University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management and animal care experts are available for interviews and to discuss ways to protect humans and animals against mosquito- and tick-borne viruses as more mosquitoes in neighboring New Hampshire have tested positive as carriers for West Nile Virus (WNV) this summer. Two weeks ago, the Maine Center for […]
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The new Paul J. Mitchell Batting Pavilion, located next to Mahaney Diamond, will be officially dedicated in a ceremony from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 21. There will be a variety of speakers and guests at the event and Paul J. Mitchell will open the batting cages with the first official swings. The […]
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Two University of Maine undergraduate engineering students are heading this week to a national engineering ambassadorship-training workshop for students interested in creating engineering ambassador outreach programs at their institutions. The workshop will be held Aug. 16-19 at Penn State University. Sheila Pendse, program development associate in the UMaine College of Engineering, will accompany Devin Rose […]
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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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