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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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; […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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Hello Homestead, whose parent company is the Bangor Daily News, and WABI (Channel 5) featured GPS Cows, a collaborative project involving the University of Maine, in which high school students build cow collars with built-in global positioning systems, then collect, analyze and present data about grazing ruminants. “Large-scale farming is increasingly digital,” said Colt Knight, […]
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WABI (Channel 5) interviewed Griffin Dill and Thomas Rounsville about testing done at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab, which is part of the Pest Management Unit within the Cooperative Extension Diagnostic and Research Laboratory. Maine residents can have ticks tested for pathogens for $15 per sample. “We can get a good idea […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed James McConnon and David Marcinkowski for its story about cheesemakers forming a Midcoast Cheese Trail, similar to the wine, beer and ice cream trails in Maine. McConnon, University of Maine Extension business and economics specialist and professor of economics, told the BDN that agritourism is a natural fit for the […]
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WGME showed footage of the University of Maine football team’s candlelight remembrance at Morse Field to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Darius Minor, a first-year football player who collapsed last July during a workout.
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