The Bangor Daily News interviewed Aram Calhoun, a professor of wetland ecology at the University of Maine, and Jessica Jansujwicz, an assistant research professor at UMaine, for an article about vernal pools. Vernal pools are small, temporary wetlands that appear in the spring when snow melt and precipitation fill shallow depressions in forest landscapes, the […]
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Griffin Dill, an integrated pest management professional with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke to WVII (Channel 7) about the beginning of tick season. As temperatures rise, snow begins to melt, and ticks have begun to emerge for the season. Dill said UMaine Extension recently has received a half dozen calls from people who found […]
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The Bangor Daily News quoted Mazie Hough, an associate professor of history and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Maine, in an article telling the story of Caroline Colvin. Colvin was a UMaine history professor from 1902 to 1932 and the namesake for Colvin Hall, home to UMaine’s Honors College, as well […]
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Susan Gardner, director of the University of Maine’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News article “What it means to be a queer Mainer in 2019.” The focus of the article was on the word “queer” and how the meaning of the label has changed over time. “It really […]
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WVII (Channel 7) covered a celebration of Holi, the festival of spring celebrated in southern Asian cultures, hosted by the University of Maine’s South Asian Association of Maine (SAAM) on March 24. Traditionally, colored powders are thrown to celebrate the end of winter and the beginning of spring, according to the report. “We’re just here […]
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The County cited University of Maine Cooperative Extension in a report on the closures of Aroostook County’s two biomass plants. The closures of the two ReEnergy plants, one in Ashland and one in Fort Fairfield, will have effects on those in the forestry and agriculture sectors, especially farmers who have depended on wood ash as […]
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The Republican Journal previewed a free, four-part QuickBooks Basics for Farms workshop hosted by SCORE and University of Maine Cooperative Extension. The workshops will help participants better understand how to activate and use the key features in the QuickBooks Desktop Pro version to process customer invoices and payments, record sales and sales taxes; generate reports; […]
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Maine Startups Insider and Mainebiz reported KinoTek, a startup company founded at the University of Maine last year, has won the inaugural “Greenlight Maine” Collegiate Challenge. Run by UMaine kinesiology and psychology student Justin Hafner, KinoTek creates virtual reality technology that visualizes the body’s muscles and the specific movements they generate, the articles state. KinoTek surpassed […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Kate Garland, a horticultural professional with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for an article about what to plant before the last frost of winter. Some cold-hardy plants, including carrots, corn, parsnips, spinach, turnips, peas, onions, lettuce and seed potatoes, can survive a light or moderate frost if they have […]
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The Associated Press quoted Dana Humphrey, dean of the University of Maine College of Engineering, in an article about this year’s “muddier and bumpier than most” mud season in New England. An especially rainy and snowy winter contributed to more severe potholes, bumps in the road, and melting snow flowing into rivers and creating mud, […]
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