Eight internationally known sculptors are putting the finishing touches on their work this week as the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium (SISS) enters its final days in the University of Maine’s Steam Plant parking lot. The site is free and open to the public daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Aug. 30, when a […]
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The website Science 360, a science news website of the National Science Foundation, featured two UMaine research projects on its home page Friday. A UMaine video about copepod research being performed by researcher Andrew Pershing was featured, as was a UMaine news release about marine scientist Rhian Waller, who is in Chile researching deep-sea corals. […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an article about the 2012 Spring Summer edition of the University of Maine-affiliated Puckerbrush Review, a publication of Maine letters, poetry and other literary works created in the 1970s by UMaine English professor and poet Constance Hunting, and edited by UMaine English professor Sandy Phippen after Hunting’s death in 2006. […]
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A Portland Press Herald gardening column about insect pests and fungal blight included comments from University of Maine Cooperative Extension plant disease diagnostician Bruce Watt. Watt said although gladiolus rust fungus, which spoils gladiolus blossoms and leaves, hasn’t been reported in Maine yet, the good news is that gladiolus rust usually dies with the leaves […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension food preservation program aide Kate McCarty about preserving fresh garden tomatoes. McCarty discussed ways to preserve tomatoes, including making salsas with fruit or jalapeno peppers. The article included recipes for salsa and homemade tomato ketchup. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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An article in the Portland Press Herald about the proliferation of crop-damaging garden slugs this summer included comments from University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management specialist Jim Dill, who offered suggestions to kill or discourage slugs, including placing shallow cans of beer or copper screens in the garden. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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El Comercio, Peru’s leading newspaper, has published an interview with University of Maine Ph.D. student Ana Cecilia Mauricio, who recently completed her master’s degree in Quaternary and Climate Studies at UMaine and organized with a Peruvian graduate student, the first conference on Lima culture in the first millennium A.D. in the area around Peru’s capital, […]
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A Bangor Daily News editorial discussed the recent Princeton Review listings of colleges and universities with rankings in a variety of areas, including access to professors, food quality, student satisfaction and campuses prone to partying. The editorial acknowledged that while the ratings are subjective and hard to quantify, university leaders would be well-served to scrutinize […]
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A University of Maine researcher who specializes in the economics of energy, light-duty transportation, greenhouse gas emissions and alternative fuels is heading to Alberta, Canada, Aug. 28-30 to participate in a tour of the Canadian oil sands region, which contains one of the largest proven oil reserves in the world second only to Saudi Arabia. […]
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Several University of Maine administrators and others were interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article discussing the cost and value of UMaine’s athletics programs and sports teams. UMaine President Paul Ferguson, Athletic Director Steve Abbott, Vice President for Administration and Finance Janet Waldron and UMaine history professor Howard Segal were interviewed for the story. Ferguson […]
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