UMaine News

Maine Public Radio broadcast a Monday story featuring Prof. Robert Steneck of the UMaine School of Marine Sciences discussing his new research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  Working with a series of international collaborators, Steneck is calling for dramatic changes, based on a Chilean model, in the ways in which […]

Contact: Aaron Putnam (207) 581-2166 An international science journal this week published a paper, authored by a UMaine Ph.D. candidate, which claims to resolve a long-standing debate about the end of the last ice age in New Zealand. Aaron Putnam, a glacial geologist in UMaine’s Department of Earth Sciences and Climate Change Institute, was the […]

The Bangor Daily News “College Fair Preview” insert features a profile of UMaine senior nursing student Casey Levasseur and senior finance major Brian Landry (page 6).  The supplement, part of Wednesday’s newspaper, provides a number of articles related to colleges and universities around Maine.  Levasseur, of Millinocket and Landry, of Yorktown, Va., are part of […]

Contact: Jeff Benjamin, 581-2727; Jessica Leahy, (207) 581-2834 ORONO — The University of Maine School of Forest Resources has received a U.S. Department of Agriculture research grant to take a close look at the northeast region’s logging industry and examine its infrastructure, capacity, workforce and issues that affect its economic health and future. The research […]

An online weight management program recently started at UMaine was mentioned in a newspaper story. Faculty in the food science and human nutrition department began offering the program for the first time this fall

UMaine biological oceanographer Andrew Pershing presented earlier this year his concept of carbon credits for whale conservation, according to Nature Magazine. Pershing says whales are like trees because they store a lot of carbon. Just as planting trees removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, allowing whale population to rebound following the era of factory whaling […]

In eastern Maine, landings of soft-shell clams have been in steady decline for nearly three decades. Despite the $12.25 million clam harvest in Maine in 2007, the fishery is but a shadow of its former self when compared to highs in the past century. Particularly hard-hit is Washington County, once the state’s largest source of […]

Mary Ellen Camire of the UMaine food science and human nutrition faculty is the lead resource in an MSNBC online story about the value of certain dietary supplements, including vitamins A,B,C and D.

Research into the effects of arsenic on mast cells, which help regulate the body’s immune system, being done by UMaine biochemist Julie Gosse and a team of student researchers, was the subject of a U.S. News and World Report story.