Adam Daigneault is analyzing how Maine’s working forests and farms can also be employed to mitigate greenhouse gases (GHG) that are warming the planet. The University of Maine E.L. Giddings Assistant Professor of Forest, Conservation, and Recreation Policy is identifying cost-effective and impactful practices — think commercial thinning and no-till farming — for a United […]
Read more
University of Maine students Ivy Flessen, Bria Lamonica and Leela Stockley are the spring–fall 2020 Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center undergraduate fellows. Fellows receive $4,000 a semester for two consecutive semesters while they work on their chosen humanities projects and serve as humanities ambassadors to peers, the campus and beyond. Flessen, from Oswego, Illinois, […]
Read more
University of Maine Cooperative Extension has released recommendations for farmers in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Anne Lichtenwalner, UMaine Extension veterinarian, associate professor, and director of the Extension Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, authored the guide. “While there’s no evidence that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 is affecting livestock, or any species besides humans, it’s important to […]
Read more
CEO Magazine named the University of Maine Graduate School of Business a Tier I program, and its MaineMBA No. 26 in online degrees in its 2020 global rankings released this week. The MaineMBA’s 2020 ranking is two places higher than last year. “We are particularly proud of these rankings, comparing us to the best business […]
Read more
WABI (Channel 5) previewed the annual Concert for a Cause at the University of Maine at 7 p.m. March 10. The event is a fundraiser for Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center’s Champion the Cure Challenge to support local cancer research. The performance included the University of Maine Concert Band, the Leonard Middle School Symphonic […]
Read more
Women, anger and political change are topics of an April 2 lecture by award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister at the University of Maine. The free, public lecture “Good and Mad: Rebecca Traister on Women, Anger, and Political Change” begins at 4:30 p.m. in Hutchins Concert Hall at the Collins Center for the Arts. Traister is a […]
Read more
University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant will offer four free “Signs of the Seasons” training sessions for volunteer citizen scientists around the state. March 16, 4–6:30 p.m., Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, 20 Gilsland Farm Road, Falmouth March 24, 4–6:30 p.m., Audubon Fields Pond Station, 216 Fields Pond Road, Holden April 8, 4–6:30 […]
Read more
The Bangor Daily News and WABI (Channel 5) covered the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Growing Hemp in Maine Conference. While on sabbatical last year, John Jemison, Extension professor of soil and water quality, observed the growing, harvesting, drying and marketing of hemp in Colorado. He came away with respect for large industrial farms there […]
Read more
The Sun Journal posted a media release about four free “Signs of the Seasons” training sessions for volunteer citizen scientists offered by University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant. Sessions are: March 16, 4–6:30 p.m., Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, 20 Gilsland Farm Road, Falmouth; March 23, 4–6:30 p.m., Audubon Fields Pond Station, 216 Fields […]
Read more
The Piscataquis Observer posted a University of Maine Cooperative Extension media release announcing workshops about using small-scale greenhouses to extend the growing season will be held in March. The first, 1 to 3 p.m. March 12, is at the UMaine Extension Piscataquis County office, 165 East Main St. in Dover-Foxcroft. And the second, 10 a.m. […]
Read more