On Aug. 12, The Story Collider will feature Skylar Bayer’s frank but sometimes funny podcast about a medical scare she experienced her first semester at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center. In fall 2011, the doctoral candidate in marine biology was diagnosed with ventricular tachycardia — a rapid heart beat due to a problem […]
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Josh Stoll, an ecology and environmental sciences Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on “Blue Fish Radio,” an Outdoor Canada podcast about the future of fish and fishing in Canada. Stoll, founder of LocalCatch.org and the Walking Fish Cooperative, spoke about the importance of community-supported fishing and how new fishing […]
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Jennifer Crittenden, assistant director of the University of Maine Center on Aging, and Lisa Scofield, a graduate intern at the center, wrote an article for the Bangor Daily News titled, “If you’re taking care of your grandkid, you’re not alone. Here are 8 resources to help.” Grandfamilies — families where a grandparent has stepped in […]
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Research being conducted by Joel Tebbenkamp, a University of Maine Ph.D. student in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, was featured in the Bangor Daily News article, “Why are spruce grouse declining in the Northeast? Study aims to find out why,” by Bob Duchesne, vice president of Maine Audubon’s Penobscot Valley Chapter. The […]
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SSPP Blog, the weekly blog of the journal Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, cited a paper by David Hart, director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine. Hart’s article, “Mobilizing the power of higher education to tackle the grand challenge of sustainability: Lessons from novel initiatives,” was […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported that while Maine’s largest fishery brings in more than $500 million a year and employs tens of thousands of people, there is no map that shows where lobstermen trap their catch. This lack of data can be harmful for regulatory agencies responsible for permitting nonfishing activities in the Gulf of […]
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The Sun Journal published the opinion piece, “What is the ‘typical’ addict like?” by University of Maine student Thomas Elie. Elie, who lives in Lewiston, is a second-year student working to achieve his master of social work degree.
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Read transcript University of Maine researchers, including Kit Hamley, explore how extinct and introduced animals affect the Falkland Islands and seek to help farmers, sheep, tussock grass, tourists and penguins coexist in light of competing interests, sea-level rise and erosion. Hamley helped develop the 4-H Follow A ResearcherTM program at UMaine, which connects K–12 students […]
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Medical Xpress published a University of Maine profile on Chantel Banus, a second-year master’s student in human nutrition. Banus, of Ashby, Massachusetts, is working to determine the factors that influence consumer purchase of seaweed products in the United States. She is conducting a survey to see what consumers are looking for in seaweed products and […]
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Chantel Banus, second-year master’s student in human nutrition at the University of Maine, is working to determine the factors that influence consumer purchase of seaweed products in the United States. Banus is conducting a survey to see what consumers are looking for in seaweed products and what influences their decision to purchase them. She wants […]
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