For the fifth year, University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Beef Producers Association will host the Maine Cattlemen’s College on Saturday, Oct. 15, beginning at 9 a.m., at the J. F. Witter Teaching and Research Center, 160 University Farm Road, Old Town. This year’s event will focus on forage and include topics such […]
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The Bangor Daily News and News Center Maine featured Susan Smith, director of Intermedia Programs at the University of Maine, and her piece “Radical Gardening,” which features PFAS-contaminated water; skeins of yarn and fabric colored with PFAS-contaminated dye; and dried plants and flowers that grew in PFAS-laden soil, preserved in beeswax. The piece is presently […]
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The Maine Monitor quoted Darren Ranco, professor of anthropology at the University of Maine, in an article about toxic PFAS compounds concentrating over time in landfills near the Penobscot Indian Reservation, which threaten both the health of tribal members and traditions that bound them through millennia to the waterway they know as “pαnawάhpskek.” “Our holy […]
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The Maine Monitor interviewed Jean MacRae, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, to answer questions about PFAS. Maine has some of the highest levels of PFAS water contamination she has seen in her work with communities around the country, possibly because this state is at the forefront of testing. […]
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The Maine Monitor spoke to Jean MacRae, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, about LD 1911, a bill that would redirect much of the state’s PFAS-contaminated sludge to the state-owned Juniper Ridge Landfill, located in Old Town near the Penobscot Reservation. Sevee & Maher Engineering has been hired to […]
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Onur Apul, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, was interviewed by the Bangor Daily News for an article about ECT2 (Emerging Compounds Treatment Technologies), a Portland-based company conducting pioneering work in the removal of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as forever chemicals. “As a Maine-based researcher […]
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The Bangor Daily News, the Courier-Gazette, WFVX (Fox22/Channel 7 in Bangor) and WABI (Channel 5 in Bangor) featured the research of Onur Apul, an assistant professor of environmental engineering. Apul will investigate how to destroy the forever chemicals, or PFAS, that accumulate in a common water filtration technology, granular-activated carbons. Apul’s work will be funded […]
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Investigating a possible method for eliminating the toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, is the objective of a new National Science Foundation-funded study led by Onur Apul from the University of Maine. NSF awarded $250,000 for Apul, an assistant professor of environmental engineering, to research how to remove PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals”, […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Jean MacRae, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, in an article revealing that most Maine bottled water companies aren’t testing for PFAS. “The bottled water you buy from the store is badly under-regulated for drinking water,” MacRae said. Egreenews shared the BDN report.
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If passed by the full Congress and signed by the President, the FY23 federal budget will provide $53.3 million to the System in one-time funding to advance key university workforce development and innovation projects, many of them led by the R1 University of Maine, to address state needs Orono, Maine — Leaders across the University […]
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