The Bangor Daily News carried a column by Kate Yerxa, nutrition educator at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, about community supported agricultural farm share opportunities. She explains that winter is the time to begin researching farms that sell shares to the community and how to determine which produce options make sense for families.
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Bruce Sidell, UMaine professor and founding director of the university’s School of Marine Sciences, died on Tuesday at the age of 62. Sidell’s professional accomplishments included extensive research in Antarctica where a peninsula known as the “Sidell Spur” bears his name. “Bruce Sidell was an exemplary faculty member, mentoring and inspiring countless students while contributing […]
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WLBZ reported on the Tuesday’s Nano Expo, which took place on the UMaine campus. The event, which drew more than 200 students and teachers from three area middle schools, is part of UMaine’s “Making Stuff” collaboration with Boston public television station WGBH, the Challenger Learning Center and the Maine Discovery Museum, and introduces students to […]
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Robert Bayer, the executive director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, commented in an MPBN radio report about a line of high-end lobster products being offered as a partnership between chefs and Casco Bay-based lobstermen. Bayer said the partnership is unique because it is a cooperative producing value-added products.
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The media met Tuesday with Donald Julius, the third candidate for the UMaine president position to visit the campus. Julius, who is currently an administrator in the University of Alaska system, told the Bangor Daily News UMaine should create its own revenue streams rather than relying on the state’s General Fund. WABI also covered interviewed […]
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Contacts: Sarah Joughin, 581-3423 ORONO – The University of Maine’s seventh annual International Dance Festival, showcasing the traditional music, dance and costumes of some of the 400 international students at UMaine is set for Saturday, Feb. 19, at the Collins Center for the Arts. Two free performances of dances from around the world are scheduled […]
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Contact: Sally Jacobs at sjacobs@maine.edu ORONO — As a result of their largest combined effort so far, the Orono Land Trust and Bangor Land Trust have conserved 2,738 acres of forests, meadows, wetlands, and lakeshores in the Bangor-Alton area. This follows the 2001 establishment of the Caribou Bog-Penjajawoc Lands Project (Corridor Project) aimed at regional […]
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The Montgomery News of Fort Washington, Pa., has a story about Michael Burgess, a UMaine alumnus who was hired as a research botanist at the Morris Arboretum. Burgess received his doctorate from UMaine, where he completed dissertation research on the genus Amelanchier, known as the serviceberry. Burgess will be responsible for updating and redesigning the […]
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A Waterville Morning Sentinel op-ed column about the possible repeal of Maine’s Kid-Safe Products Act mentioned a study by UMaine economist Mary Davis. According to the column, written by a Colby College student, Davis calculated the legislation could save the state an average of $1,350 per child every year in reduced health care and economic […]
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Contact: Judith Josiah-Martin, (207) 581-1437 ORONO — Ilyasah Al-Shabazz, daughter of 1960s human rights activist Al-Shaheed Malik Shabazz, otherwise known as Malcolm X, will speak Feb. 17 at the University of Maine as part of African American History Month observances. An author, activist and lecturer, Ilyasah Al-Shabazz will speak at 4 p.m. at the University […]
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