The Kennebec Journal spoke with Caragh Fitzgerald, an agricultural educator at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Kennebec County, for an article about the 40th anniversary of Longfellow’s Greenhouse in Manchester. The surge of younger gardeners has led the greenhouse staff to become more like growing coaches to their customers, advising them on how […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported a 10-month public dialogue series sponsored by the League of Women Voters-Downeast will continue April 26 with the conversation, “Fake news: Who can you trust?” The discussion will be held from 5:30–7 p.m. at Pat’s Pizza in Ellsworth. Scheduled guests include Josh Roiland, an assistant professor of journalism at the University […]
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Weather.com spoke with University of Maine researcher Rick Wahle and cited graduate research by Jesica Waller for the Maine report in its “United States of Climate Change Series.” In the Gulf of Maine, climate change is causing ocean temperatures to rise more quickly than nearly anywhere else on the planet, according to the article. This […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) spoke with four University of Maine bioengineering students at the UMaine Student Symposium in Bangor. The group was among the more than 1,200 UMaine students who were set to showcase their research and work at the Cross Insurance Center. More than 400 exhibits are on display for the general public throughout Monday, […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, was quoted in a CBS News report about a recent Columbia University study that found water is gushing across Antarctica. The researchers found significant drainage of meltwater flowing across the continent’s ice sheets during summer in Antarctica. Until now, these streams of […]
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Erik Blomberg, an assistant professor of wildlife population ecology at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Sun Journal article about how Maine’s bat population is fighting to survive. White-nose syndrome, a disease caused by a quick-spreading fungus, is believed to have killed 80 to 90 percent of the affected bat species in Maine, […]
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Maine Public, Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on a March for Science held at the University of Maine. Similar events took place in Portland, Machias and Sanford, which were among the 600 communities in the United States and abroad that held pro-science rallies in conjunction with the national March […]
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The opinion of Michael Socolow, a professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, was one of two included in the Boston Globe’s report “Ethical dilemma: Facebook Live.” The post asked whether Facebook should make it harder to broadcast disturbing scenes — including criminal acts — and included two views on the subject. […]
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The Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News and WLBZ (Channel 2) quoted Cassandra Carroll, an ecology and environmental studies major at the University of Maine, in reports about the University of Maine System announcing its change in investment policy. After three years of students pressing the University of Maine System to divest from fossil fuels, […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) spoke with several students in the University of Maine College of Engineering, as well as Dana Humphrey, dean of the college, for a report about Maine’s need for more engineers. Several students showed off their capstone projects, including a clean snowmobile, and spoke about their plans for after graduation. Humphrey said many […]
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