Earth, Life, and Health Sciences

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On your marks, get set, innovate! Food science students create unique to-go desserts

Alongside a lot of flour and sugar, cooking skills, food science knowledge, ingenuity and market acumen were the key ingredients for a fall course at the University of Maine in which students created innovative grab-and-go desserts.  The graduate-level Food Product Development, taught by professor Denise Skonberg, required students to undergo several rounds of ideation, production […]

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Eos features Saros on changes in Greenland lakes

Eos featured University of Maine Climate Change Institute Associate Director Jasmine Saros to discuss a recent study she led which found that after two months of record heat and precipitation in fall 2022, an estimated 7,500 lakes in Greenland turned brown, began emitting carbon and decreased in water quality “You can actually see more heat […]

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Rubin discusses new tariffs on energy with News Center

News Center Maine spoke Jonathan Rubin, director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, about new tariffs on energy imports from Canada and Mexico. “It’s really hard to know what this means in the long term, because we don’t really know how long these tariffs are going to last. As you may recall, they were […]

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NYT interviews Runge on zooplankton

In an article titled “Rising Temperatures Are Scrambling the Base of the Ocean Food Web,”  Jeffrey Runge, a zooplankton ecologist who recently retired as a professor from the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, spoke with The New York Times about Calanus finmarchicus, a type of zooplankton. You can think of Calanus as “little […]

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WABI highlights ANEW program for UMaine nursing students

WABI (Channel 5 in Bangor) highlighted the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce program through the University of Maine School of Nursing. The program helps fund the education of family nurse practitioners and is aimed at addressing gaps in rural healthcare.

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New Hampshire Public Radio interviews Mech on browntail moths

New Hampshire Public Radio interviewed Angela Mech, assistant professor of forest entomology at the University of Maine, on browntail moths. “It’s a very short window. Once the outbreak ends, there isn’t going to be enough browntail to really research for another 10 to 15 years. So we’re trying to cram in as many research projects […]

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News Center Maine features research on ticks and invasive plant species

News Center Maine covered research from the University of Maine a new study to determine if controlling unwelcome forest plants also reduces densities of ticks, and how landowners can best apply and share that information. “They tend to grow these very dense thickets. They kind of grow out of control. That’s what invasives do.” said […]

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ABC 8 interviews Mech on spruce budworms

WMTW (ABC 8 in Portland) interviewed Angela Mech, assistant professor of forest entomology at the University of Maine, on what could happen to Maine forests if there is an outbreak of the spruce budworm. “Spruce Budworm is actually a native insect. It’s normally here all the time, but in very low densities, we can’t normally […]

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