The Portland Press Herald reported on the University of Maine’s new energy proposal that calls for biomass and solar. UMaine would get much of its heat and electricity from an on-campus Renewable Energy Center fueled by locally harvested wood and a huge solar array, according to a plan being negotiated by the University of Maine […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the Kleinschmidt Windstorm Challenge and the Maine Wind Blade Challenge, both held at the University of Maine on May 18. More than 300 middle and high school students from around the state brought their projects, which they had worked on extensively both in and outside of class, to the competitions, […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Kate Garland, a horticulturist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for an article about how to grow crops in hanging baskets and window boxes. Garland cited watering as the biggest challenge when it comes to hanging crops. With water escaping out of the bottom of the container, it […]
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The Portland Press Herald quoted Shawn Laatsch, director for the University of Maine’s Emera Astronomy Center, in an article on dark sky designations and the state’s potential for astrotourism. Several locations in Maine are considering applying for official designation by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) as dark sky sanctuaries, parks or reserves — the Katahdin […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported a 14-member search committee has been named to help select the next University of Maine director of athletics. Robert Dana, the chairman of the committee and the school’s vice president for student life and dean of students, called it a “very robust and energetic” committee and said “there isn’t a […]
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The Portland Press Herald mentioned the University of Maine’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King Memorial Plaza in an article about planned memorials in Portland to honor King. The article discussed the recommendation by a task force to rename Portland’s Bayside Trail and Franklin Street arterial after him, and noted that UMaine […]
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The Associated Press and Bangor Daily News reported the University of Maine will offer a volunteer training workshop for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s Maine Bumble Bee Atlas. The atlas is a five-year survey looking to document different species of bumble bees around the state, as well as their ranges and abundance, […]
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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 article, “Maine companies grow in Asia despite Trump trade uncertainty.” Vekasi, who will be a featured panelists during the Maine International Trade Center’s Trade Day 2018, is cautiously optimistic about future trade […]
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Science Trends published the article, “The evolutionary context of insecticide resistance,” by Andrei Alyokhin, a professor of applied entomology at the University of Maine. Thoughts from the article also are described in “Adaptation to toxic hosts as a factor in the evolution of insecticide resistance,” which was recently published in the journal Current Opinion in […]
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Maine Public reported the University of Maine System is anticipating a record number of nursing applicants for the 2018–2019 school year, even as the state continues to struggle with nursing shortages. Dan Demeritt, executive director of public affairs for the University of Maine System, said that as of May 1, the UMaine School of Nursing […]
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