Earth, Life, and Health Sciences

Rosen Appointed to ABIM Board

The American Board of Internal Medicine announced in a news release that Clifford Rosen, a UMaine graduate and professor of nutrition who serves as director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Research at Maine Medical Center Research Institute, has been appointed to ABIM endocrinology subspecialty board. Rosen is also a faculty member of the […]

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Sea Lice Research Featured

The Bangor Daily News reported on groundbreaking research being done by UMaine’s School of Marine Sciences that shows mussels eat the larvae of sea lice, which is a parasite that has infested salmon farms in Maine waters. UMaine Professor Ian Bricknell told the BDN the research could prove beneficial to not only farmed salmon and […]

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Researcher Comments On Wind Power

Linda Ilse, a research assistant professor of wildlife ecology at UMaine, appeared in a Bangor Daily News photograph that went with a Tuesday morning story about a wind turbine project in the Katahdin area. Ilse told the newspaper she supports wind power, but she is concerned about the impacts on the landscape and on wildlife. […]

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Bird Biologist Comments In Story

Comments from Rebecca Holberton, a UMaine associate professor of biology, were included in a Central Maine Morning Sentinel story about the BioDiversity Research Institute, a Maine-based center known for its research on environmental threats to birds and other wildlife. Holberton, who leads the Northeast Regional Migration Monitoring Network and collaborates with BRI, commented on the […]

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Newspaper story on sea lamprey research

Saturday’s Bangor Daily News featured a story about UMaine research involving Prof. Steve Coghlan, a freshwater fisheries ecology expert, graduate student Rob Hogg and their colleagues.  Based at a site on Brewer’s Sedgeunkedunk Stream, the researchers are studying sea lamprey and their impact on stream ecosystems.

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Front-page story features UMaine bee research

A Saturday front-page Bangor Daily News story described a Washington County-based UMaine bmblebee research project headed up by Prof. Frank Drummond.  The project aims to help rebuild bee populations that have suffered recent declines.  Researchers are studying the bees and working to develop pesticide protocols that will not harm them.

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Rice comments in Old Town mill story

Prof. Robert Rice of the UMaine School of Forest Resources provided comment for a Saturday Bangor Daily News story looking at current operations at the Old Town Fuel and Fiber Mill.  The story points out that the mill is processing pulp at historically high levels, while also extracting byproducts and testing them in a biorefinery.

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Wind power opinion column in Sunday Telegram

The June 26 Maine Sunday Telegram includes an opinion column, “Offshore wind has role in Maine’s future,” written by UMaine School of Economics Prof. Mario Teisl, in collaboration with his faculty colleagues Caroline Noblet, Shannon McCoy and Gary Hunt.

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Food Scientist Interviewed for Snacking Article

A reporter for the online health magazine WebMD interviewed Mary Ellen Camire, professor of food science and human nutrition at UMaine, for an article in today’s edition about whether snacking is healthy. Camire says one person’s snack could be the same as a meal for another, depending on the snack. Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756

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