University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Waldo County Extension Association are hosting the 24th annual Rural Living Day from 8:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. April 7 at Mount View High School in Thorndike. Workshops will be offered in three sessions. Topics include adaptive gardening, Maine’s native bees, identifying invasive plants, composting with worms, grafting apple […]
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Simply Straws wants to make the world a better place, sip by sip, with eco-friendly glass straws. And the University of Maine is taking part in the company’s #PledgeAgainstPlasticStraws 2018 Campus Challenge. Throughout the month of April, campuses nationwide are invited to ditch plastic straws to reduce plastic pollution. It’s estimated in the U.S. that […]
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The Sun Journal published an article on Dennis Connelly, a master gardener and food preservationist certified with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Connelly volunteers at the Police Activities League Center in Auburn and the Dempsey Center in Lewiston, according to the article. In about a week, he and the children at the PAL Center […]
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The Republican Journal reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Waldo County Extension Association will host the 24th annual Rural Living Day on April 7 at Mount View High School in Thorndike. All are welcome to attend the daylong event that will feature workshops on a variety of topics, including attracting bees, repelling ticks, […]
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Graduate students in the University of Maine’s Food Science and Human Nutrition Program and Dietetic Internship took their expertise to Augusta this winter to help Maine’s legislators make informed decisions regarding nutrition policy. Emily Duran-Frontera, Anna Wright, Elizabeth Kowash and Mackenzie Clapp culminated the communication effort by helping to host the Maine Academy of Nutrition […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported the University of Maine Concert Band will hold its inaugural “Concert for a Cause” on March 29 at the Collins Center for the Arts. The band, directed by Philip Edelman, will headline an evening of music, fundraising and storytelling beginning at 7 p.m. The Orono High School band and Old Town’s […]
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A recent University of Maine-led study on the changing composition of hardwood forests in the Northeastern United States was cited in the Bangor Daily News article, “How climate change is affecting the Maine maple syrup industry.” Andy Whitman, a forest scientist and the director of sustainable economies at Manomet, a Brunswick-based conservation nonprofit organization, said […]
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VillageSoup reported Knox-Lincoln County Soil & Water Conservation District will hold a backyard composting workshop April 10 at the Knox-Lincoln Cooperative Extension Office in Waldoboro. Liz Stanley, UMaine Extension horticulture program coordinator, and Hildy Ellis, SWCD program manager, will demonstrate a variety of techniques for making compost at home — including aerobic and anaerobic methods […]
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The University of Maine Office of International Programs (OIP) helps support faculty teaching and study abroad programs. Among the faculty funded this year: Amy Blackstone, professor of sociology, was selected as a Universities Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC) Visiting Professor for summer 2018 in Viterbo, Italy. OIP has designated USAC scholarship funds to support several UMaine […]
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The Kaohsiung American School (KAS) String Orchestra will perform at the University of Maine on March 30. The 7:30 p.m. performance in Minsky Recital Hall also will feature the University of Maine Orchestra. Pieces to be performed include “Flight of The Bumblebee” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, “Marche Slav” by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, “Russian Sailor’s Dance” by Reinhold […]
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