advancing People) building in Farmington. The explosion killed Capt. Michael Bell […]
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WABI (Channel 5) covered a Sept. 25 panel discussion at the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor. The UMMA’s fall exhibition — “Studio Visit” — is free and open to the public. “It’s really wonderful because we are able to open our doors so that all can come and enjoy seeing original works […]
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The Bangor Daily News covered its sold-out “Bangor Daily Brews: Climate change and Maine’s next 200 years” event featuring University of Maine Climate Change Institute researchers Paul Mayewski, Sean Birkel and Cynthia Isenhour. “I think for a long time the media was treating this [climate change] as a situation in which there were two sides,” […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported the University of Maine is competing for the title of “Most Outdoorsy” school in the Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education Campus Challenge. Students, faculty, alumni and community members can take part in the challenge that runs through Oct. 13. “The average person is spending eight hours or more in […]
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William Livingston, associate director for undergraduate education and associate professor of forest resources at the University of Maine, will talk about fall foliage and tourism on Maine Calling 1–2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25.
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NewsCenter Maine and WABI (Channel 5) covered UMaine UVote’s efforts to register students to vote on Sept. 24 — National Voter Registration Day. UMaine UVote is part of a national nonpartisan group leading the Campus Election Engagement Project, designed to increase the number of young people registered to vote. “In general, national election statistics, and […]
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The Boothbay Register cited the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center’s economic impact report for the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. The policy center found in 2018 the laboratory contributed $23.7 million to the state’s economy. The report quantified the ways the laboratory contributed to the economy — through supporting its employees, purchasing goods and services, […]
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