The University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick ID Lab was mentioned in a Sun Journal article about May being Lyme Disease Awareness Month. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a reminder that everyone be “tick aware and tick alert,” especially as the days get warmer, the article states. The lab, located […]
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Maine 4-H Follow a Researcher® returns for a sixth season with University of Maine graduate student researchers. From 1–2 p.m. May 2, UMaine Earth and climate sciences master’s student Mariama Dryak will be available on Twitter to chat with students and teachers about her studies using satellites to track iceberg melt in Antarctica. Dryak will […]
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WABI (Channel 5) spoke with University of Maine professor Heather Hamlin and recent marine biology Ph.D. graduate Amalia Harrington about their research that found ocean acidification and warming may be an unhealthy combination for lobsters. The researchers found heart rates of lobsters who lived 60 days in water with predicted end-century ocean pH levels became […]
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Lily Calderwood, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension wild blueberry specialist and assistant professor of horticulture, was interviewed by The New York Times for the article, “From apples to popcorn, climate change is altering the foods America grows.” Higher temperatures and altered growing seasons are making new crops possible in places where they weren’t before, […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported University of Maine students are preparing for the annual Maine Day Meal Packout on May 1. In food-packing events, campus and community volunteers box meals that are donated to food banks and community organizations that provide food for people in need. The event will be held 9 a.m.–noon in the Memorial […]
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The Epoch Times cited statistics from the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine in a report on a blue lobster caught off the west coast of New Quay, Wales. It’s impossible to say exactly how rare blue lobsters are, according to the article; however, one in two million are the odds that have been […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the University of Maine’s 12th annual Healthy High 5k, 10k and 15k races and 1-mile fun run/walk. “We had a great turnout for the rain,” said race director Lauri Sidelko. “We had a torrential downpour, but people had great attitudes and a really good time.” Proceeds benefit the Student Wellness […]
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The Bond Buyer spoke with Jeffrey Hecker, executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Maine, for an article about the university’s Flagship Match program. The out-of-state tuition discount program began in 2016 with the goal of turning around declining revenue and enrollment, the article states. “It’s a win for the […]
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The Guardian quoted Amy Blackstone, a professor of sociology at the University of Maine, in the article “Joe Biden’s non-apology to Anita Hill casts long shadow over 2020 run.” Blackstone conducted a long-running study of views on sexual harassment that surveyed people in their early 20s at the time of the 1991 Clarence Thomas confirmation […]
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Neil Comins, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on BBC Radio’s “The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry” program. The episode’s topic was what life would be like if the Earth had two moons.
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