Food & Wine magazine spoke with Cathy Billings, associate director of communications and development at the University of Maine Lobster Institute, for the article, “Maine’s lobster industry thriving, despite slow start.” Conflicting news reports stated that the Maine lobster catch is either prospering or in decline, according to the article. Billings said one of the […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, spoke with the Penobscot Bay Press about climate change, including the Paris Agreement and the Antarctic Peninsula. Mayewski discussed the effects of politics on U.S. climate change action and offered insight into the complex science behind determining humans’ effect on the world’s […]
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David Yarborough, a wild blueberry specialist at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was interviewed by The New Food Economy for an article about Maine’s blueberry surplus. This year, with a near-record harvest expected across the state’s 18,000 acres of barrens, the United States government is planning to buy $10 million worth of blueberries to […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported on a recent talk by a University of Maine doctoral student at the Challenger Learning Center in Bangor. Elisabeth Kilroy, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow who is pursuing a doctorate in biomedical science, taught students about how muscles work and discussed muscular dystrophy, a rare genetic disease that affects […]
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Jerome Nadelhaft, an emeritus professor of history at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “The long, dark history of violence against women.”
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Mount Desert Islander reported George Jacobson, professor emeritus of the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and the Climate Change Institute, will speak at Garland Farm in Bar Harbor at 4 p.m. July 27. Jacobson served as the state climatologist for several years, according to the article. His presentation will be based on […]
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Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) interviewed Neil Comins, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Maine, about the potential challenges space settlers could encounter. Comins discussed his latest book, “The Traveler’s Guide to Space: For One-Way Settlers and Round-Trip Tourists.” “I do believe that space is the next frontier, and we […]
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Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, wrote a guest column for the Hollywood Reporter titled, “It’s O.J. Simpson’s world; we’re just living in it.” CNN cited the column in the article, “O.J. Simpson hearing: A blast from media past.”
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CBS News cited statistics from the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine in a report about a blue lobster that was caught off the coast of New Hampshire near where the state borders Maine. According to the Lobster Institute, only about one in every 2 million lobsters is blue. The institute’s executive director, Bob […]
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The Associated Press reported on a new tool developed by University of Maine scientists that allows blueberry growers to learn how many bees they can expect to see around their fields. “BeeMapper” will be unveiled July 19 at Blueberry Hill Farm in Jonesboro as part of the UMaine Cooperative Extension’s annual Wild Blueberry Summer Field […]
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