Daily Bulldog published a University of Maine news release about research being conducted by Susan Elias, a doctoral student at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute. Elias is studying deer ticks and their spread across Maine. “Maine in 2014 had the highest incidence of Lyme disease of all the states in the country,” Elias said. The Midcoast […]
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Griffin Dill, coordinator of the tick ID program at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was cited in an Associated Press article about the prevalence of ticks that carry Lyme disease in New England. The pests have reached into northern Maine and are increasing in Vermont, where the state’s entomologist expects cases of the disease […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Morning Ag Clips reported on the second installment of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s “Growing Maine,” a series of short documentaries highlighting Maine food producers and farm families. The second video in the series tells the story of Doreen and John Simmons of Stoneheart Farm in South Paris, and […]
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Vivian Chi-Hua Wu, a professor of microbiology and food safety at the University of Maine, was quoted in a DNA India article that listed seven health benefits of blueberries. One of the listed benefits of the superfood is that it improves digestion. “Addition of wild blueberries to diet can alter the balance of gut microbe […]
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The Portland Press Herald and Fosters.com reported the York County Commissioners have launched a joint venture with a coalition of nonprofits to replace assistance to food-insecure families lost when York County Food Rescue abruptly shut down. The group, Partners for a Hunger-Free York County, will occupy the same county-owned space as the former Food Rescue […]
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The University of Maine’s drone use policy was included in a Bangor Daily News article about the Maine Principals’ Association joining a growing number of state organizations around the country that have adopted prohibitions on unmanned aerial systems, or drones, at their athletic events. MPA general membership approved at its recent spring conference a policy […]
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Fosters.com reported the Maine Educational Opportunity Center (MEOC) will host a free workshop, “Essentials of College Planning,” at the Springvale Career Center at 10 a.m. on Monday, June 6, 13 and 27. The workshop is intended for adults ages 19 and older. MEOC is funded by the U.S. Department of Education and helps qualified adults […]
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Mainebiz published an article on a science of brewing course being offered by Jason Bolton of University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Brian Perkins of the School of Food and Agriculture. They developed FSN FSN 121 Brewing with Food Science three years ago. The undergraduate course is so popular that enrollment is capped at 80 […]
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Habib Dagher, executive director of the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center which is developing offshore wind technology, was quoted in the Bloomberg article, “The oil industry can teach offshore wind farms how to stay afloat.” Floating turbine foundations cost about eight times more than seafloor-based supports for their conventional counterparts, according to […]
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A 2014 study by Sandra Butler, a University of Maine social work professor, was cited in The Daily Signal article, “How Maine’s time limit on welfare pushed one woman to pull herself out of poverty.” Since Maine reinstated the 60-month lifetime limit for benefits, which took effect in 2012, the number of cases in the […]
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