The Associated Press reported Maine officials are looking for volunteers to help with the Maine Bumble Bee Atlas project to document bee range and abundance. A Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife spokesman said the project is important because of significant declines in some species since the 1990s, according to the article. The project […]
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The Maine Edge and The Weekly published a University of Maine news release announcing the winners of the sixth annual Undergraduate Research and Academic Showcase. The event, sponsored by UMaine’s Center for Undergraduate Research, was open to any undergraduate at the university and featured 121 presentations from 229 students in the form of posters, oral […]
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The Bangor Daily News covered the birth of a lamb at the University of Maine’s J. Franklin Witter Teaching and Research Center. Students in the Animal and Veterinary Sciences Program provided care during and after the birth. James Weber, associate professor in the School of Food and Agriculture and the university’s attending veterinarian, is coordinating […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported Acadia Harvest, a startup company that is developing a land-based, indoor fish farm to raise black sea bass and California yellowtail, recently was awarded two grants. The company, which is located at the University of Maine Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research (CCAR) in Franklin, was awarded $657,000 from the National […]
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University of Maine associate professor Denise Skonberg and graduate student Dhriti Nayyar are working with a Bristol company to study the shelf life and nutritional values of aquacultured sea vegetable products. Maine Fresh Sea Farms, a startup based on the Damariscotta River, is one of five Maine companies to share $471,571 in Value Added Producer […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute (CCI) at the University of Maine, gave the keynote address at the seventh annual Maine Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference in Augusta, according to media reports. The two-day event focuses on climate change implications for the state. The Kennebec Journal covered Mayewski’s talk that focused on the […]
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Vivian Wu, a professor of microbiology and food safety in the School of Food and Agriculture, spoke with Food Safety News about her latest research. Wu recently received a $4.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to improve processing technologies to enhance the safety and quality of fresh produce and low-moisture foods, […]
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The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release announcing the 2015 valedictorian and salutatorian. Gwendolyn Beacham of Farmington, Maine, is this year’s valedictorian, and Katelyn Massey of Waterville, Maine, is the salutatorian. Beacham, a biochemistry major and Honors student, also was named the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, […]
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Student research was displayed during the 6th annual Undergraduate Research and Academic Showcase on April 14. The event, sponsored by UMaine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR), was open to any undergraduate at the university and featured 121 presentations from 229 students in the form of 92 posters, 16 oral presentations or performances, and 13 exhibits. […]
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Gregory Porter, chairman of the Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences; and Matt Schultheis, a student in Porter’s lab, spoke with the Maine Public Broadcasting Network for a report about a new potato variety created by UMaine and the Maine Potato Board. Porter described the Caribou Russett as having high quality for fresh consumption, […]
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