The Republican Journal reported the sixth annual Blueberry Cover Half Marathon will take place beginning at 7:30 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 28 in Tenants Harbor. All proceeds from the race around the St. George peninsula will benefit the nonprofit Tanglewood and Blueberry Cove 4-H Camps and Learning Centers, which are programs of the University of Maine […]
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension was mentioned in a Morning Sentinel report about Maine Farm Days in Clinton. The two-day agricultural fair included a U.S. Department of Agriculture demonstration on rainfall to show people, especially farmers and landowners, how different types of soil react to rain, according to the article. The demonstration was one […]
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Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, was interviewed by Politico for the article, “Has Fox News hit its ceiling?” Following the exit of the Fox News chairman and CEO amid sexual harassment allegations, control of the channel will soon fall to Rupert Murdoch’s sons, and with it […]
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University of Maine oceanographer Robert Steneck’s research on coral reef health in the Dominican Republic was cited in an article in Diario Libre, a newspaper in the Caribbean country. Steneck and collaborators assessed the state of the island’s corals using indicators of reef health, including abundance of algal cover, adult corals, juvenile corals and parrotfish. […]
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Susan Bennett-Armistead, a professor of literacy education at the University of Maine, spoke with WVII (Channel 7) at an early childhood education conference in Augusta. Presenters at the two-day event said increasing childhood literacy will boost high school graduation rates, according to the report. By eighth grade, nearly 30 percent of Maine students can’t read […]
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Arthur Barry Adoff, a graduate student in the University of Maine School of Social Work, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Portugal’s experiment with decriminalization shows there’s a better way to address drug use.” Adoff also is a writer who lives in Veazie.
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The Sun Journal reported on Farmington resident Emily Rice’s participation in the Maine Government Summer Internship Program. Rice spent 12 weeks working for the Maine Department of Labor’s Research and Statistics Division in the Bureau of Labor Standards as the records keeping assistant, according to the article. Rice, a political science and history major at […]
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Bucky Owen, a professor emeritus of wildlife ecology at the University of Maine, wrote the opinion piece, “I used to oppose a big park in the North Woods. Now, I see a national monument can work,” for the Bangor Daily News. Owen also is a former commissioner of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and […]
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The Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on the second annual Aging Initiative Workshop at the University of Maine. The workshop was hosted by UMaine’s Office of the Vice President for Research and the Center on Aging to connect faculty and staff across disciplines and professions from all seven University […]
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The Associated Press, Maine Public Broadcasting Network, WLBZ (Channel 2) and Bangor Daily News cited Marcella Sorg, a research professor with the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, in a report about a continued increase in overdose deaths in the state. According to officials, Maine is on pace to set another […]
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