UMaine in the News

Penobscot Bay Pilot previews Hutchinson Center photography exhibits

The Penobscot Bay Pilot previewed two photography exhibits to be on display in Belfast at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center’s H. Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery Dec. 7–March 28. “Kosti Comes Home: An Exhibit of Maritime Images by Maine’s Iconic Photographer Kosti Ruohomaa” will focus on Maine coastal and maritime works, according to […]

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Waller quoted in BDN article on sea squirts

The Bangor Daily News quoted Rhian Waller, an associate professor at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, in an article about sea squirts. Sea squirts, or tunicates, are small, tube-like creatures that attach to rocks or other structures and often live in bunched colonies, according to the article. They are growing in number in […]

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Morning Ag Clips advances farm communication workshop

Morning Ag Clips published a University of Maine Cooperative Extension news release advancing sessions of a farm communications workshop beginning 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Dec. 5 at Kennebec Valley Community College in Fairfield. The workshop, led by UMaine Extension human development specialist Leslie Forstadt, and family and community mediation director Karen Groat, is intended for farmers, […]

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Mayewski, Kurbatov collaborate on ice core study covered by Phys.org

Paul Mayewski, professor and director of the Climate Change Institute (CCI) at the University of Maine, is a co-author on a study that was the focus of a University of Nottingham news release published by Phys.org. Mayewski collaborated with a team of researchers to study an ice core in the Swiss-Italian Alps that yielded evidence […]

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Maine Edge reviews SPA production of ‘The Curious Savage’

The Maine Edge reviewed the University of Maine School of Performing Arts’ production of John Patrick’s classic “The Curious Savage.” Directed by Ten Bucks Theatre Company founder and UMaine theatre instructor Julie Arnold Lisnet, the production is staged in Hauck Auditorium and will run through Nov. 18. The show tells the story of Ethel Savage, […]

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BDN article about horse rescue organization cites UMaine survey

The Bangor Daily News cited a 2012 University of Maine survey of 82 Maine horse owners in the article “These Mainers rescue neglected horses from the brink of death.” Windham-based horse rescue organization Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals (MSSPA) usually takes in horses seized by law enforcement in cases of abuse and […]

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Morning Ag Clips previews UMaine Extension agronomy workshop

Morning Ag Clips published a University of Maine Cooperative Extension news release previewing a soil and agronomy workshop to take place 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Dec. 5 at the University of Maine Presque Isle Campus Center. The workshop is designed for farmers, industry representatives, students and faculty, the release states. UMaine Extension assistant professors Sukhwinder Bali […]

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