Morning Ag Clips ran a University of Maine release about Cooperative Extension’s “Cooking for Crowds – Food Safety Training for Volunteer Cooks” at 1 p.m. Jan 24 at the UMaine Extension office in Bangor.
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Phys.org, an internet news portal that carries science developments, ran a University of Maine media release about glacial deposits on Mercury. James Fastook, a UMaine professor of computer science and a Climate Change Institute researcher, studied the accumulation and flow of ice on Mercury, and how glacial deposits on the smallest planet in the solar […]
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Public News Service reported that Penobscot Nation member Carol Dana and University of Maine English professor Margo Lukens have created a bilingual book to preserve the Penobscot language that will be published in 2019. “They Remember Me Still” includes 13 tales about Penobscot cultural hero Gluskape that Newell Lyon told to Frank Speck, who wrote […]
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FOX 22 interviewed John Daigle about his study that found education, confiscation of illegally transported firewood, warnings and fines are needed to alert campers about the dangers of invasive forest pests and keep them from transporting firewood across state lines. The University of Maine professor of forest recreation management said the tactics are needed because […]
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Rachel Snell ’06 ’16G, was featured in the Bill Green’s Maine segment “Here’s your darn figgy pudding.” In her home kitchen, the Honors College lecturer made figgy pudding (also called plum pudding or Christmas pudding), that dates back to the 16th century in England and was the crown jewel of Christmas dinner. The dense, sweet […]
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University of Maine economist Travis Blackmer talked with the Portland Press Herald about composting companies looking for new customers outside of Maine in order to continue growing. Three quarters of food waste in Maine goes to landfills or incinerators, according to the story, and there’s a push to shift that waste to compost farms and […]
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The Bangor Daily News chose three University of Maine-related accomplishments for its most inspiring stories of 2018. One was that after first-year football player Darius Minor collapsed and died of a heart condition during a supervised July workout, the Black Bears notched a 10–4 record and advanced to a Football Championship Subdivision national semifinal for […]
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Jacquelyn Gill recently talked with Down East Magazine about her favorite place — Gorham Mountain in Acadia National Park. The University of Maine paleoecologist first experienced the park as an eighth-grader on a field trip. When she was a student at the College of the Atlantic, the park was a classroom, laboratory, gorgeous recreation area […]
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Beyond Pesticides published a University of Maine media release about a study that found adding blackberry leaf litter in stormwater catch basins creates an “ecological trap” that entices mosquito females to lay eggs in sites unsuitable for larvae survival. This new “attract-and-kill’ mosquito control tool shows potential for preventing the breeding of mosquitoes that may […]
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Multiple media outlets, including the Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News, WABI (channel 5) and WVII (channel 7), reported that University of Maine System Chancellor James Page will retire at the end of the academic year. Page, who started the job in March 2012, is the first Maine native and university system alumnus to be […]
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