UMaine aquatic physicist Emmanuel Boss was quoted in a story on the website Miller-McCune about the use of robotic devices that are helping a researcher in California keep track of how tiny organisms and object travel in sub-surface ocean currents. Boss said if the devices work at a reasonable price, they could revolutionize oceanography. Contact: […]
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The website Western Farm Press has a story about the finding by UMaine Cooperative Extension experts of a destructive non-native fruit fly in Maine that could decimate the state’s berry crop. Jim Dill, Extension educator and pest management specialist, and Frank Drummond, an Extension blueberry researcher, were both quoted in the story. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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Click here to see all Climate Change blog entries. Editor’s note: A team of scientists from the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute is currently on an expedition in Chilé, traveling to the Tupungatito Glacier, located in a volcanic crater at an elevation of 19,000 feet in the Andes Mountains. This blog post is the […]
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Former professor and chair of the University of Maine Department of Physics Paul R. Camp died Jan. 9 at the Maine Veterans Home. He was 92. Camp taught and conducted research at UMaine from 1967 until 1996. A 1941 Wesleyan University graduate, the Connecticut native joined scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialists Anne Lichtenwalner and Lois Berg Stack appeared in a Channel 2 (WLBZ) news report Tuesday on some of the effects of the lack of snow this winter. Stack, an ornamental horticulturist, said the lack of snow exposes plant roots to freezing without a protective blanket of snow on the […]
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UMaine social work student Casey Faulkingham of Houlton spent the spring semester of her junior year working at a group home for adolescents and teens in Antwerp, Belgium. The following semester, Antwerp native Aiko Van Landeghem, a student of “social education care work” at a campus-free college in the city, arrived at UMaine for a field […]
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Biofuel research being done by UMaine engineers and researchers was noted in a story in the Bangor Daily News about the Old Town Fuel & Fiber mill in Old Town. The story, which focused on pollution issues at the facility, said UMaine, which is in the forefront of research on how to distill fuels from […]
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The website PR Web has a news release about UMaine’s use of palm vein scanner biometric software for student check-in at on-campus dining halls. According to the news release, the technology is expected to save thousands of dollars per by year by eliminating shared cards, a practice that has students share their meal plans at […]
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UMaine Cooperative Extension professor and water and soil quality specialist John Jemison was interviewed for a WCHS-TV report from the 71st Maine Agricultural Show about the future of farming. Jemison, who presented findings of a study done to determine where Maine farmers see their industry headed, said high energy costs and a lack of infrastructure […]
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The three finalists for the University of Maine System chancellor position will begin to make campus visits on Jan. 17, with the three finalists visiting UMaine Jan. 18-20.
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