Data from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine was included in the Reuters article, “Extreme heat grips Northern Hemisphere on summer solstice.” The CCI recorded temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were 0.44 C (0.8 F) above the norm on Tuesday, June 20, compared with a global average of 0.25 C above usual, […]
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The Bangor Daily News advanced the upcoming season of the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. The 2017–2018 season will include four Broadway touring musicals, five performances of chamber and classical music, two puppet-centric shows, and a performance by 14-year-old jazz piano prodigy Joey Alexander, according to the article. The season […]
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ReNEWS (Renewable Energy News) reported Ocean Renewable Power Company has successfully completed full-scale testing of a specialized, water-lubricated bearing system and associated driveline components designed for underwater systems that capture energy from ocean tides and river currents. The testing was carried out at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center and aimed to […]
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Information from the Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine was included in a Bangor Daily News article about the state’s bean-hole bean tradition. Making bean-hole beans the old-fashioned way — by baking them for hours in cast-iron pots buried in the ground — is a Maine food tradition that is woven into the […]
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Reading Eagle included research from a 2008 University of Maine study in an article about newly proposed federal legislation that would require colleges to track and report hazing incidents. “Hazing in View: College Students at Risk,” conducted by researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden, found that out of 11,000 college students, 55 percent of students […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article about 14-year-old John Bapst High School student Jaelin Roberts and her passion for baking macarons. Two months ago, Jaelin and her her mother Joan launched Simply Macarons by Jaelin, a line of macarons in 14 different flavors. Since the Roberts operate out of […]
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Foster’s Daily Democrat reported Joseph Horne, from Noble High School in North Berwick, Maine, recently won a top prize at the National History Day competition at the University of Maryland. Horne earned the Captain Ken Coskey Naval History Award for his website, “The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard: Helping America Take a Stand Against the Axis Powers.” […]
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Seacoast Online reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Master Gardener Volunteers will offer July workshops at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm. “Container Gardening” will be held 4–6 p.m. Thursday, July 6 and “Yardscaping & Native Plants” will be offered 10 a.m.–noon Sunday, July 16. A $10 fee to help defray the cost of containers, […]
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Jim Dill, a pest management specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was interviewed by the Sun Journal for an article about tick and mosquito season. “It’s a bad year for ticks. There’s a lot of ticks around,” Dill said, adding deer ticks thrive in high humidity, which is what the state has had […]
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New Hampshire Public Radio spoke with Joyce Longcore, a chytrid researcher in the University of Maine’s School of Biology and Ecology, for the report “Will a deadly fungus destroy N.H.’s frog population? The answer is complicated.” Since it was first discovered, the chytrid fungus known as Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis or BD, has been implicated in massive […]
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