The University of Maine College of Engineering was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald article about the state’s rising need for engineers. According to a UMaine analysis, the Maine economy has gained more than 800 new engineering jobs in the last decade, and each engineer working in the state adds $560,000 to Maine’s gross domestic […]
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Nory Jones and Harold Daniel, professors with the Maine Business School at the University of Maine, spoke with Maine Public for a report about getting a new potato variety on store shelves. The Caribou Russet, which was developed by the Maine Potato Board and UMaine, was unveiled more than a year ago, but has yet […]
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Dana Morse, an aquaculture specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for a story on menu possibilities for Christmas Eve’s Feast of the Fishes. A Catholic tradition, the meal takes place after sundown, but before midnight, and features seafood, not meat. In the story, […]
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A report conducted by the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station at the University of Maine was mentioned in the Mainebiz article, “Maine’s dairy farmers seek ‘fair marketplace.’” According to the article, Maine dairy farmers say their industry could use help from Congress in their efforts to provide milk to customers in a fair marketplace. […]
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The Ellsworth American used crop data compiled by David Yarborough, a blueberry specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, to highlight recent revenue declines facing wild blueberry growers in Maine. According to Yarborough’s numbers, Maine’s glacial barrens and fields have yielded 100 million pounds of blueberries, on average, for the past three years. At […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Gary Anderson, animal and bioscience specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for a story on Hall Farms in East Dixfield. The 200-year-old farm was named 2016 Maine Dairy Farm of the Year by the New England Green Pastures Program. Anderson told the Press Herald the Hall family has […]
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WABI (Channel 5) covered a Bangor Public Library talk by Jim Bishop, one of author Stephen King’s English teachers at the University of Maine. In addition to editing King’s latest book, “Hearts in Suspension,” Bishop also wrote an essay in the book that details what life was like on campus in the late 1960s, according […]
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Lani Carlson, Maine AgrAbility coordinator with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was a recent guest on The Derek Volk Show. The radio show focused on what functional limitation means, particularly in context of farming, and how the state is working with the agriculture community to better employ people with disabilities. Carlson spoke about the […]
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John Jemison, a soil and water quality specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with Richmond Confidential for the article, “Developing Richmond’s Zeneca Site means confronting a legacy of contamination.” According to the article, the city of Richmond, California is considering a redevelopment plan for a brownfield known as the Zeneca site. Once […]
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Jacquelyn Gill, a professor of paleoecology at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on the syndicated weekly Radio Ecoshock Show. The episode, “Welcome to the dark new climate,” focused on how creatures fell into extinction during abrupt climate shifts, sometimes within a single human lifetime. Gill said abrupt climate change hit species before […]
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