The Associated Press quoted Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, in an an article about Maine Democrats preparing to choose a new leader after election losses. Brewer recalled the state’s gubernatorial race between Republican Gov. Paul LePage, Democrat Mike Michaud and independent Eliot Cutler. He said LePage ran on the […]
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Dan Kerluke, a former associate head coach for the University of Maine hockey team, was a guest on the Grow Maine Show where he spoke about the startup he co-founded to create a hockey goaltending analytics app. Kerluke started Double Blue Sports Analytics with David Alexander, who was a UMaine goalie coach, and Tim Westbaker, […]
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WVII (Channel 7) spoke with Marcella Sorg, a forensic anthropologist for the state and a research professor at the University of Maine, about a Maine effort to gather data on violent deaths over the next five years. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded almost $1 million to help pay for compiling information […]
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The Business Insider article, “It’s warmer in Alaska than in Texas right now,” featured maps produced by the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute. The maps, which were created using CCI’s Climate Reanalyzer, showed average temperatures across North America today and how much those temperatures differ from their overall average levels. According to one of […]
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Jessica Leahy, an associate professor of human dimensions of natural resources at the University of Maine, and Sabrina Vivian, a senior studying ecology and environmental sciences, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “How wood banks could help Mainers avoid an eat-or-heat dilemma.”
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The Portland Press Herald advanced the first workshop in the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s yearlong monthly series, “From Scratch: Your Maine Kitchen.” The first workshop, “From the Maine Wild,” takes place Saturday, Nov. 15, at the UMaine Extension Cumberland County office in Falmouth. At the event, “Black Fly Stew” cookbook author Kate Gooding will […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in two Environment & Energy Publishing articles that focused on ocean energy. The first article mentioned the new wind and wave laboratory being built at UMaine. W² is the world’s first wind and wave lab to feature a rotating open-jet wind tunnel above a 100-foot-long by 30-foot-wide by 15-foot-deep […]
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The University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute was mentioned in a Current article about the increase of Lyme disease and ticks in Maine. According to the article, Dr. Peter Rand, the senior investigator at the Vector-borne Disease Laboratory in Scarborough who established the Maine Lyme Disease Research Lab, is working with CCI to provide data […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Al Jazeera America op-ed, “Democrats lost because of Obama’s policies.” John Batchelor, a novelist and host of a national radio news show in New York City, mentioned Brewer in relation to Maine’s 2nd Congressional District race between Republican Bruce Poliquin, […]
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Windpower Monthly published an article about the platform of VolturnUS, a prototype that’s one-eighth the scale of a full-size offshore wind turbine that was deployed off the coast of Castine in June 2013. VolturnUS was created by the University of Maine-led DeepCwind Consortium. During its deployment, the platform has experienced storm conditions allowing UMaine to […]
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