David Handley, vegetable and small fruit specialist with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, told Maine Public that this year’s rainy, cool weather has delayed the strawberry season in most of the state by 10 to 14 days. In the southern portion, Handley said the season was likely to begin last weekend. Moving north, “you’re going […]
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WVII (channel 7) and News Center Maine reported that University of Maine rising sophomore James Olivier earned the right to compete in the 800m for Team USA at the 2019 Pan American U20 Championships by winning the race at the USA Track & Field U20 Outdoor Championships. “Hopefully I make it through the prelim, right […]
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WABI (channel 5) covered the ribbon-cutting at the Lafayette and Rawcliffe 4-H Science and Engineering Learning Center, established by University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine 4-H Foundation. “We’re fully connected via technology… if we need the ability to bring youth here in this area and connect them with other folks around the state […]
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The Courier-Gazette advanced the free 4-H Summer of Science Program for youth in grades 3–7 from July 12 to Aug. 16 at the Rockland Public Library. Participants will learn about catapults and the science of ocean water and will confront real-world challenges to navigate their pirate ship. Sign up at the library or call 207.594.0310.
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The San Antonio Express-News reported that University of Maine men’s assistant basketball coach Edniesha Curry is one of two women who will be a guest coach on Blake Ahearn’s staff next week in the 2019 Salt Lake City Summer League. Curry is the lone female assistant coach in Division I men’s basketball. The Spurs made […]
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The County, the hub for the Aroostook Republican, Houlton Pioneer Times and The Star-Herald, featured longtime potato expert Jim Dwyer, who is retiring this summer from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and becoming a professor — the Robert Vinton Akeley Chair of Agricultural Science and Agribusiness — at the University of Maine in Presque […]
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Mainebiz reported the University of Maine System is striving to make good on its pledge to double nursing enrollment over the next five years to address a statewide shortage of nurses. Chancellor James Page said the system launched the Maine University Nursing Workforce Plan last fall in response to a projection of 2,700 nursing vacancies […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that in addition to athletic scholarships that cover tuition, room and board, and textbooks, the University of Maine will begin providing men’s and women’s basketball players money for other costs related to attending school. In 2015, the NCAA established a policy so student-athletes receiving a full scholarship also were eligible […]
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University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer told the Portland Press Herald and Morning Sentinel/Kennebec Journal that having Democratic control of the House, Senate and Blaine House was likely the biggest driver the “year of the ban.” This session, lawmakers outlawed so-called conversion therapy to change sexual orientation, as well as schools from using Native […]
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Kathleen McNerney and Griffin Dill talked with the Portland Press Herald about repercussions of Maine’s cool, wet spring. McNerney, home horticulture coordinator for University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Falmouth, said she doesn’t anticipate this will be a good season for tomatoes. Worried gardeners have been calling and emailing her and sending samples of fungi, […]
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