An online workshop series for educators, “Service Learning/Community-Based Learning: Making It Work for Your Students, Your Community, Your University,” will be offered in July to University of Maine System faculty members and graduate students. Linda Silka, Senior Fellow at UMaine’s George Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions; Lois-Ann Kuntz, associate professor of psychology at the University […]
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University of Maine Raymond H. Fogler Library will host a free webinar about managing personal finances during the COVID-19 pandemic 1–2 p.m. Tuesday, June 16. Topics will include starting a budget, understanding financial literacy and the effect of the pandemic on retirement planning. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentations. The webinar will feature presentations […]
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The Conversation published an article by Michael Socolow, associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, titled “Aiming for novelty in coronavirus coverage, journalists end up sensationalizing the trivial and untrue.” Socolow writes that news organizations’ effort to disseminate new information as fast as possible may cause them to forgo stories that […]
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Morning Ag Clips highlighted the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s online professional development sessions for adults working with youth. The free Virtual 4-H Quarantine Professional Development is designed for after-school providers, 4-H volunteers, teachers — any adult working directly with youth. Session topics include making and tinkering, supporting social and emotional learning, observing the natural […]
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Morning Ag Clips promoted the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s updated and expanded resources for the caretakers of small ruminants. The Extension’s sheep and goat program webpage now includes new publications on caring for young stock purchased off the farm, updated production and health management information, an updated sheep shearers list, and marketing resources and […]
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A University of Maine researcher and six graduate students are helping Maine state officials estimate the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. Andrew Crawley, an assistant professor of regional economic development with the UMaine School of Economics, and his students are working with the State Economist’s Office to develop forecasts for how much COVID-19 will […]
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Facebook featured University of Maine School of Nursing graduates Kate Ford and Sierra Austin and highlighted the school’s virtual pinning ceremony in its video “#Graduation2020: Facebook and Instagram Celebrate the Class of 2020.” “Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we were unable to offer in-person commencement ceremonies, so we celebrated them in a beautiful virtual pinning […]
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News Center Maine, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on the University of Maine manufacturing more than 2,200 bottles of testing solutions required to perform aerosol fit tests of N95 masks. UMaine production of the solutions came at the request of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention in response to a national […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Griffin Dill, an integrated pest management professional who manages University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab, about the increase in tick testings from the previous year. The lab so far has received 780 ticks for testing, Dill said, a number the lab usually does not reach until June 10. The […]
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Morning Ag Clips and the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel highlighted two free webinars about invasive species that the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry will host on May 21. Invasive plant biologist Nancy Olmstead will teach “Invasive Plant Ecology and Identification” from 9–10 a.m. and “Invasive Plant […]
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