Adrienne Kearney, a UMaine macroeconomist who studies international finance, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News story about how the financial crisis in Europe could affect Maine businesses. Kearney told the BDN a slowdown in consumer spending in Europe would affect Asia, which exports much of its goods to that region, where China and Malaysia […]
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The University of Maine J.F. Witter Teaching and Research Center’s dairy operation has received the top quality producer award for Agri-Mark Region 14 for 2011.
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Wednesday’s unseasonably warm temperature prompted a report in the Lewiston Sun Journal that included an interview with Sean Birkel, a post-doctoral research associate at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute. Birkel said one spell of above- or below-normal weather is not necessarily a symptom of climate change, but historical temperatures show Maine is warming, especially the winters. […]
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University of Maine Research Professor Laurie Connell will lead a team of researchers investigating methods that would provide early warning detection of toxic Alexandrium blooms, also known as red tides, in the Gulf of Maine.
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The Bangor Daily News carried information from a UMaine news release about a group of students from the university’s School of Nursing raising funds for a public health mission over spring break with underprivileged families in Belize. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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UMaine’s physical oceanography research was in a Bangor Daily News follow-up story to the news of continued funding for the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems, known as NERACOOS. The UMaine Physical Oceanography Group, headed up by UMaine Professor Neal Pettigrew, will receive some of the $1.7 million grant from the federal National […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a feature story about UMaine’s standardbred program, which teaches students the ins and outs of how to train and handle a breed of horse trained for harness racing. UMaine student Amy Bologna was interviewed for the article and student Amy Hofmann was featured in a series of photographs. The story […]
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The work of W. Franklin Dove, a biologist who studied animal production while at UMaine in the early 20th century, was mentioned in a blog on the Scientific American website. Dove spent years of his career removing and implanting immature horn buds in the skulls of animals such as goats and cows to show that […]
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The Boston Globe website included an Associated Press story about $1.7 million in funding for the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems, known as NERACOOS, which includes UMaine’s Physical Oceanography Group and UMaine Professor Neal Pettigrew. The Bangor Daily News also ran the AP story, which mentioned the funding will enable researchers to […]
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Twelve University of Maine nursing students, a recent nursing graduate, and a faculty adviser are raising money for a Spring Break public health, service-learning mission with underprivileged families in and around the city of Belize in Central America.
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