The University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer was featured in News Center Maine and Daily Express reports on heat records worldwide. Nearly the entire planet was labeled red this week, meaning most of the world experienced hotter-than-average temperatures for late July. The effects of the heatwave include wildfires in Greece, forest fires in […]
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The Machias Valley News Observer reported the University of Maine at Machias is a partner in a project to protect downtown Machias from increasing flooding events. The other partners are the Town of Machias and the Washington County Council of Governments. Members of the public learned about the Machias Waterfront Resilience & Renewal Study at […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Erik Blomberg, an assistant professor of wildlife, fisheries and conservation biology at the University of Maine, for an article about a recent study of ruffed grouse. Blomberg was a collaborator on the study, along with biologists from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) and other UMaine researchers. […]
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Jordan LaBouff, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on why it is difficult for people to admit when they are wrong, and how that relates to conflict and divisiveness in modern society.
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Morning Ag Clips and the Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel published a University of Maine announcement about an online Maine hay directory offered by the UMaine Cooperative Extension. Consumers can use the resource “to find quality feed for their animals,” said Rick Kersbergen, an Extension professor of sustainable dairy and forage systems, and sellers can list […]
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The Bangor Daily News, News Center Maine, WABI (Channel 5), WVII (Channel 7) and Q1065.fm reported on the completion of a new mural in Bangor painted by artist and University of Maine undergraduate student Liam Reading. Spanning two walls of the Together Place Peer Run Recovery Center at 150 Union St., the mural depicts famous […]
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Maine Public interviewed Lauren Jacobs, a lecturer in kinesiology and physical education at the the University of Maine, for a report on how to increase the time children spend outdoors. Children today are spending far less time outdoors than their parents and grandparents did, reducing their sense of connection to nature, which for a largely […]
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MedicalXpress carried a University of Maine news release about a recent study that found an association between short- and long-term depressive symptoms and cardiovascular disease. Depressive symptoms can predict the occurrence of cardiovascular events. Short-term or baseline depressive symptoms increase the risk of cardiovascular events for up to 15 years, and chronic depressive symptoms increase […]
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The Huffington Post quoted Amy Fried, a professor and chair of the political science department at the University of Maine, in an article about promotion and marketing of Brett Kavanaugh, the nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. The article focuses on behind-the-scenes marketing efforts to promote Kavanaugh as impartial and moderate, appealing to those on […]
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National Geographic mentioned the work of Karen Pelletreau, a researcher and the manager of Workshops, Programs, and Training at the University of Maine’s Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, in an article about photosynthetic sea slugs. Living off the East Coast of the United States, the sea slug defies traditional rules that animals do […]
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