UMaine News

A Thursday Bangor Daily News story provides details about Wednesday’s Greater Bangor Chamber of Commerce meeting about biomedical research collaborations in the region.  The story includes comments from UMaine President Bob Kennedy, who was one of three featured speakers at the event.

John Cutcliffe of the UMaine nursing faculty is one of the investigators involved in a research study of suicidal young men in Northern Ireland. A news release from Ireland’s Public Health Agency describes the project, intended to “increase the understanding of suicidal young men, and inform the delivery of accessible, acceptable and appropriate mental health […]

Comments from Prof. Dan Harrison of the UMaine wildlife ecology faculty were included in a Tuesday WABI television report about reports of cougars showing up in the Maine woods. “In terms of a viable population of cougars, I’m very, very skeptical about that,” he said.

A recent meeting at UMaine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole about Maine’s oyster industry was the subject of an article in Fenceviewer.com. Oyster growers and state officials discussed an oyster disease that, while not lethal to humans, could affect the oyster market.

Prof. Dan Harrison of the UMaine wildlife ecology faculty is featured in a WABI television story about issues related to wolves in the Maine woods.  The report was the first in a two-part series scheduled to conclude on Tuesday evening’s news.

Comments from Gordon Hamilton, a professor in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, are included in a front-page Sunday New York Times story detailing scientific research related to changes in Greenland’s glaciers.  The story says that Hamilton and others are working “to answer one of the most urgent – and most widely debated – questions facing humanity: […]

The website Horsetalk.co.nz highlighted a story about UMaine’s work to develop new and inexpensive field test kits that would detect certain bacteria in animals, including the bacteria that causes equine strangles. Robert Causey, a veterinarian and associate professor in the university’s Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, is driving the research.

The website allaboutfeed.net, which is based in the Netherlands, mentioned UMaine’s plan to build a high-level containment cold-water lab in which fish pathogens can be studied in order to develop vaccines and medicines for fighting diseases. UMaine received a $600,000 grant from the Maine Technology Institute for the new lab.

UMaine Prof. Irv Kornfield is featured in a WABI television story about his work helping the Maine Warden Service investigate illegal hunting cases.  Working in UMaine’s Wildlife Forensic DNA lab, Kornfield assesses evidence and matches animal DNA in ways that help law enforcement officials investigate and prosecute these crimes.