A 2013 study by Sandra Butler, a University of Maine social work professor, was cited in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “LePage administration tries to show it’s doing some good with welfare funds. It isn’t working.” Butler’s study found that more than a third of families surveyed who lost assistance after the state implemented a […]
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Seacoast Online reported University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine State Beekeepers Association have opened registration for a five-week Winter Beginner Bee School. The classes will be be held from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays, Feb. 22 through March 22 at Anderson Learning Center in Springvale, according to the article. Instructor Larry Peiffer, master […]
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Griffin Dill, an integrated pest management specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for the article, “‘Bone-chilling’ weather unlikely to kill off ticks before spring, researchers say.” Experts agree that it’s unlikely sub-zero temperatures and blizzards will cause any significant decline in Maine’s tick population, according to the […]
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Research by Alice Kelley, a geoarchaeologist at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a Sierra magazine article about archaeologists and Native Americans working together to identify culturally important sites. Along the coast of Maine, there are at least 2,000 prehistoric shell middens, according to Kelley. These middens are exposed and mainly unprotected, the article […]
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Tori Jackson, an associate professor of agriculture and natural resources with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News preview of the annual Maine Agricultural Trades Show. The event runs Jan. 9–11 at the Augusta Civic Center and will feature displays of equipment, lectures, training sessions and discussions, as well […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported Maine Medical Center Research Institute in Scarborough is partnering with the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute to study how climate change affects deer ticks and Lyme disease. Susan Elias, a disease ecologist at the research institute and a UMaine Ph.D. candidate, said persuasive research connects climate change with the […]
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Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for the article, “Repeat of ice storm of ’98 unlikely, not impossible.” The BDN reported that the ice storm that devastated Maine 20 years ago was caused by an unusual mix […]
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The Sun Journal published an opinion piece by Charles Scontras, a historian and research associate at the University of Maine’s Bureau of Labor Education, titled “Maine women have long fought for equal rights, and the fight continues still.”
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The Associated Press cited a University of Maine Climate Change Institute analysis in a report looking at what is causing the Arctic blast that has moved south to affect central and eastern United States. Super cold air is normally locked up in the Arctic in the polar vortex, which is a gigantic circular weather pattern […]
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Gordon Donaldson, professor emeritus of education at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News article, “Making more good teachers is hard, but here are ideas for how to try.” The quality of school leadership can have a significant influence over teachers’ job satisfaction, according to the article. Administrators have control over […]
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