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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Information from a University of Maine Cooperative Extension publication was cited in the Bangor Daily News article, “No warnings on Maine fiddleheads, despite health concerns over Canadian ferns.” The New Brunswick Department of Health recently issued a warning that fiddleheads growing in areas hit by the provinces’ record floods this spring may be contaminated and […]
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WFAA in Dallas, Texas cited a 2008 University of Maine study in the report, “Hazing is a crime. Why aren’t high schools doing more to stop it?” The national study, which was conducted by researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden, found an estimated 1.5 million high school students are hazed each year. Forty percent of […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported on the upcoming Abbe Museum Indian Art Market in Bar Harbor. The inaugural event will include as many as 75 artists from 40 tribal nations across North America in downtown Bar Harbor for a weekend celebration of Native culture, according to the article. The market comes at a time when […]
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Vermont’s Stowe Today mentioned the University of Maine’s soil testing service in a column about raised-bed gardening. If using more of a potting mix instead of field soil, the author, a University of Vermont Cooperative Extension master gardener, recommended getting a saturated media test from UMaine. She suggested requesting the basic high tunnel test, and […]
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Information from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension was included in an NJ.com article about the different types on ticks that can be found in New Jersey. The article cited information from UMaine Extension about the woodchuck tick and the moose or winter tick. Woodchuck ticks can be found anywhere east of the Rocky Mountains, […]
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