VillageSoup advanced a field trip to shell middens on the Medomak River led by Alice Kelley, an instructor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and a research associate professor with the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. Kelley will guide field trip participants and educate them on current knowledge of the […]
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WABI (Channel 5), News Center Maine and The Ellsworth American interviewed Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias and the director of research at the Downeast Institute, for reports on the construction for a $6.6 million expansion to the institute. “What we do here at DEI is to try to […]
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University of Maine Enrollment Management has launched an interactive 3-D campus map on the platform Concept3D, according to the company’s press release published on PR Newswire. The detailed 3-D map is an engaging and mobile-friendly way to explore the campus and its many features, which are labeled when the user selects a certain filter category, […]
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WVII (Channel 7) covered the first harvest of the season for the Black Bear Food Guild, the University of Maine’s community-supported agriculture (CSA) share program. A university-owned farm in Old Town is run by three students from UMaine’s sustainable agriculture program. Local residents can buy a share of the season’s crops, and attended June 26 […]
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David Handley, a vegetable and small fruit specialist and cooperating professor of horticulture with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show’s topic was Maine winemaking, including different vineyards in the state and the industry’s contribution to Maine’s culture and economy.
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The Maine Edge carried a University of Maine news release about a partnership between faculty in the School of Forest Resources at UMaine, Black Bear Brewing Company and Marsh Island Brewing to create a pale ale using spruce tips. The brew, named “Green Growth,” is made with tips from Norway spruce trees from UMaine’s Dwight […]
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The Associated Press reported a team of researchers at the University of Maine received a grant for more than $430,000 from the National Institutes of Health to study immune system responses to the influenza virus. The research will be used to develop new treatments for the flu, following the worst flu season in Maine in […]
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The Bangor Daily News cited a 2015 University of Maine Climate Change Institute report on Maine’s climate future in the op-ed “Reducing Maine’s carbon emissions now will pay off later.” The report found flood zones in Maine have expanded, the habitat for lobsters is moving north, and ticks and Lyme disease have an increasing presence […]
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The Sun Journal reports the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Oxford Hills Homeschool Robotics 4-H Team returned from an international competition in California. Four team members ages 13 to 15 competed in the FIRST LEGO League California International Open in Carlsbad, California. Their project addressed solutions for water pipes freezing and bursting in cold weather, […]
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WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) reported a Maine woman developed an allergy to red meat after being bitten by a lone star tick, quoting Griffin Dill, a pest management specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. The tick is not native to Maine, but has been found in the state in a few isolated […]
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