WABI (Channel 5) reported on a presentation made to the Bangor City Council by University of Maine Honors College student Jaymi Thibault. For her honors thesis, Thibault studied the city’s ongoing outreach efforts and assess how residents access information from the government. Working with the city, the political science major from Lisbon developed a survey […]
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Fond du Lac Reporter of Wisconsin mentioned the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in the report, “Cranberries: Considerable for the home garden.” Although cranberries naturally grow in acid bogs or marshlands, they can be grown in the home garden as either an ornamental plant or an edible ground cover, according to the article. A separate […]
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The Ellsworth American reported three Husson University students were awarded a $1,500 grant to study stormwater runoff. The students will use the award to design a rain garden on Husson’s Bangor campus, according to the article. Rain gardens are designed to absorb rainwater from impervious surfaces, such as roads and driveways, before the water flows […]
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Maine Public reported the death of Maine’s pulp and paper industry is highly exaggerated, according to a preliminary report by Mindy Crandall, an assistant professor of Forest Management and Economics at the University of Maine. Crandall told those attending a Forest Resources Association meeting in Brewer that despite the closing of eight major biomass power […]
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Mark Hutton, a vegetable specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and professor in the UMaine School of Food and Agriculture, told Growing Produce there are several methods farmers can use to protect their crops from the harmful effects of soil compaction. Methods include minimizing vehicle and foot traffic in the field, alternatives to […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported a committee has been formed to plan the proposed Bangor Celtic Crossroads Festival for a September 2018 launch, and a Celtic music series is set to begin this month to help raise funds and awareness for the festival. Pauleena MacDougall, director of the Maine Folklife Center at the University of […]
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The Morning Sentinel reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension was mentioned during a Somerset County Commissioners meeting in Skowhegan. Board member Robert Sezak said that with the boom in the agricultural movement in Somerset County, he would like to “elevate the profile” of the UMaine Extension Service in the county, according to the article. […]
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Michael Socolow, a professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about popular cable news anchor Megyn Kelly leaving Fox News after 12 years to join NBC. Kelly clashed with president-elect Donald Trump during his campaign, according to the article. While mixing opinion and conservative […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece “Let’s agree on the problem before turning part of downtown Bangor into a parking lot,” by downtown Bangor residents Amy and Lance Blackstone. Amy Blackstone is a sociology professor at the University of Maine. She also is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars […]
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University of Maine climate scientist Gordon Hamilton was included in several media reports on notable Mainers who passed away in 2016. The Associated Press, Portland Press Herald and Maine Public reported on the deaths. The professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and researcher with the Climate Change Institute died in a field […]
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