The County reported on two University of Maine chefs teaching culinary students from Houlton’s Region Two School of Applied Technology how to cook meals with local foods. Robert Dumas, the UMaine food science pilot plant manager, and Kathy Savoie, a food and nutrition educator with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, visited the school as part […]
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Glenda Pereira has been named assistant Extension professor and statewide dairy specialist with University of Maine Cooperative Extension. She also is an assistant professor of animal science with the UMaine School of Food and Agriculture. Pereira grew up on her family’s dairy farm in the Azores with 100 purebred registered Holsteins. She pursued her passion […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension and School of Food and Agriculture professor Kate Yerxa shared tips for how to save money on groceries with WAGM (Channel 5 in Presque Isle). Yerxa says preparing a budget is one way shoppers can cut down on costs. “By doing that you can identify really how much money you […]
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The Bangor Daily News cited the Caribou Russet, a potato variety developed by the University of Maine, in a story titled “It’s shaping up to be a banner year for Aroostook County potatoes.” “The Caribou russet is one variety that has really shined this year,” Robby Irving of Irving Farms Inc. in Caribou told the […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Renae Moran about apple picking and the status of the crop this year. “The apple crop in Maine was not affected by any spring frost,” said Moran, professor of pomology at the University of Maine. “The early dry spell has also done no harm either, so growers have an abundance […]
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The Mount Desert Islander and the Ellsworth American cited a middle school science outreach program initiated by Rick Wahle, the director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, using public grant funds. When grant funds were expended, public companies Ready Seafood and Red Lobster partnered with the Cranberry Isles Fishermen’s Co-op to continue the study […]
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WCVB (Channel 5 in Boston) cited “The Maine Lobster Industry: A History of Culture, Conservation & Commerce,” a 2014 book by Cathy Billings, former assistant director of the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute in a story about the history of lobstering in Maine.
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WCVB (Channel 5 in Boston) cited research conducted by the University of Maine Lobster Institute in a story about Marin Skincare, a healing skin lotion made with lobster protein. Two UMaine alumni launched Marin Skincare in October 2020.
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The College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture (NSFA) at the University of Maine will host a live webinar called “NSFA Unlocked” from 2–4 p.m. Sept. 30. Campus leaders from the college in nursing, marine sciences, economics and more will highlight the science and student experiences that inspire their work. The showcase aims to better […]
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Food52 talked with Mary Ellen Camire, a University of Maine professor of food science, about the difference in flavor between mayonnaise recipes that include or lack the preservative calcium disodium EDTA. Camire linked the off taste in organic mayo to oxidation of the oils, or rancidity that occurs more quickly in recipes that do not […]
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