The Associated Press published an article reminding Maine residents that the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab offers a tick testing service. Anyone who has been bitten by a tick can send it to the lab to be tested for Lyme disease, anaplasmosis and babesia. Tests cost $15 per tick for Maine residents, according […]
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Shawn Laatsch, director of the Emera Astronomy Center at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show’s topic was the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, which will take place on July 20.
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Mount Desert Islander featured Caitlin McDonough Mackenzie, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, in an article about the Second Century Stewardship initiative, a collaboration between the National Park Service and the Schoodic Institute. The initiative centers on a fellowship program that brings early-career scientists to Acadia to study the potential […]
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The Penobscot Times published a University of Maine news release previewing the 2019–20 season at the Collins Center for the Arts. The upcoming season will offer a range of shows including music, dance, magic shows, Broadway musicals and more, the release states. The season will kick off with a performance by Chubby Checker and The […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot advanced “Hanging by a Thread,” an exhibit of more than 50 works by Maine fiber artists to be hosted in the H. Allen and Sally Fernald Gallery at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast from Sept. 6 to Nov. 22. A free opening reception will be held 5:30–7 p.m. […]
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News Center Maine and Outdoor News Daily reported on a wild turkey population count led by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW). This past winter, researchers and students in the University of Maine’s Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology; local game wardens; and biologists trapped, banded and dispersed 216 wild male […]
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Market News Reporter published an article about a collaborative research project being led by Virginia Tech that will look at the potential of forest residues becoming an economically viable resource. “Residues” in the forest industry refer to secondary materials such as the branches and tops of trees that cannot be cut into boards or made […]
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Morning Ag Clips reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District (PCSWCD) will offer a tractor safety workshop 5:30–8:30 p.m. July 30 in Dover-Foxcroft. The workshop is offered to local farmers, residents and landowners who are at least 18 years old and wish to learn basic tractor safety […]
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10 daily, an Australian news site, quoted Robert Steneck, a professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, in the article, “Lobsters left to die in restaurant tanks spur animal cruelty complaints.” The RSPCA, a community-based charity providing animal care and protection services in Australia, is outraged after lobsters were left in the display […]
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Lakes Region Weekly reported the Maine 4-H Foundation is $2 million away from buying the Magic Lantern theater and pub in Bridgton, where it plans to create an innovation lab and learning center for local children. The foundation, which supports the University of Maine’s Cooperative Extension programs, has raised about half of the $4 million […]
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