University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics Jim McConnon and George Criner, director of the UMaine School of Economics, were interviewed for a sidebar to a Portland Press Herald business article about how Maine lobsters are bought, sold and priced, a subject that has arisen as a result of the controversy in […]
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Dana Morse, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant scientist, was interviewed by KETR-FM, a Texas A&M University-Commerce public radio affiliate of National Public Radio, for an article about Maine’s efforts to increase sea scallop stocks through aquaculture. Morse said farming scallops is challenging because larval scallops take a long time to […]
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The Wall Street Journal was among the news outlets to carry an apple crop report by the Associated Press, which interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension tree fruit specialist Renae Moran. Moran said while many orchards in Maine suffered from a late spring frost, if a grower lost only 10 percent of the flowers to […]
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University of Maine political science professor Mark Brewer was interviewed by a reporter for The Hill, a news service that covers politics, for an analytical report comparing and contrasting presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s running mate, Paul Ryan, a Republican Congressman from Wisconsin, with Vice President Joe Biden. Brewer suggested the fact that both men are […]
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Research confirms regional — not global — climate change in New Zealand and European glaciers during the preindustrial Holocene.
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a new graduate certificate in gerontology program available at the University of Maine beginning online this fall and in classrooms in 2013 for social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, among others. Len Kaye, director of the UMaine Center on Aging and Nancy Fishwick of the UMaine School of Nursing are […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor Rick Kersbergen was interviewed for a recent Maine Public Broadcasting report on organic dairy research under way in Maine. He discussed a study to see how different grasses fed to cows at organic farms improve or affect the quality of the milk they produce. Kersbergen is one of a […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Maine Public Broadcasting Network were among the news organizations reporting that the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has announced a public comment period on plans by the Norwegian energy company Statoil to erect four floating wind turbines 12 nautical miles off the Maine coast. The […]
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Len Kaye, University of Maine professor of social work and director of the UMaine Center on Aging, was interviewed for the July 2012 issue of the national Health Workforce Information Center website. He discussed what many consider an inadequacy in the nation’s healthcare system to serve the onslaught of baby boomers who will turn 65 […]
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Robert Bayer, director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine was interviewed for a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report on the lack of lobster meat processing capacity in Maine and why most lobsters are shipped to Canadian processing plants. For nearly 60 years, he said, Canada has been better equipped than Maine for […]
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