Franklin Lewis Roberts, 1934-2012
Franklin Lewis Roberts, who for 33 years taught genetics, biology and evolution at the University of Maine, died on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. Roberts graduated from UMaine with honors in 1955.
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Newspaper Story on Marine Science Graduate Student’s Whale Project
Dan DenDanto, a UMaine doctoral student in the School of Marine Sciences, was featured in a Bangor Daily News story. DenDanto is a carpenter and rearticulator of whale bones, assembling whale skeletons for museums. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
Read moreBeech Study Noted in Washington Post
A study by researcher William Livingston of UMaine’s School of Forest Resources about the effect of warm winters on Maine’s beech trees, was noted in a Washington Post story about mild weather and winter landscapes. Livingston found that a certain beetle species boomed during warm winters between 1999 and 2002 and has feasted on Maine’s […]
Read moreUMaine Mentioned in STEM Education Article
A Bangor Daily News article about an increase in education in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) included a note that the Bangor school district, which is seeking to establish a STEM academy, is working with UMaine on several fronts, including the formation of a program that will allow students to enter […]
Read morePhytoplankton Research Noted in Working Waterfront
The monthly newspaper Working Waterfront included on its website a mention of research conducted by UMaine’s Mary Jane Perry into spring phytoplankton blooms. The blooms are an indication of carbon sequestration in the deep sea, a key process that researchers around the world are incorporating into global climate models. The article was co-written by Catherine […]
Read moreLivingston Beech Research Noted in Sun Journal
A Lewiston Sun Journal article about the prevalence of fungi and insects that are damaging Maine’s beech trees included research from Bill Livingston of UMaine’s School of Forest Resources. Livingston found warmer winter temperatures from 1999 to 2002 allowed populations of an invasive, bark-feeding scale insect to explode, resulting in beech trunks turning white with […]
Read moreInsurance News Website Notes Survey of Older Adults’ Legal Needs
A UMaine news release about a new Center on Aging study that found aging Mainers’ legal needs continue to rise at a time when low-cost or free legal aid is scarce was carried by the website Insurance News. Study authors Len Kaye, the Center on Aging director and a UMaine social work professor, and Jennifer […]
Read moreBayer Quoted in Radio Story on Asia’s Lobster Market
Bob Bayer, the director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, was quoted in a Maine Public Broadcasting Network radio report about the growing market in Asia for lobster, and a business that plans to ship a million pounds of live Maine lobster per year to Asian markets. Bayer said although Maine lobsters taste differently than lobsters most […]
Read moreUMaine Graduate Students Win Awards at Soil Science Meetings
Two papers written by University of Maine graduate students received first-place awards at the recent International Annual Meetings of the Soil Science Society of America in San Antonio, Texas.
Read moreFaculty MEIF Research Awards Announced
The University of Maine Office of the Vice President for Research has announced recipients of faculty research awards by the Maine Economic Improvement Fund to support the use of high-end instrumentation.
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