Jim Dill, a pest management specialist with University of Maine Cooperative, spoke with WLBZ (Channel 2) about black fly season in Maine. Dill said the amount of black flies varies by location, and that there tends to be more flies near streams, rivers or other fresh bodies of water. If bug spray doesn’t help keep […]
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The Associated Press reported hundreds of students will visit the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center on May 20 to compete in the Windstorm Challenge and the 8th annual Maine Wind Blade Challenge. The competitions are for middle- and high-school students. Winning team members will be offered internships with the center if they […]
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Griffin Dill, coordinator of the tick ID program at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for the article, “Are ticks keeping kids indoors? Maine schools help educate families about Lyme, other tick-borne diseases.” Last year, 1,200 probable and confirmed cases of Lyme disease were reported to the Maine Center […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the editorial, “Flagship Match gives UMaine a leg up, solves a piece of Maine’s workforce problem,” which praises one of the University of Maine’s latest admissions initiatives. The Flagship Match program allows qualified students from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and New Jersey to pay the same tuition and […]
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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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