University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist David Handley discussed this year’s early strawberry season in a Portland Press Herald feature article, which included recipes for cooking with strawberries. The article also noted a July 10 Cooperative Extension class in Falmouth on making, canning and freezing strawberry jam. Contact: George Manlove, (207) […]
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network interviewed University of Maine economics graduate student Travis Blackmer about research he and colleagues did last year through the School of Economics assessing the contents of household garbage samples throughout Maine, which revealed 60 percent of what was discarded could have been recycled or composted at substantial economic savings to […]
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UMaine is looking at ways to help dairy farmers meet the demands of the market.
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A University of Maine Hudson Museum video of an interview with Passamaquoddy basketweaver Molly Neptune-Parker of Princeton, Maine, was posted on the National Endowment for the Arts website as part of an announcement that Neptune-Parker was named one of nine National Heritage Fellows. The video was created by the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance and the […]
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New project will connect private industry with UMaine researchers in order to validate, demonstrate and help commercialize developing fuel, chemical and advanced material technologies from forest bioproducts.
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An opinion column by University of Maine associate professor of computing and information science Jonathan Farley about the Baxter Academy for Technology and Science appeared in the Portland Daily Sun newspaper. Farley, who is also a math consultant and a member of the advisory board for Baxter Academy, argued that schools specializing in science, technology, […]
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An opinion column in the Bangor Daily News by University of Maine professor of philosophy Michael Howard used analogies to characterize the needs and wants of the poor in the context of the economics principal of declining marginal utility. He discusses differences between items or experiences considered “pleasers” or “relievers,” and the balance based upon […]
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University of Maine School of Policy and International Affairs graduate student Ian Henderson of Hampden, who is currently serving a research internship in Cairo, Egypt, was interviewed by the Bangor Daily News about what he’s been seeing firsthand as Egypt held its first democratic election last week. Henderson called the atmosphere over the weekend “electric” […]
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The Science360 website has posted a University of Maine research video featuring Rebecca Holberton, professor of biological sciences and a migratory bird expert, and several UMaine graduate students studying how climate change, land development and alternative energy initiatives may be affecting migration patterns of songbirds crossing the Gulf of Maine. The work is part of […]
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Fourteen interns, about half of whom are international graduate and undergraduate students, will take part in the 2012 Acadian Internship Program in Regional Conservation and Stewardship course July 16-Aug. 22. Based in Acadia National Park, the annual program is co-sponsored by the University of Maine, with participation from nearly 10 UMaine faculty and staff members […]
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