HortiDaily shares Kolbenson profile
HortiDaily shared a profile about rising sophomore Will Kolbenson, who is studying potato pathogens this summer thanks to a lab position created using an award from the Maine Jobs and Recovery Plan.
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UMaine featured in Fiske Guide to Colleges 2024
The Fiske Guide To Colleges 2024 named the University of Maine one of the “best and most interesting” four-year higher education institutions in America. The publication, authored by former New York Times education editor Edward Fiske and updated annually for 40 years, spotlights more than 300 of its top schools in the U.S., Canada, Great […]
Read moreNews Center Maine features UMaine Climate Reanalyzer
News Center Maine featured the work of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer and Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute. Birkel discussed the warning signs presented by the recent spate of record hot weather. […]
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Will Kolbenson: From the greenhouse, to the lab, to the field
Will Kolbenson is spending his summer with spuds. Thanks to a statewide job creation program, the rising sophomore has taken his love for botany to a University of Maine lab to study potato pathogens, with work that takes him into the greenhouse and even into the field. Prior to enrolling at UMaine, Kolbenson attended Academy […]
Read moreMedia cite UMaine Climate Reanalyzer in reporting about hottest week on record
The Associated Press, New York Times, CNN, Fortune, Axios, Mother Jones, CBS News, USA Today, Maine Monitor, The Globe and Mail, Phys.org, Space.com, Science News, The Pointer, Spectrum News 1 (Austin, Texas) and The Nation cited data from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in reporting about how Earth’s average temperature set a new unofficial […]
Read moreMedia cite UMaine Climate Reanalyzer in reporting about ‘unofficial hottest day on record’
The Associated Press, CNN, The Guardian, The Independent, Mother Jones, Marketplace, Forbes, The Hill, IFLScience, New Scientist, People, Washington Post, the Boston Globe, UPI, Vox and Maine Public cited the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer to report that July 3 and 4 were Earth’s unofficial hottest days on record. The record is preliminary, pending […]
Read morePPH reports on UMaine browntail moth research
The Portland Press Herald reported on University of Maine research investigating whether it’s possible to disrupt the mating patterns of the browntail moth as a way to curtail populations and limit the range of the forest pests. The research team, led by Angela Mech, assistant professor of forest entomology at the UMaine, has landed $325,000 […]
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Laura Curioli: Madison Fellow learning how to teach the Constitution
As an aspiring high school teacher, Laura Curioli, a University of Maine master’s student in history, wants to educate future students about the Constitution so they can learn their rights and become effective voters and leaders. “A lot of people underestimate high schoolers, in my opinion,” she says. “They also fail to remember that these […]
Read moreWired cites Climate Reanalyzer data in article about El Niño
Wired cited data from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer showing extremely warm Atlantic Ocean temperatures in an article about whether a forming El Niño will be able to stem this year’s hurricane season. Hakai Magazine shared the Wired article.
Read moreMaineBiz cites UMaine study about snowmobiling industry
In an article about racing snowmobiles and ATVs at the Caribou Spud Speedway, MaineBiz cited a University of Maine study commissioned by the snowmobile program of the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry showing that snowmobiling brings adds an estimated $600 million to Maine’s economy annually.
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