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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WABI (Channel 5) reported the University of Maine is starting the search for a new head football coach following current head coach Joe Harasymiak’s announcement that he will take a position at the University of Minnesota. Harasymiak was head coach at UMaine for three seasons, and assistant coach for four years, and will be remembered […]
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News Center Maine reported members of the Portland High School 4-H club recently volunteered at the Ronald McDonald House in Portland. The students made dinner and dessert for families coping with their children being hospitalized over the holidays, the article states. The PHS 4-H club is a leadership and service-learning group that meets at the […]
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The Bangor Daily News mentioned the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Maine Harvest for Hunger program and quoted Kate Garland, a horticultural professional with UMaine Extension, in an article about gleaning. For the last seven years, volunteer Charlie Boothby has been visiting the Brewer Farmers Market after hours to collect food that otherwise would be […]
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The Maine Edge interviewed Nimesha Ranasinghe, an assistant professor in the School of Computing and Information Science at the University of Maine, for an article about his Virtual Cocktail invention. “I’m not creating technology, I’m creating experiences,” said Ranasinghe, whose research focuses on multisensory interactive media, augmented reality and human-computer interaction. The Virtual Cocktail, or […]
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