Michael Day, associate research professor in the University of Maine School of Forest Resources, talked with AccuWeather for a story about how a warm fall weather could jeopardize this year’s foliage. According to the story, forecasters are predicting a warm start to fall across the Northeast, as well as dry conditions, could result in foliage […]
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George Kinghorn, director of the University of Maine Museum of Art, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald piece about the show “Contemporary Currents: Nine New Brunswick Artists” that opens Sept. 23 at the downtown Bangor museum. Kinghorn says he was given the keys to a Canadian art vault and told he could borrow whatever […]
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University of Maine dragonfly research was mentioned in a Benito Link article about Pinnacles National Park in California. Volunteers there took part in dragonfly nymph sampling, which is part of a nationwide project between the National Park Service, United States Geological Survey and the University of Maine. The project, according to the article, includes citizen […]
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Nory Jones, a professor of management information systems at the University of Maine, and Jerry Ireland of the United Farmer Veterans of America — Maine, visited WABI (Channel 5) to speak about the MBS Veteran Entrepreneur Project (VEP), an online resource for veterans in the state. The purpose of the website and research project is […]
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The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization about criminal justice, cited a 2008 University of Maine study in the article, “Does college hazing defy the laws it spawned?” The study, which was conducted by researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden, found that more than half of college students involved with student organizations experience hazing, according […]
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Donna Coffin, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator and professor, was a recent guest on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on how to raise backyard chickens.
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article about the expanding options of federal farm assistance programs. United States Department of Agriculture policy changes over the last couple of years have allowed agencies to better help a wider range of farmers and farming operations — including those in Maine, […]
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University of Maine research was included in the Audubon article, “The saltmarsh sparrow is creeping dangerously close to extinction.” The report mentioned the Saltmarsh Habitat and Avian Research Program (SHARP), a scientific task force that spans the Atlantic coast and includes UMaine researchers. Mo Correll, a postdoctoral researcher with UMaine, has spent the past six […]
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Amy Blackstone, a sociology professor at the University of Maine, spoke with TODAY for the report, “‘I don’t think this is for me’: 7 reasons why people choose to be childfree.” Blackstone spoke about a recent study she co-wrote with UMaine graduate Mahala Stewart, titled “There’s More Thinking to Decide: How the Childfree Decide Not […]
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WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle) reported on a farm field day hosted by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension at UMaine’s Aroostook Research Farm in Presque Isle. Field day topics included grain trials, potato breeding and the variety trial program, and crop rotation for control of pink rot potato disease. Lakesh Sharma, a UMaine […]
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