The Portland Press Herald published a column honoring Lois Stack, an ornamental horticulture specialist, who retired earlier this month after 30 years with University of Maine Cooperative Extension. In his “Maine Gardener” column over the weekend, Tom Atwell wrote, “I haven’t counted, but I think she is the source I have used most often since […]
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Ian Bricknell, a professor of aquaculture at the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, spoke with Quartz about the harmful impact sea lice have on farmed Atlantic salmon. Prices for salmon are at a historic high due to sea lice outbreaks in Scotland and Norway, according to the article. Sea lice, Bricknell told Quartz, […]
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The Associated Press, Bangor Daily News, WVII (Channel 7) and The Ellsworth American reported Director of Athletics Karlton Creech has signed a four-year contract to stay at the University of Maine, effective Feb. 10. Creech has directed the UMaine Department of Athletics since 2014. “Karlton’s outstanding leadership of UMaine Athletics has benefited the university, the […]
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Bob Bayer, executive director of the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute, and Cathy Billings, the institute’s associate director of communications and development, are creating a skin cream from lobster blood to treat dry skin, chapped lips, cold sores, minor cuts and burns, the Bangor Daily News reported. Bayer and Billings are partners in Lobster Unlimited, […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s Jan. 22 concert at the Collins Center for the Arts. Noreen Silver, instructor of cello and chamber music at the University of Maine, performed as a soloist during F.J. Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major. The program also included music by Bach and Handel. […]
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Richard Brzozowski, University of Maine Cooperative Extension food system program administrator, was mentioned in the Portland Press Herald article, “Locally raised Maine meat is not in short supply,” as part of the “Green Plate Special” column. Analysts with the Reinvestment Fund presented findings of a recent study geared toward optimizing the state’s red meat supply […]
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The latest art installation by Samantha Jones, an adjunct professor of art and Honors College preceptor at the University of Maine, is currently on display at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Seacoast Online reported. Jones recruited art students from Blue Hill Harbor School, a small alternative high school, to work with her on the […]
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The Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5), WVII (Channel 7), WLBZ (Channel 2), CompositesWorld and Mainebiz reported Advanced Infrastructure Technologies (AIT), a University of Maine spinoff company, has signed a distribution and marketing agreement for North America with Terre Armee Group/Reinforced Earth Company. The agreement will help grow adoption of UMaine’s patented composite arch bridge […]
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U.S. Sen. Angus King invited U.S. Secretary of Energy nominee Rick Perry to come to the University of Maine to learn about energy projects UMaine is working on with the federal government, the Portland Press Herald reported. King extended the invitation during Perry’s confirmation hearing before the Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “(The University […]
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The Free Press reported the Edward A. Myers Marine Conservation Fund recently donated $2,000 to the K–12 education program at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole. The donation is a portion of proceeds from Damariscotta’s annual Pemaquid Oyster Festival. Since the festival’s inception in 2001, it has raised over $125,000, all of […]
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