Gardening, hunting, fishing, foraging and maintaining backyard poultry and livestock increased in rural New England during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. A new study found that these activities, […]
The Northern Forest Region — 26 million acres of woodlands spanning Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and northern New York — is changing due to climate change, invasive insects and other […]
Spud Smart highlighted a variant of potato from the University of Maine potato breeding program, AF5819-2, in the 2024 New Potato Varieties Catalog for Canada. This variety of potato is […]
WFVX TV (FOX 22 Bangor) promoted $745,000 in federal funding for a University of Maine research project to accelerate the transition from plastic to a more sustainable, recyclable and biodegradable […]
Spudman interviewed Mario Murad Leite Andrade, University of Maine assistant professor of potato breeding and genetics, on the potato breeding program at UMaine and drought tolerance. Andrade said students in […]
Agriculture Dive interviewed Sahir Advani, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Maine, about his research into the causes of mass oyster mortalities along the coast of British Columbia […]
The Conversation published an article by University of Maine assistant professor of political science and international affairs Nick Micinski that shows how funding for the United Nations Relief and Works […]
The Boston Globe featured University of Maine alumni Patrick Breeding and Amber Boutiette, who founded the skincare company Marin and started a lotion product made with lobster glycoprotein in an article […]
Country Folks interviewed Alicyn Smart, plant pathologist and director of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Plant Disease Diagnostics Lab, and one of her laboratory technicians, Ruby Bonilla, about several […]
A showcase of current research and creative projects in the humanities, “Visions 2024,” will be held on Thursday, February 8 from 5–7:30 p.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts. […]
