Jim Dill, a pest management specialist with University of Maine Cooperative, spoke with WABI (Channel 5) for a report about the possibility of bringing ticks or other insects into your home on a Christmas tree. “Getting a Christmas tree at a Christmas tree farm or a roadside operation should not have any concerns to an […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and the Bangor Daily News reported on the latest visit by certified therapy dogs to the University of Maine’s Fogler Library. The library offers therapy dog visits to give students a mental break during stressful study sessions as the semester winds down, according to the WABI report. “It’s just calming and it […]
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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 an article on how to keep rodents from coming into your home this winter. “Some are looking for a warm, protected area to over winter and others are looking for a food source,” he […]
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Elizabeth Allan, a professor of higher education at the University of Maine and founder of the National Hazing Prevention Consortium, spoke with U.S. News & World Report for an article about whether the benefits of Greek life on college campuses are worth the risks. A string of deaths at fraternities around the country has sparked […]
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Tori Jackson, an associate professor of agriculture and natural resources with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with WABI (Channel 5) at a Maine Farmland Trust conference. For the last three years, the conference has been bringing farmers, service providers, and current and future landowners together to make connections and discuss issues related to […]
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Catharine Biddle, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine, wrote a Maine Focus piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “4 ways we can all support students in poverty.” Biddle suggests people should assume barriers and access are the issue, assume teachers are doing the best they can, support the expansion […]
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Rick Wahle, a research professor at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, was interviewed by Canadian Broadcasting’s Radio-Canada for a report about American lobster migrating from south to north, as a result of warming waters. A segment of the footage was shot at the DMC waterfront in Walpole where Wahle and graduate students conduct […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on the University of Maine Page Farm and Home Museum’s annual holiday wreath-making workshop. The workshops, so popular they are never advertised, fill up fast, according to museum director Patricia Henner. For Henner, who has been helping run the workshops for more than two decades, making wreaths is part of […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, WLBZ (Channel 2), WVII (Channel 7) and 92.9 FM The Ticket reported Richard Barron, currently on medical leave as the University of Maine women’s basketball coach, has been assigned a new role within the UMaine Athletic Department. For the next seven months, Barron will be a special assistant […]
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The Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer was included in an online Discover Magazine blog post titled, “Move over record-setting warmth: A brutal blast of winter misery straight out of the Arctic appears to be on its way.” An Arctic blast is forecast for the Midwest and eastern United States around Dec. 10, according to the […]
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