The New York Times published an article about the Maine Oyster Trail, an interactive guide created and supported by Maine Sea Grant in partnership with the Maine Aquaculture Association. The Trail, the first of its kind in the U.S., features more than 80 Maine oyster businesses and helps people discover and explore Maine’s oyster industry, […]
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The University of Maine’s 109-year-old print shop has undergone a name change to better reflect its expanded mission. To encompass both printing and graphic solutions, Printing Services is renamed Graphic Print Solutions. The print shop aims to empower all those who use it to communicate their ideas and enhance their projects through products such as […]
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Whether it’s through fish stocking, habitat restoration or research, the University of Maine-led Maine Sea Grant is helping the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) conserve Atlantic salmon in the Gulf of Maine — the last wild populations of the species in the U.S. Through a program offered by Maine Sea Grant and NOAA Fisheries […]
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A new paper from two University of Maine researchers explores the challenges and opportunities for scholars and practitioners when it comes to using AI to study and develop interventions for relationship and family therapy. “Challenges and opportunities in using interpretable AI to develop relationship interventions” was published in Family Relations, the academic research journal of […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Pankaj Agrrawal, professor of finance at the University of Maine, on an announcement from Northern Light Health that changes would be coming to the health care system. “[It’s] classic sort of virtue signaling saying the right words, because they know that the minute people see anything from them about finances, […]
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WABI (Channel 5) boosted a request from University of Maine researchers to anglers, asking them to donate their legal striped bass remains after filleting. Researchers, led by UMaine graduate student Abrielle Remick, are using bass remains to analyze and understand the fish’s feeding habits. Remick said findings may help researchers and wildlife management make more […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed David Handley, a vegetable and small fruit specialist at University of Maine Cooperative Extension, on how U-pick farms derived as a way for farmers to sell high value crops without having to pay workers to harvest them. “It was mostly Depression-era children who liked a bargain and were willing to […]
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In a compilation of quotes from expert sources for a story on land conservation and wildlife, Newsweek included commentary from Noah Charney, assistant professor of conservation biology at the University of Maine. “When companies come in and fence off land, drive heavy machinery, build roads and divert water, these cause major changes to the local […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Karyn Sporer, chair and associate professor of sociology at the University of Maine, on a digitally-altered picture of evidence that was posted to the Westbrook Police Department’s social media. “Mainers have always been entering these situations with their eyes wide open and with a healthy skepticism of the police,” Sporer […]
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BBC interviewed Brian McGill, professor of ecological modeling at the University of Maine, on the Biosphere 2 experiment. Conducted in the 1990s, a small team tried to survive in a hermetically sealed space containing replicas of Earth’s ecosystems. McGill suggested the biosphere’s pollinators may have died off because the glass enclosure blocked ultraviolet light, which […]
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