The Republican Journal reported the University of Maine Hutchinson Center and the Midcoast Leadership Academy have announced completion of the academy’s seventh program year and the graduation of 18 current and prospective community leaders. The nine-month community immersion program studies issues, challenges and opportunities affecting the midcoast region; building a strong network of leaders throughout […]
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University of Maine research professor Joshua Stoll was interviewed for a Portland Press Herald story about North American lobster being traded along indirect and sometimes shadowy routes through Hong Kong and Vietnam to China. Stoll told the paper that the implications could be significant for the state’s lobster industry. He and Swedish researcher Beatrice Crona, […]
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Mary Ellin Logue, an associate professor of early childhood education at the University of Maine, was cited in a Morning Sentinel/Kennebec Journal article about a proposed $1.8 million budget cut that would have would have eliminated 83 slots statewide in the Early Head Start program. Instead, lawmakers agreed to fund the program at $3.12 million, […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that Darren Ranco, a Penobscot and chairman of the University of Maine Native American Programs, spoke at the Penobscot River Sovereignty Rally on Sunday. The U.S. Court of Appeals recently ruled 2–1 in favor of the state of Maine that the river surrounding the tribe’s reservation islands, including Indian Island, […]
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Clay Kirby, an insect specialist with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, told the Bangor Daily News that some garden pests, including flea beetles, are ”waiting for you to plant your seeds and put those seedlings out.” To minimize damage without using pesticides, Kirby said it’s necessary to “bring in a number of tactics to have […]
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Andrei Alyokhin, director of the School of Biology and Ecology, spoke with the Aroostook Republican about his research results involving Colorado potato cannibalism. He found that in a laboratory, Colorado potato beetles facing starvation and crowding ate beetle eggs and young beetles and injured beetles and other adults. Alyokhin said while it’s a laboratory study […]
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In an article promoting volunteerism, the Portland Press Herald wrote about a New England Phenology program through University of Maine Cooperative Extension called Signs of the Seasons. About 150 volunteers statewide observe and record seasonal change. There are 19 indicator species on the “watch” list, including the American toad, peepers and rockweed, according to the […]
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In Tom Atwell’s Maine Gardner column titled “Let it be a wild, wild world” in the Portland Press Herald, readers seeking to improve their soil are invited to contact University of Maine Cooperative Extension for a soil testing kit.
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The Boothbay Register advanced a talk titled “Plankton, Right Whales and Change in Gulf of Maine Ecosystem” by University of Maine professor of oceanography Jeffrey Runge at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 14 in Brooke Hall at the Darling Marine Center. The talk is free and open to the public; registration is requested.
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Abby Bennett, a University of Maine senior recently elected secretary of the College Republican National Committee, was mentioned in The Republican Journal story about young leaders changing the public face of the Waldo County Republicans. “The Republican Party can be the party of young people — the party and its ideals are the most representative […]
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