Contact: Ivan J. Fernandez, (207) 581-2932 or ivanjf@maine.edu The University of Maine’s ongoing research at the Bear Brook Watershed has received another funding boost from the National Science Foundation to study nitrogen cycling in the watershed. UMaine has received $370,646 for the first year of funding from a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to […]
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Contact: Jessica Bloch at 207-581-3777 Several upcoming lectures and events at UMaine were noted in a series of briefs in the Bangor Daily News, including the 2011 Life Cycle Assessment Event, a daylong event on April 15 during which the public can meet with UMaine students and faculty about sustainability and the environment. Also noted […]
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UMaine Professor Irv Kornfield was interviewed for a story on AOL News about a lamb, born on a farm in China, that happens to resemble a dog. The birth has given rise to rumors that the lamb is the result of the mating of a sheep and dog. Kornfield, who is also the director of […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 or joe.carr@umit.maine.edu ORONO — Renowned microbiologist Stanley Falkow, Stanford University School of Medicine’s Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor of Cancer Research, will visit the University of Maine for a series of activities the week of April 18, 2011. The highlight will be a Thursday April 21 public […]
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Alfred Bushway, food sciences professor at UMaine and authority on fiddlehead ferns, is quoted in the April 2011 edition of Martha Stewart Living magazine about whether one of Maine’s iconic wild-grown delicacies contains a toxin that can make people sick. Bushway told the magazine that he’s seen no evidence of toxins in fiddleheads.
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Several UMaine nursing students visited Thursday’s health fair at Brewer High School, which was covered by the Bangor Daily News. Bangor’s WLBZ television interviewed nursing student Erin Iandoli for its story. Iandoli said in the interview a group of UMaine senior nursing students had put together a website with information about sexually transmitted diseases, contraception, […]
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The Working Waterfront website has a story about right whales in the Gulf of Maine that mentioned the work of UMaine biological oceanographer Andrew Pershing. The article focuses on the winter habits of right whales, which Pershing has studied in relation to the presence of tiny shrimp-like zooplankton upon which the whales feed.
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An article in the April 2011 edition of Portland Monthly magazine about the economic outlook for the coming cruise ship season cites research by UMaine economists Todd Gabe of the School of Economics and Jim McConnon, a Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics, that estimated typical spending ranges by visiting cruise line passengers.
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Contact: Judith Round, 581-5104 The 10th annual Geddes W. Simpson Lecture, with a special program in honor of the tenth year of the series, is scheduled for Monday, April 4 in the McIntire Room of the Buchanan Alumni House. The program will begin at 2 p.m. with a lecture by Elizabeth S. Bast, granddaughter of […]
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Contact: Nancy Fishwick, 581-2607 Members of the UMaine School of Nursing’s Family Nurse Practitioner Class of 2011 will hear from several of last year’s graduates on Thursday, March 31 about transitioning from registered nurse family nurse practitioner, and the credentialing requirements ahead. Two of the eight graduate students who received degrees and national certification last […]
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