UMaine Cooperative Extension tree fruit specialist Renae Moran is the lead resource in a York Weekly story about Maine’s 2010 apple crop. She says that yield appears to be down, attributable to a May 11 frost that saw temperatures dip into the low 20s. Southern Maine orchards were hit harder than those in northern Maine.
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UMaine Climate Change Institute glaciologist Gordon Hamilton is featured in a Rolling Stone Magazine story about the accelerated melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Writer Ben Wallace-Wells spent time with Hamilton and his colleagues during an expedition to Greenland. The story also makes reference to the work of Hamilton’s UMaine graduate student Leigh […]
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More than 200 participants have registered for Sunday’s UMaine Counseling Center-sponsored Out of the Darkness Community Walk, an annual suicide and depression awareness walk to benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The event begins with registration at 1 p.m. followed by the 5K walk at 2 p.m. starting on the mall in front of […]
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In an interview with Channel 7 (WVII) on Sept. 22, kinesiologist and physical education researcher Nellie Cyr of the UMaine College of Education and Human Development discussed healthy dietary and lifestyle measures parents and schools can encourage for children as the nation wrestles with an increase in childhood obesity.
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The Bangor Daily News “College Fair Preview” insert features a profile of UMaine senior nursing student Casey Levasseur and senior finance major Brian Landry (page 6). The supplement, part of Wednesday’s newspaper, provides a number of articles related to colleges and universities around Maine. Levasseur, of Millinocket and Landry, of Yorktown, Va., are part of […]
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A comment from retired UMaine Cooperative Extension veterinarian Michael Opitz is included in a Blue Ridge Now news Web site story looking at issues related to salmonella at egg production facilities owned by Austin “Jack” DeCoster. Blue Ridge Now covers western North Carolina.
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The UMaine Museum of Art will host “Bloom,” an artful celebration to benefit the museum’s exhibition and education programs, on Saturday Sept. 25 from 5:30-10 p.m. The event, scheduled for the museum galleries at 40 Harlow St. in Bangor, will feature a complimentary wine bar, hors d’oeuvres by Montes, live entertainment, music by the A […]
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Sandra Butler, a UMaine professor of social work, was one of four Mainers invited by the national Eldercare Workforce Alliance to meet earlier this week with the state’s congressional delegation in Washington, D.C., to urge funding for programs that support Americans with dementia and their caregivers, according to a Bangor Daily News story.
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Bangor Daily News columnist Joni Averill writes about Sunday’s UMaine Counseling Center-sponsored Out of the Darkness Community Walk, an annual suicide and depression awareness walk which benefits the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The event begins with registration at 1 p.m. followed by the 5K walk at 2 p.m. starting on the mall in front […]
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Political science professor Richard Powell will lead a screening and discussion of Robert Redford’s film “The Candidate,” a satirical look at electioneering in the U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Schoenberger Lounge in North Stevens Hall. A discussion will follow. The event, part of the Political Film Series sponsored by the […]
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