The Mercury News reported University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy was provided expert testimony at a March 6 House committee hearing on lack of diversity in the technology industry. Ferrini-Mundy provided ways to make sure there are enough diverse qualified workers in tech, including colleges supporting STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) readiness by helping […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Kate Garland, a horticultural professional with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for the article “Easy ways to ditch plastic in your garden.” Plastic takes hundreds of years to degrade, and only 9 percent of the 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic ever created has been recycled, the BDN reported. […]
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Raleigh News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer cited a report from Maine Sea Grant at the University of Maine in articles about sea smoke in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Columns of smoke were reported rising from the Back Sound as a mass of cold air from the north brought cold rain, sleet and snow […]
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The Bangor Daily News reviewed the University of Maine School of Performing Arts’ production of the musical “Into the Woods.” With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, the musical premiered on Broadway in 1987. The story “upends the fairy tales’ promise that there always will be a happily-ever-after finale,” the […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported 19 students from Hirosaki University in Japan who are at the University of Maine as part of a three-week program visited Brewer Community School to shadow seventh graders. The students from Japan, who are mostly education majors, are staying with host families and taking classes at UMaine to improve their English […]
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The Bangor Daily News quoted Caitlin Howell, an assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at the University of Maine, in the article “Your doctor’s office may soon be less germy because of a Maine paper mill.” As the traditional paper business of Sappi North America continues to shrink, the company is expanding its production […]
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Food in Canada magazine reported on wild blueberry research led by Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, a professor of clinical nutrition at the University of Maine, and Panagiotis Tsakiroglou, a Ph.D student at UMaine. Wild blueberries are rich in compounds including anthocyanins and phenolic acids, which have beneficial effects on chronic diseases. The research team found that when […]
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Judith Rosenbaum, an assistant professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show’s topic was the rise of shaming as a social phenomenon and how it often results in people being condemned, using police departments’ public sharing of the information of […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported two University of Maine graduate students, Brittany Goetting and Darcy Stevens, have been selected as 2019 Visiting History Scholars by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Goetting and Stevens will help the society prepare for the bicentennial of Maine’s statehood by researching and writing articles for the 2020 issue of the […]
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Morning Ag Clips reported registration is open for the Maine Grass Farmers Network (MGFN) Annual Conference 8:30 a.m.–3 p.m. March 23 at Kennebec County Community College in Hinckley. University of Maine Cooperative Extension partners with the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and other producers to host the conference. Livestock producers are invited to learn […]
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