The Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5), WVII (Channel 7), Mainebiz, Woodworking Network and The Free Press reported on newly announced federal funding that will help members of the Maine Forest Economy Growth Initiative begin implementing strategies to strengthen and diversify Maine’s valued forest economy. At a press conference in Passadumkeag, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary […]
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Mary Ellen Camire, a professor of food science and human nutrition at the University of Maine, spoke with the U.S. News & World Report for an article about the health benefits of vinegar. Grain and fruit vinegars, both of which are fermented, possess beneficial physiological effects, including antibacterial and antioxidant properties and even some anti-cancer […]
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WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle) and the Bangor Daily News covered this week’s 32nd annual Maine Potato Conference in Caribou, put on by University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Soil health was a major topic of this year’s presentations, as growers and industry officials from Maine and other states look for ways to improve yields, […]
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The Maine Edge had kind words for Stephen King’s latest book in an online review. In “Hearts in Suspension,” King and some of the friends, activists, teachers and fellow writers he crossed paths with while attending the University of Maine in the late 1960s and early 1970s, share memories of those turbulent years on the […]
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Seacoast Online reported registration is open for Beginner Bee School starting Feb. 9 at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, 21 Bradeen St., Springvale. Students will learn the basics of bees, honey and keeping hives in this five-week introductory course, according to the article. Master Beekeeper Larry Peiffer, president of the York County Beekeepers’ Association, […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a new 4-H club being offered in Franklin County that will teach children the components that go into raising livestock for market. Supper on the Table was formed late last year by two mothers of children involved in 4-H clubs after recognizing there was a need to educate children […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Ellsworth American reported Noreen Silver, instructor of cello and chamber music at the University of Maine, will perform as a soloist during the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s Jan. 22 concert at the Collins Center for the Arts. Silver’s performance of F.J. Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major with the […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported University of Maine folklorist Edward “Sandy” Ives, who founded the Maine Folklife Center, inspired the Mallett Brothers Band’s latest CD, “The Falling of the Pine: Songs from the Maine Woods.” Will and Luke Mallett’s father, folk singer David Mallett, is an obvious musical influence, but their mother, Jayne Lello, also […]
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Education Week published the commentary “How education is failing rural America,” by Catharine Biddle, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine, and Daniella Hall, a postdoctoral fellow at the Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy.
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A profile on University of Maine President Susan J. Hunter appears in the February 2017 edition of Maine magazine. In the article, “Tried and True,” Hunter is described as a “steadfast steward.” Hunter, the first woman president in the university’s 151-year history, took the role in July 2014, after serving for 10 months as the […]
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