UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Kate Yerxa and UMaine Professor Mary Ellen Camire were interviewed for a WLBZ-TV report on packing healthy and safe lunches for kids going back to school. Yerxa, the statewide educator for nutrition and physical activity, advised parents to allow children to have some say into what goes into their lunch box, which […]
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The blue jerseys worn by the UMaine hockey team were included in a list of the top 50 non-NHL hockey jerseys of all time on the website Bleacher Report. The Black Bears’ jerseys are a favorite among college hockey fans, the website noted. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Fall Fiesta at the Museum of Art, a celebration to benefit the museum’s education and exhibition programs, is scheduled for Saturday Oct. 1 from 5-8 p.m. at the museum on Harlow St. in Bangor. The event will feature a complimentary wine bar and beer tasing, hors d’oeuvres, live music, art-making stations and more. Tickets, available […]
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UMaine Cooperative Extension professor and ornamental horticulture specialist Lois Berg Stack was interviewed for a Monday Channel 7 (WVII) news report about the toxic ornamental plant giant hogweed, a 10-foot-tall plant resembling Queen Anne’s lace, which can cause permanent scarring from burns when the plant’s sap on skin is exposed to sunlight. Contact: George Manlove, […]
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An Associated Press story that includes details of how UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center will utilize a $3 million federal grant. In the story, which ran in Forbes magazine’s website Habib Dagher, director of the center, is quoted as saying the funding will be used for a lab station, or “cell,” where prototype […]
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UMaine labor historian and research associate Charlie Scontras was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald report about Labor Day events in Portland. Scontras attended a breakfast Monday morning, where he noted that Maine enacted its Labor Day in 1891, three years before it was made a national holiday. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Carol Kim, a UMaine immunologist, was mentioned in a Central Maine Morning Sentinel story about research into the effects of arsenic on the immune system and cystic fibrosis. Kim is part of an $11 million grant to Dartmouth Medical School, $1.8 million of which is a National Institutes of Health grant to UMaine to explore […]
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The website Nursing Times analyzed the announcement last week that researchers, including UMaine’s Malcolm Shick, have determined that corals produce compounds that protect them from the sun, and that some day a pill for human consumption could be developed to protect skin from getting sunburned. The website found that despite the potential of the compounds, […]
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Contact: Mary Jane Perry, (207) 592-0317 Using the latest in optical sensor technology, marine scientists from the University of Maine and the University of Washington have achieved unprecedented documentation of a critical phenomenon that occurs during the spring phytoplankton blooms in the North Atlantic that feeds the deep ocean and contributes to carbon dioxide sequestering.
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The Aiken (South Carolina) Standard reports that UMaine engineering professor Mick Peterson visited the Aiken Training Track, a thoroughbred training facility, in June to assess the track and surface. Peterson is an expert in race track surfaces, using ground penetrating radar and other high-tech assessment equipment.
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