A Lewiston Sun Journal report on winter ticks and Maine’s moose and deer population included a mention of UMaine participation in research into how the ticks may have affected moose. Lee Kantar, the state’s moose and deer biologist, said he has been working the last two winters with UMaine diagnostic lab technicians doing necropsies on […]
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Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, stars of the hit TV show “MythBusters,” were the subjects of a story on the Broadway World website, which noted both men are honorary members of the UMaine’s Francis Crowe Society, which recognizes UMaine engineering graduates and others have made considerable engineering contributions and honored the profession. Hyneman has an […]
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The University of Maine will celebrate the rehabilitation of the university’s 34-year-old bicycle paths with a ribbon-cutting Nov. 10 at 10 a.m. near the Bridge Tennis Courts beside the New Balance Student Recreation Center.
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ORONO, Maine – The Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce announced Monday that Habib Dagher, the founding director of the University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, has been named the winner of the chamber’s Catherine Lebowitz Award for Public Service.
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Channel 2 (WLBZ) and Channel 7 (WVII) interviewed UMaine Ph.D. candidates Janice Duy and Amber Bratcher Monday for news reports about the research the students are doing with School of Marine Sciences research professor Laurie Connell on earlier detection of the toxic algae Alexandrium, commonly known as red tide, which can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning. […]
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The University of Maine National Poetry Foundation will present this year’s Frank and Helene Crohn Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize to Maine native and master’s candidate Jason Canniff, a non-traditional student who teaches college composition and is poetry editor for The Stolen Island Review, the graduate literary magazine at UMaine.
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Len Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging, was interviewed for a special Channel 5 (WABI) report Monday on the problem of older adults becoming addicted to prescription medications. Mixing them with alcohol or homeopathic remedies, the wrong combination of pills, or even taking them at the wrong time, can lead a […]
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for an Associated Press report, which appeared on the Boston Globe website, about the gambling proposals on Tuesday’s ballot. Brewer told the AP some voters might be weary of seeing casino proposals in election after election but the geographic scope of the proposals and their potential impact on […]
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Maine Public Broadcasting Network radio has a story about a study of Maine’s garbage being done by George Criner, a professor in UMaine’s School of Economics. Criner told MPBN the aim of the study is to document what is in the household waste stream of 17 Maine communities so that municipalities and state policy-makers can […]
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Steve Trimper, the head coach of the UMaine baseball team, was featured in a Green Outdoors segment on WCSH6 TV. Trimper said in the segment he enjoys hunting and scouting hunting grounds. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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