With thousands of Maine residents and tourists preparing for Fourth of July grilling and picnicking, University of Maine Cooperative Extension food safety expert Jason Bolton in the UMaine Extension Bangor office is available to discuss food handling and cooking tips to keep food-borne illnesses at bay. Bolton also discusses food safety while camping or hiking […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the University of New Hampshire will host a pasture walk from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 10, at Balfour Farm in Pittsfield. The event will include presentations about organic dairy farms, pasture intakes and dairy cow diets. The pasture walk is open to the public and […]
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Photographs from the recent book coauthored by Paul Mayewski, the director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, will be displayed July 6-28 in a San Francisco art gallery. The Canessa Gallery will show restored period photographs and other images from “Journey Into Climate: Adventure, The Golden Age of Climate Research, and the Unmasking of Human Innocence,” […]
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University of Maine Center on Aging Director Len Kaye is available to discuss how the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on the proposed repeal of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act may affect Americans, older Americans and baby boomers in particular. Kaye, in Bangor, is at (207) 262-7922 or len.kaye@umit.maine.edu. The decision […]
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Adrienne Leppold, a University of Maine Ph.D. candidate in the School of Biology and Ecology, has been awarded a Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation fellowship for her work studying songbird migration in the Gulf of Maine. Leppold works with UMaine bird biologist Rebecca Holberton, who leads the Northeast Regional Migration Monitoring Network. More information about […]
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A four-state project comes as disappearing wild honey bee populations and dwindling commercial populations are impacting fruit and berry growers who rely on bees for crop pollination.
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UMaine is looking at ways to help dairy farmers meet the demands of the market.
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A University of Maine Hudson Museum video of an interview with Passamaquoddy basketweaver Molly Neptune-Parker of Princeton, Maine, was posted on the National Endowment for the Arts website as part of an announcement that Neptune-Parker was named one of nine National Heritage Fellows. The video was created by the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance and the […]
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New project will connect private industry with UMaine researchers in order to validate, demonstrate and help commercialize developing fuel, chemical and advanced material technologies from forest bioproducts.
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Fourteen interns, about half of whom are international graduate and undergraduate students, will take part in the 2012 Acadian Internship Program in Regional Conservation and Stewardship course July 16-Aug. 22. Based in Acadia National Park, the annual program is co-sponsored by the University of Maine, with participation from nearly 10 UMaine faculty and staff members […]
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