University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics Jim McConnon was interviewed for a Tuesday news broadcast by Channel 7 (WVII) on a new webinar available for merchants and vendors interested in tips for effective marketing to the thousands of passengers from cruise ships docking in and visiting Maine’s 12 cruise line ports. […]
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Prof. Ann Sossong from the UMaine School of Nursing has received the Maine Organization of Nurse Executives’ Nurse Leadership and Achievement Award. It was presented at the Maine Hospital Association annual luncheon on Thursday, June 23. “The School of Nursing faculty, students, and graduates reap benefits from Ann’s leadership in state initiatives to strengthen the […]
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FIS, the website of the international Fish & Information Services, reported on the findings by UMaine Professor Ian Bricknell and postdoctoral researcher Sally Molloy of the School of Marine Sciences that mussels eat a larval stage of the invasive sea louse, which has affected farmed salmon in Maine and elsewhere. Molloy commented on the research […]
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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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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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Tourism officials in Maine expect more than 270,000 cruise ship passengers will visit Maine harbors this season, spending more than $20 million — or more, depending upon retailers’ marketing approaches.
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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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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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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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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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