The future just became a bit brighter for Maine’s amphibians and fairy shrimp under a new plan that encourages protection of vernal pools. The Vernal Pool Special Area Management Plan fine-tunes existing state regulation to a local level. It will serve as a voluntary mitigation tool that helps towns control their vernal pool resources, provide […]
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It was a rainy afternoon in the Penobscot Experimental Forest when Shantel Neptune, a student in the University of Maine’s Ecology and Environmental Sciences Program, snapped a pair of garden loppers through neon pink flagging tape, culminating a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Neptune and the five fellow members in the Wabanaki Youth in Science (WaYs) group came […]
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Michael Socolow, a media historian and associate professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism, wrote a guest column in The Hollywood Reporter about attending Donald Trump’s rally in Bangor.
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Ruth DeFries, the Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development and University Professor at Columbia University, will give the 2016 Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability at the University of Maine in Orono Oct. 20. Her free public lecture, “Between Optimism and Pessimism: Our Unending Pursuit to Feed Civilization,” will begin at 1 p.m. at the Wells Conference […]
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The annual Marine Sciences Boot Camp at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center offers first-year students a concentrated preview of what their lives will be like as marine sciences majors. “I loved every minute of it,” says Miranda Furnari, a student from Danvers, Massachusetts.“It was so incredible to actually get a taste of what […]
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Growing up in New York City, Zikomo Barr had no notion that he’d one day end up in Maine, pursuing a degree and career in post-secondary student affairs. “It’s not an industry or a field that you aspire to go into when you go to college. It’s something that you stumble upon or realize that […]
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The Orono Bog Boardwalk will close at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15. The closing is six weeks earlier to allow for the third phase of the boardwalk reconstruction. Between the closure and the reopening in the spring, 48 more sections of the boardwalk will be replaced, along with one interpretive station and one wheelchair turnout. […]
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More than 650 students from 12 middle and elementary schools throughout northern and central Maine will convene at the University of Maine on Tuesday, Oct. 11 for the biennial Northern Maine Children’s Water Festival. The festival, which will be held from 9 a.m.–2 p.m. in the New Balance Field House, offers an opportunity for students […]
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Read transcript At the University of Maine, gifts can grow trees and the next generation of foresters. Meet Keith Kanoti, UMaine’s forest manager, and students Alexander Audet and Ben Thorne who gained hands-on experience this summer thanks to timber harvest from Green Endowment lands.
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Editor’s note: Story updated Oct. 5. Stephen King will launch his newest book, “Hearts in Suspension,” at the University of Maine on Nov. 7 with a reading of the book and discussion of his student days at UMaine during the turbulent Vietnam War era, followed by a conversation with his former classmates and friends who […]
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