Morning Ag Clips published a University of Maine news release announcing University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator Kathy Savoie and community education assistant Kate McCarty were honored at the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences 2017 annual session in Omaha, Nebraska. Savoie and McCarty both received the first-place regional and first-place national Master […]
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WABI (Channel 5) visited the University of Maine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research (CCAR) in Franklin for a report about aquaculture. “In the last say two to five years, the number of sea farmers in Maine has really exploded,” said Susan Brawley, a UMaine professor in the School of Marine Sciences. Her work at CCAR […]
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KJZZ 91.5 interviewed Elizabeth Allan, a professor of higher education at the University of Maine, about what can be done to combat hazing in colleges. Allan also is the executive director of StopHazing.org, a resource for hazing research and prevention. “We’ve also found that hazing is occurring in performing arts groups, marching bands for example, […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported the University of Maine publicly identified four finalists for the position of vice president for academic affairs and head of campus at the University of Maine at Machias (UMM). Candidates will visit the Orono and Machias campuses during the next few weeks, according to the article. The candidates are Richard […]
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Amy Fried, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in The American Prospect article, “How Maine’s Medicaid expansion campaign got to yes.” Mainers voted 59 to 41 percent to expand Medicaid, making Maine the first state to approve Medicaid expansion at the ballot box. Both the turnout and the margin of […]
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The Associated Press, Fiddlehead Focus, WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle), WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported a new potato variety developed by the Maine Potato Board and University of Maine was once again available at the Maine Harvest Festival in Bangor. The Caribou Russet was made available to consumers for the first […]
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Maine Public spoke with University of Maine adjunct associate professor of psychology Jonathan Borkum about his latest research that theorizes migraine attacks may be the body’s natural way of protecting and repairing itself from toxins in the brain. Borkum said migraine symptoms may have a restorative purpose, to relieve the brain from what he calls […]
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Ngo Vinh Long, a professor of history at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Politico article, “Why Vietnam loves Trump.” According to the Pew Research Center, Vietnam is among seven out of 37 surveyed countries where a majority of the population says they like Donald Trump. A reported 58 percent of Vietnamese told […]
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Mark Wells, a marine biology professor at the University of Maine, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for the article, “Maine plans swifter protocols for shellfish monitoring.” A toxic bloom of Pseudo-nitzschia, a common phytoplankton, closed hundreds of miles of Maine coastline to shellfish harvesting this fall and caused a recall of 58,500 pounds of […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in an Associated Press article about the state’s wild blueberry harvest. The crop fell sharply this summer to land below 100 million pounds for the first time in four years, according to the article. Preliminary industry figures show the crop coming in at about 65 million pounds, said Nancy […]
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