The Bangor Daily News published Zachary T. Wood’s outdoors article about what an early spring can mean for Maine’s lakes. Wood is a Ph.D. student in the ecology and environmental sciences program at the University of Maine. During an early ice-out, Wood said the upper reaches of a lake warm faster and lake stratification (a […]
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Bruce Hoskins, a scientist of plant, soil and environmental sciences at the University of Maine; and Susan Erich, director of UMaine’s School of Food and Agriculture, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an article about testing soil for home gardens. “The whole local food movement is built on soil health. It’s a huge deal,” […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the 22nd annual Rural Living Day held in Thorndike. The University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Waldo County Extension Association hosted the event that included workshops on topics such as building small homes, baking bread, birding, pasturing chickens, plant propagation, making maple sugar and candy, and growing berries in […]
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The tick identification program offered by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald article about the effects this winter’s mild temperatures have had on Maine creatures. Typically, ticks are prevalent in Maine for just over half the year, from the middle of spring to the middle of the fall, […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “Here’s my big hope: One day, being born a female won’t be a curse,” by Reza Jalali, coordinator the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs at the University of Southern Maine. Jalali is the author of “The Poets and the Assassin,” a play about women in Iran and […]
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WABI (Channel 5), WLBZ (Channel 2) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on the fourth annual Literacy Tea event held at John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor. The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development co-sponsored the event that was organized by Literacy Volunteers of Bangor. Susan Bennett-Armistead, a professor of literacy education […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) reported on the Portland Public Library’s exhibit of William Shakespeare’s First Folio. The University of Maine Humanities Center and Department of English co-sponsored a bus trip to Portland to tour collections at the Osher Map Library, as well as attend a public lecture and view Shakespeare’s First Folio. “I think anything that […]
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Greg Porter, a professor of agronomy at the University of Maine, was quoted in the latest column in the Portland Press Herald “Maine Gardener” series, titled “UMaine research leads to the introduction of two new potato varieties.” The author wrote he was surprised last winter when he saw Caribou Russet and Pinto Gold, two new […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) reported on the wrap up of Islamic Awareness Week, which invited members of the University of Maine and surrounding communities to learn about Islamic faith and culture. UMaine’s Muslim Students’ Association (MSA) and the Islamic Center of Maine, an Orono mosque, sponsored the seventh annual event, which culminated with two guest speakers […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported the University of Maine Center on Aging and Eastern Area Agency on Aging (EAAA) are offering a free screening and guided discussion of the short documentary “Nine to Ninety.” The half-hour film captures the true story of an elderly couple in California living with one of their adult daughters, her […]
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