Jonathan White will sign copies of “Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean” at his noon talk Wednesday, March 1 at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole. White, a mariner and marine conservationist, ran educational programs aboard his 65-foot wooden schooner, Crusader, in the 1980s. The Crusader was nearly destroyed in […]
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University of Maine oceanographer Bob Steneck snorkeled on a remote coral reef and sailed a tall ship off Cuba with University of Southern Maine students enrolled in a Winter Term course. Those activities were part of an innovative, team-taught, 20-day course — Navigating Change in Cuba: Sustainable Maritime Environments and Tourism Development — with lead […]
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The Bangor Daily News previewed the University of Maine’s 2017 International Dance Festival scheduled for 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18 at the Collins Center for the Arts. The 13th annual event showcases an array of traditional music, dance and clothes from around the world that is representative of the diverse student body at […]
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The Portland Press Herald published an article on the FoodCorps program and its efforts to improve the eating habits of Maine students. FoodCorps is a national service organization affiliated with AmeriCorps that places its service members in high-need areas where schools are an important part of the nutritional safety net, according to the article. A […]
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Wade Warman, a kinetic artist and graduate student at the University of Maine, has been helping seventh- and eighth-graders from Deer Isle-Stonington Elementary School make physics projects at the Fab Lab at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, The Ellsworth American reported. The Fab Lab is a scaled-down version of a lab at the Massachusetts Institute […]
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The public is invited to a diversity dialogue with students from Tree Street Youth during their visit to the University of Maine on Tuesday, Feb. 21. Tree Street Youth is a Lewiston-based nonprofit offering after-school and summer programs to predominantly low-income students from immigrant or refugee families. Founded in 2011, the agency supports Lewiston-Auburn youth […]
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Maine Maple Sunday is not until March 26, but the sap is already flowing in some parts of the state according to Kathy Hopkins, a maple syrup expert with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. A typical season for maple producers is usually a cold January and February, with trees being tapped in mid-to-late February […]
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University of Maine marine scientist Rick Wahle is co-chairing a June conference in Portland, Maine focused on the impact of the changing ocean environment and the global economy on the biology and business of lobsters. About 200 biologists, oceanographers, industry members and fishery managers from more than a dozen countries are expected to attend the […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the University of Maine women’s basketball team’s annual Play4Kay breast cancer awareness game Feb. 12. The team wore pink jerseys in the game against Stony Brook, which they won 78–71. Play 4Kay is named after Kay Yow, a longtime North Carolina State women’s coach who died of breast cancer in […]
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Lynne Holland, a community education assistant with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, will lead a March 9 talk in Freeport on pesticide-free methods of combating the browntail moth, The Forecaster reported. The insects damage trees and can cause rashes and “severe reactions” in some who touch the caterpillar’s fur, according to the article. Holland’s talk […]
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