What can businesses learn from the military about making good decisions? Find out in this week’s episode of “The Maine Question.” Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the fast pace of the business world required companies to make good decisions quickly in order to survive and thrive. Maine Business School professors Nory Jones and John Mahon […]
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Twenty student researchers and teams from the University of Maine received poster awards in the annual Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium (MBMSS), a statewide gathering hosted by MDI Biological Laboratory that is designed to encourage students, scientists and entrepreneurs to share research results, exchange ideas, promote collaboration and facilitate networking opportunities. This year’s two-day […]
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“In this together.” That’s the message that has resonated with the University of Maine student population and the University of Maine System through a most unusual spring semester. University Bookstore, located on the lower level of the Memorial Union, is doing what it can to help bring that message to support students through the Student […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering guidelines for community gardens during the COVID-19 outbreak based on CDC recommendations. Community Garden Guidelines in the Time of Social Distancing includes recommendations for at-risk individuals, how to support social distancing, manage the numbers of gardeners, and suggested changes for garden operations and routine maintenance during the growing season. […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry will host a twilight meeting online starting at 5:30 p.m. May 12 to discuss best management practices for pick-your-own operations during the COVID-19 outbreak. The discussion will highlight key considerations, including guidance from the Cornell Small Farms Program, toward keeping everyone […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a free online overview of raising backyard poultry from 5:30–7:30 p.m. May 11. Designed for the beginning or prospective backyard and small-scale poultry producers, participants will gain a general understanding of providing for housing, health, and nutrition needs; varieties of waterers and lighting options; and different poultry breeds […]
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The Honors College at the University of Maine will host an online recognition event at 4:30 p.m. Friday, May 8 for the 2020 John M. Rezendes Annual Ethics Essay Competition. The competition invites undergraduate students to submit an 8- to 10-page essay that focuses on ethics, broadly construed. This year’s theme was “ethics and food […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension will host a free webinar about managing safe on-farm cut flower sales in the midst of COVID-19 at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 5. Topics in the discussion will include best practices using case studies and input from participants, and troubleshooting specific operations and their protocols. No registration is needed for […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a new eight-part video series for first-time gardeners. “A Victory Garden for ME” provides an overview of vegetable gardening, from how to get started and what to plant to tending and harvesting the home garden. Weekly virtual office hours will be offered following the release of each video. […]
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Heather Clifford’s groundbreaking study that found a warming planet will make dust storms more intense in the Mediterranean, which will impact glaciers, air quality and frequency of North Atlantic hurricanes, was among the top 10% of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres’ most downloaded papers published between January 2018 and December 2019. Clifford is a […]
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