News Center Maine reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension is accepting tick submissions from people across the state to identify what type of tick they are and to see if they carry diseases. Since April 1, UMaine Extension has received about 1,500 ticks and tested around 900. They found about 45 percent of the […]
Read more
The Portland Press Herald published a feature article on Susan Smith, assistant director of the intermedia master of fine arts program at the University of Maine. Since February, Smith and her husband have traveled from their home in Dover-Foxcroft to the U.S. border with Mexico, and visited refugee detention centers in Florida and Texas, where […]
Read more
VillageSoup reported Rick Wahle, professor and director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, will host a presentation July 31 on the future of lobstering and the Gulf of Maine at the Camden Yacht Club. In his 5 p.m. talk, Wahle will address the influences of the ocean’s physical and biotic environment on […]
Read more
WABI (Channel 5) reported a new center at the University of Maine is focusing on 3D printing of metal objects. The Center for Additive Manufacturing of Metals (CAMM) is based in the Advanced Manufacturing Center. UMaine hopes CAMM will help the state stay up to speed with the rest of the Northeast in additive metal […]
Read more
Hello Homestead, an offshoot of the Bangor Daily News, interviewed Kate Garland, a horticultural professional with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for an article about how to plant a fall vegetable garden. Fall gardens can supply fresh produce late in the season, and cool temperatures in late summer and fall can add sweetness to some […]
Read more
Science magazine quoted Susan Gardner, a professor of higher education and director of the Rising Tide Center and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maine, in the article “For academics, what matters more: journal prestige or readership?” The article focused on how to choose which academic journals to submit publications to, and […]
Read more
Pamela Hargest, a horticultural professional with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was a recent guest on Maine Public‘s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show addressed listener questions about summer gardening, including tips on planting, weeding, pruning and picking. The program was posted online along with UMaine Extension resources — a plant identification submission form and […]
Read more
The Penobscot Times advanced the August star show lineup at the University of Maine’s Emera Astronomy Center. Shows will include “Black Holes” at 2 p.m. Aug. 2; “Dream to Fly” at 7 p.m. Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30; “Coldplay: Sky Full of Stars” at 9 p.m. Aug. 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30; […]
Read more
The Lincoln County News spoke with David Handley, a vegetable and small fruit specialist and cooperating professor of horticulture with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for a report on this year’s strawberry season. Strawberry farmers in Lincoln County are reporting a late and short season that is already coming to a close, the article states. […]
Read more
Lawrence Mayer, a biogeochemist in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, was quoted in an Eos article about a new study of what keeps oxygen in the air. According to the article, microbes take oxygen from the air when they help dead plants decay, to the extent that if all organic matter from […]
Read more