Down East magazine included the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in its article titled “An A–Z Guide to Agrarian Self-Reliance in Maine.” UMaine Extension offers affordable workshops on a variety of agricultural topics, and has posted more than 200 educational videos on YouTube.
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Tora Johnson, chair of the division of environmental and biological sciences at the University of Maine at Machias, co-authored an opinion piece published in the Portland Press Herald titled “COVID maps don’t tell the whole story about where virus has spread.” Johnson also is an associate professor of Geographic Information Systems and director of the […]
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University of Maine Campus Recreation is participating in the 2020 Recreation Movement, a collaboration between Riddle & Bloom, TikTok, the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) and more than 40 colleges and universities nationwide encouraging people to “stay active together, even when we’re apart” during the COVID-19 pandemic. This free virtual fitness program connects university students, […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and Mainebiz reported on the University of Maine’s efforts to help tackle supply shortages faced by health care providers during the coronavirus pandemic. The station also shared the news release. The first UMaine-led initiative to help meet the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers focuses on production of […]
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News Center Maine reported that researchers from the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing are using the visualization computer cluster in Emera Astronomy Center’s Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium to model coronavirus proteins and predict their three-dimensional shapes as part of the Rosetta@home project from the University of Washington. Studying COVID-19 proteins has helped guide the […]
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Todd Gabe, a professor of resource economics and policy at the University of Maine, conducted analysis with Richard Florida, co-founder and editor at large of CityLab and a senior editor at The Atlantic, for the CityLab article “The Coronavirus Class Divide in Cities.” They identified cities and metro areas where workforces are most exposed and […]
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WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) and the Portland Press Herald reported on a University of Maine-led initiative to produce hospital-grade sanitizer for hospitals across the state as part of a partnership between the University of Maine System and the Maine Emergency Management Agency (MEMA). UMaine’s Process Development Center (PDC) and faculty in chemical and biomedical […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot and the Bangor Daily News shared that the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast is opening registration for online summer courses for undergraduate, graduate and early college students. Courses will run from May 11 to Aug. 21. The center transitioned the formerly on-campus classes to a remote-access format in response […]
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The Mount Desert Islander and The Ellsworth American interviewed Jon Reisman, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Maine at Machias, for an article about the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act approved by Congress and President Donald Trump. “This is a huge injection of liquidity into the […]
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Maine Public interviewed Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, and Andrew Pershing, chief scientific officer and climate change ecologist for the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, for the Maine Calling piece “Climate Change & COVID-19: How Pandemic-Driven Changes in Behavior Might Affect Our Environment.” The report explores the drop in […]
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