The Free Press reported Maine Coast Heritage Trust and Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District will sponsor an informational session for producers and growers on the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety rule from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 6, at the Knox-Lincoln Cooperative Extension Office in Waldoboro. The event is free and […]
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A statement from the University of Maine was included in the Bangor Daily News article on the impact of proposed federal budget cuts. Maine’s public university system and its researchers are keeping a close eye on the federal budget after many federal agencies that support university research and projects were targeted for significant cuts under […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and WLBZ/WCSH (Channels 2 and 6) reported on the largest Accepted Student Day held at the University of Maine. A record 3,300 prospective students and their families were on campus March 25 for information sessions, tours and presentations. “It’s a challenge for us; it’s a great kind of problem for us to […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a feature article on Project Generations, a new program at the University of Maine that connects college students with older residents in Greater Bangor for their mutual benefit. The program is informally modeled after a program that was founded at Ithaca College and now has a chapter at Cornell University […]
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David Yarborough, a wild blueberry specialist with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was quoted in a Maine Public report about how blueberry growers in the state are struggling with plummeting prices. Yarborough said the berries can be roughly categorize into two groups: cultivated, or “highbush,” and wild, or “lowbush.” Wild blueberries, those found only in […]
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The University of Maine’s Flagship Match tuition scholarship program was mentioned in the Santa Fe New Mexican editorial, “Use affordability as a selling point.” “An interesting experiment is taking place in Maine,” the article states, pointing to the UMaine program that guarantees academically qualified, first-year students from several states will pay the same tuition and […]
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Samuel Borer, a junior at the University of Maine studying physics and math, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald article about how students in the University of Maine System are likely to see an increase in tuition and fees this fall, the first hike in six years. The trustees will vote on the increase, […]
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The Maine Community Foundation published an article on Tristan Corriveau, an entrepreneur from Harpswell who founded The One Gallon Soap Co. in Scarborough. His fledgling company, which recycles used bars of soap into liquid hand soap, began a year ago in his basement, according to the article. Corriveau said he has found plenty of support […]
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The Associated Press reported Xudong Zheng, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maine, has been awarded more than a half million dollars from the National Science Foundation to study the human voice. The project will use computer models to look at sound production. Zheng says better understanding of vocal function can […]
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Pacific Standard reported on a recent research expedition by Aaron Putnam, assistant professor with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Putnam traveled to Mongolia to develop a chronology of glacial retreat, taking samples from granite boulders that were once suspended in ice in the Altai Mountains, according to the article. Back at UMaine, Putnam […]
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