The Bangor Daily News mentioned the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in the article, “This homestead resource may sound too good to be true, but it’s just a call or click away.” Cooperative Extensions are part of each state’s land grant university, which were designated in the mid-1800s to focus on science, engineering and agriculture […]
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Potato News Today and Fiddlehead Focus reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension will host the 34th annual Maine Potato Conference Jan. 23–24 at the Caribou Inn and Convention Center. The Central Aroostook Young Farmers Trade Show also will take place at the center, with informational booths. Events are planned from 8 a.m. to 4 […]
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Jonathan Rubin, director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, is profiled in the latest edition of TR News, the bimonthly magazine of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), one of seven major programs of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. At TRB, Rubin chairs the Environment and Energy […]
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Morning Ag Clips published a University of Maine Cooperative Extension news release announcing a half-day session for agriculture producers and service providers to discuss building agricultural leadership capacity in Maine. The meeting will be held noon–3 p.m. Jan. 17 at the Augusta Civic Center during the 2019 Maine Agricultural Trades Show. The purpose of the […]
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Kathryn Yerxa, of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for the article, “In Maine, cooking classes tackle the root causes of hunger.” Maine has developed a network of programs that provide nutrition education to low-income Mainers who are at risk of food insecurity, according to the article. There are […]
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Susan Elias and Griffin Dill were sources for a Portland Press Herald piece about the 29 percent decrease in Lyme disease cases this year in Maine. The state recorded 1,310 Lyme cases through Dec. 27, 2018, down from 1,852 (an all-time high) in 2017, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. “The […]
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James Breece, an associate professor of economics at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Associated Press article on Gov. Paul LePage. LePage leaves the state in better fiscal shape than he found it, but his wins were sometimes overshadowed by aggressive remarks, according to the article. The aging state’s economy has overall “greatly […]
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Cynthia Isenhour, a professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for an article about a Maine man who spent a year without shopping for anything other than basic necessities. Nearly a decade ago, Isenhour wrote her dissertation on Swedish consumers who tried to stop shopping. […]
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Sarah Nelson, director of the Ecology and Environmental Sciences program and associate research professor in watershed biogeochemistry at the University of Maine, spoke with Eos for an article about winter weather whiplash, or unusual and unexpected changes in weather, like a false spring in the dead of winter. Whiplash events can affect ecosystems that are […]
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Kristin Vekasi, an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “Taking away foreign aid won’t stop immigration.” A key goal of foreign aid is to improve economic conditions in the countries that receive that aid, according to Vekasi. “It defies logic […]
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