Comments from University of Maine Cooperative Extension Director John Rebar were included in a Bangor Daily News editorial urging support for an upcoming vote on referendum Question 2, a $7.8 million bond request for the University of Maine System. Rebar provided educational information on the work currently being done in UMaine’s animal and plant diagnostic […]
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University of Maine School of Forest Resources students and faculty members Rob Lilieholm, John Daigle and Bill Livingston, anthropologist Darren Ranco, coordinator of UMaine’s Native American Studies, and several Maine Indian Basketmakers were featured in an Oct. 4 airing of “Basket Trees — Saving a Tradition,” a Sustainable Maine documentary on the Maine Public Broadcasting […]
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Bangor Daily News columnist, author, military wife and mother of three Sarah Smiley will be at the University of Maine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 10, to discuss her life and her latest book, “Dinner with the Smileys.” The event is free and open to the public. […]
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Researchers with UMaine’s Climate Change Institute will be blogging while on a trip to South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The expedition members are Climate Change Institute Director Paul Mayewski, UMaine graduate students Bjorn Grigholm and Mariusz Potocki, UMaine postdoctoral researcher Dan Dixon, Chilean researchers Gino Casassa and Marcelo Arevalo, EMT medic Alex […]
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University of Maine students and basketball fans are invited to participate in a “Shoot, Slam and Shuffle” event with UMaine basketball players at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 12, at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. “Knockout for a Cause,” is organized by the Theta Chi fraternity as a fundraiser for Spruce Run, a nonprofit […]
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How do ice cores give scientists a picture of the past in order to better understand what will happen in the future?
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Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article about Maine Public Utilities Commission concerns about the profitability of an offshore wind-power project proposed by the Norwegian Statoil North America company. Dagher said PUC commissioners are not questioning the viability of offshore wind power technology, but […]
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An article in southern Maine’s KeepMECurrent newspapers about several Cumberland-area youths participating in livestock programs at local county fairs cites the students’ participation in 4-H, a youth development program run through the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. UMaine Extension’s Jessy Brainerd, who was interviewed for the article, said 4-H membership has grown to 2,765 members, […]
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