The Free Press reported on the conservation legacy left behind by Leslie Colin Hyde, who passed away Dec. 25. Hyde, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator, helped create many successful nature education and land conservation projects, including the Georges River Land Trust and UMaine Extension Tanglewood 4-H Camp and Learning Center in Lincolnville, according […]
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Seacoast Online reported University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine State Beekeepers Association have opened registration for a five-week Winter Beginner Bee School. The classes will be be held from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays, Feb. 22 through March 22 at Anderson Learning Center in Springvale, according to the article. Instructor Larry Peiffer, master […]
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The 2018 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast Celebration, co-sponsored by the Greater Bangor Area NAACP and the University of Maine Division of Student Life, will be held Jan. 15 at Wells Conference Center on campus. The family-friendly event will celebrate King’s life and legacy, inspiration, dedication to diversity and social commitment. Highlights include a […]
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Tori Jackson, an associate professor of agriculture and natural resources with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News preview of the annual Maine Agricultural Trades Show. The event runs Jan. 9–11 at the Augusta Civic Center and will feature displays of equipment, lectures, training sessions and discussions, as well […]
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Jacquelyn Gill, a University of Maine paleoecologist, is one of the finalists for the Portland Press Herald’s 2017 Mainers of the Year. She helped start a conversation on Twitter that evolved into the March for Science on Earth Day 2017. “I’ve felt catapulted by this national energy around supporting science,” Gill told the Portland Press […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a Dirigo Speaks event that will be held at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Jan. 10. The event, titled “Competing with Age,” will offer BDN readers the opportunity to speak with some motivated Mainers who, despite having logged many years and […]
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The Republican Journal reported the Belfast Senior College at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center will offer a 2018 Winterim session. Classes begin Jan. 18 and will offer a diverse array of interesting learning opportunities, from Shakespeare to knitting, according to the article. Morning session runs from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and afternoon session is […]
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Justin Baron worked a couple of dead-end jobs after graduating high school. He knew he wanted more. The Madawaska, Maine native found what he was looking for in mechanical engineering technology (MET). The University of Maine senior enjoys ensuring a smooth transition between development, design, testing and manufacturing of innovative products. Baron realized that MET […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald article that listed some of the positive actions and events related to sustainability that took place in Maine during 2017. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration allocated a grant of $908,015 for research into sustainable processing of aquacultured seaweed and development of new value-added […]
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A University of Maine Cooperative Extension fact sheet co-authored by Griffin Dill, pest management specialist with Cooperative Extension, and Clay A. Kirby, insect diagnostician, was referenced in a Bangor Daily News article about cluster flies. Cluster flies look like house flies but are larger, with yellowish hairs on the thorax. During late summer, they amass, […]
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