Contact: Susan Lambrecht Smith, (207) 581- 2017 ORONO — Research by University of Maine Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders Susan Lambrecht Smith is helping to refine speech and language skills of preschoolers as predictors of reading disability. A longitudinal study by Smith and three colleagues — Kathleen Scott and Jenny Roberts of Hofstra […]
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Contact: Pete Elias, (207) 581-2097; George Manlove (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — According to a new study led by University of Maine psychologists and epidemiologists, high blood pressure is indirectly related to lowered physical ability by way of lowered cognition. Professor Pete Elias (Merrill F. Elias) and colleagues have established the relationships using a comprehensive […]
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Contact: Mary Ellen Camire, (207) 581-1627; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — As Maine’s congressional delegation and the Maine Potato Board lobby the USDA to rescind its recent decision to exclude the potato from eligible fruits and vegetables available to WIC program participants, a UMaine food science and human nutrition professor is offering science-based evidence […]
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Contact: Brian Robinson, (207) 581-2174 ORONO – University of UMaine anthropologist Brian Robinson and colleagues are looking at archaeological evidence of Atlantic salmon to better understand the effects of global warming. The researchers found traces of Atlantic salmon from 400, 3,000 and 6,000 years ago, with the earliest periods being warmer than present and relatively […]
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Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine Department of Mathematics and Statistics recently inducted new members into the mathematical honor society Pi Mu Epsilon, and recognized outstanding mathematics graduate students and undergraduate research assistants during its annual Mathematics Award and Recognition ceremony. The department also awarded more than $17,000 in scholarships to […]
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ORONO — Four highly accomplished University of Maine professors, each with long and distinguished records of service to the university and its students, were announced this afternoon as the winners of UMaine’s annual top faculty awards. The awards are part of the annual Academic Honors Convocation, traditionally held the day before commencement. Today’s event was […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 joe.carr@umit.maine.edu ORONO — Amy Smith of Lincolnville, Maine, is the valedictorian of the Class of 2010 at the University of Maine. She will graduate May 8 with a bachelor’s degree in history. Matthew Bouchard of Lewiston, Maine, is the class salutatorian. Smith is a 1988 Camden-Rockport High School graduate […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571, joe.carr@umit.maine.edu ORONO — Emily Yearwood of Skowhegan, Maine, has been named the Outstanding Graduating Student in the University of Maine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She will graduate May 8 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. Yearwood majored in sociology with a minor in psychology. She transferred to […]
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Contact: Samantha Danis, 286-6013, or George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Fourth-year UMaine broadcast journalism major Samantha Danis of Biddeford has been voted as one of five first-place prize winners in the national YouTube and Pulitzer Center “Project: Report” video competition. She has won a $10,000 grant for an international reporting assignment for the Pulitzer Center […]
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Contact: Sanford Phippen, (207) 581-3832 ORONO — The English Department at the University of Maine has received a $5,000 Expansion Arts Grant from the Maine Community Foundation to support the continued publication of the Puckerbrush Review. The Puckerbrush Review is a literary magazine founded in 1978 by the late Constance Hunting who taught creative writing […]
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