Mount Desert Islander spoke with Allison Gardner, an assistant professor of arthropod vector biology at the University of Maine, about a study she’s leading that found ticks are more abundant in parts of Acadia National Park that burned in the October 1947 fire. “We’re trying to establish associations between where we see high densities of […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported Marcella Sorg, state forensic anthropologist and a research professor with the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, identified bones found last month at a hospital construction site as non-human. The bones were found at a construction site for Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor […]
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The Advertiser Democrat quoted Griffin Dill, an integrated pest management professional and director of the Tick Lab with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, in the report “Ticked off: Tracking tick encounters and diseases.” Fifteen species of ticks have been identified in Maine, though not all are permanent residents — some, like the Gulf Coast tick, […]
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The Bangor Daily News article “These 12 skills are essential for any backyard farmer” mentioned Maine AgrAbility, a nonprofit program funded by a USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant and run by University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the National AgrAbility Project. The program works to make farming more accessible to people with […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) covered the University of Maine men’s basketball team’s participation in a National Root Beer Float Day fundraiser at the Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Bangor to support the Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center’s Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. Marriott International is CNM’s longest-standing corporate partner, according to WVII. […]
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Fiddlehead Focus and The County advanced a livestock clinic in Presque Isle hosted by the Central Aroostook Soil and Water Conservation District, University of Maine Cooperative Extension and National Resource Conservation Service. The clinic, designed for large-scale producers or small-farm hobbyists, will be held 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 23 in the Olde MacDonald’s […]
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The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release about Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie’s new website, Plant Love Stories. McDonough MacKenzie and seven other David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellows at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute — Sara Kuebbing, Molly Bletz, Joan Dudney, Bonnie M. McGill, Mallika A. Nocco, Talia Young and Rebecca K. Tonietto — […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, Maine Public, Mainebiz and the Republican Journal reported the University of Maine is a partner in a boat hull building project led by the Portland, Maine location of Honolulu, Hawaii-based company Navatek and funded by an $8 million U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research contract. The goal of the project is to […]
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VillageSoup reported Liam Riordan, a professor of history at the University of Maine, will give a talk about Maine’s bicentennial at 6 p.m. Aug. 10 in the Oval Room of the General Henry Knox Museum in Thomaston. A reception will follow. The talk, titled “Brainstorming the Bicentennial: Past and Present Perspectives on Maine at 200,” […]
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The Republican Journal reported three Maine high schools will participate in a yearlong, tuition-free pre-calculus course as part of the University of Maine’s Early College Academ-e high school pilot program. Students at Searsport District High School, Dirigo High School in Dixfield and Massabesic High School in Waterboro will be able to take the course, which […]
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