The Bangor Daily News reported University of Maine women’s basketball forward Liz Wood has been named one of 30 candidates among a national pool for the 2015–16 Senior CLASS Award. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of […]
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Mainebiz reported on the newly opened Blue Ox Malthouse in Lisbon Falls. Company founder Joel Alex said he wanted to provide a local source for malt — a key ingredient in craft beer recipes — rather than exporting grains to Canada to be processed and reimported. Alex told Mainebiz in 2014 that there are 53 […]
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The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release announcing Margaret Chase Smith Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Rep. Ellie Espling will visit campus on Monday, Jan. 25. Margaret Chase Smith Distinguished Maine Policy Fellows are prominent individuals with a past or current career as a policymaker in the state. The Margaret Chase Smith Policy […]
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A 2011 waste characterization study by the University of Maine School of Economics was cited in the Bangor Daily News article, “What it would take for Maine to compost its way to sustainability.” The study found about 43 percent of what Mainers send to landfills and incinerators is compostable, and two-thirds of that waste is […]
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WVII (Channel 7) spoke with John Rebar, executive director of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, and Ann Acheson, a research associate at UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, for a report about Maine’s annual grocery bills being high above the national average. A recently released report from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis found […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in the latest column in the Portland Press Herald “Maine Gardener” series, titled “Catalogs seed desire for new flowers and vegetables.” Two of UMaine’s newly developed potato varieties — Caribou Russet and Pinto Gold — are for sale this year in seed catalogs for the first time, according to […]
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Business Wire published and distributed a First Bancorp news release announcing that Renee Kelly has been elected to serve as a director for The First Bancorp, Inc., and its banking subsidiary, The First, N.A. Kelly is director of economic development initiatives at the University of Maine and co-director of the Foster Center for Student Innovation. […]
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The Maine Edge reported NASA astronaut and Caribou native Jessica Meir will speak at 10 a.m. Jan. 27 at the Collins Center for the Arts to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Challenger Space Shuttle’s final flight. Meir’s appearance is an assembly for Maine schoolchildren, and members of the UMaine community are invited. The event […]
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VillageSoup reported Erik Blomberg, a professor of wildlife population ecology at the University of Maine, will lead a presentation about ruffed grouse in Maine on Tuesday, Jan. 26. Blomberg will speak at noon at Merryspring Nature Center in Camden, according to the article.
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece “This mother’s story highlights Maine’s need for more affordable housing” by Sandra Butler, a professor of social work at the University of Maine. Butler also is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the country to address […]
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