Morning Ag Clips and The Penobscot Times announced registration is open for the annual 4-H@UMaine weekend event for youth in grades 6–10, scheduled for 3 p.m. May 31 through 4:30 p.m. June 1. Registration is requested online by May 3. The event will feature interactive workshops with topics including marine biology, space exploration, the science of […]
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WABI (Channel 5) covered a celebration of Earth Day at the University of Maine. Groups on campus hosted SpringFest on April 22 to educate their peers about the importance of green living and sustainability on a college campus, WABI reported. “Campuses are one of the biggest carbon emitters. They’re huge institutions with lots of people […]
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Articles by Forbes, MTV and The Indian Express featured research on spoilers by Judith Rosenbaum, an assistant professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine. Along with Benjamin Johnson of the University of Florida, Rosenbaum published a 2015 study that found spoilers had small negative impacts on enjoyment of a narrative, appreciation of the […]
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Outside magazine quoted David Yarborough, wild blueberry specialist with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, in the article “How Blueberries Became a Superfood.” Blueberry yield in Maine “has gone up astronomically as far as the production of fruit, both for wild and cultivated. We’re producing more blueberries than we’re eating, but we just have to get […]
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VillageSoup advanced a talk by Alice Kelley, an instructor in the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Science and research associate professor in the Climate Change Institute. Kelley will discuss Maine’s shell middens at noon April 30 at Merryspring Nature Center in Camden. The talk will focus on the record the middens archive […]
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The Republican Journal reported the University of Maine Hutchinson Center will host an information session about educational leadership programs from 4–5 p.m. April 24. The session will cover the M.Ed. in educational leadership and the news Ed.S. in district leadership, both of which deliver online coursework as well as Saturday and evening meetings at the […]
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The Bangor Daily News included information from Jim Dill, pest management specialist at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, in the article, “How you can protect your garden from slugs.” Slugs can do a lot of damage to a garden by chewing on leaves and stems, as well as leaving behind trails of slime, which […]
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Maine Public spoke with Grant Tremblay, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and native Maine resident, who was back in the state to speak at the University of Maine. Tremblay presented “Light from the Void: NASA’s Once and Future Great Observatories” as part of the Emera Astronomy Center’s Science Lecture Series, and “Galaxy-scale […]
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Lancaster Farming published an article on Maine AgrAbility, a non-profit program that supports farmers, fishermen and forest workers with disabilities and helps them continue working. Funded by a USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant and run by University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the National AgrAbility Project, Maine AgrAbility provides services at no […]
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WABI (Channel 5) advanced the Clothesline Project at the University of Maine, an installation on the Mall to recognize Sexual Assault Awareness Month, as part of a roundup of related events across the state. The project, a display of clothing created by survivors, is a collaboration with Bangor-based organizations Partners for Peace and Rape Response […]
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