Vivian Wu, a professor of microbiology and food safety in the School of Food and Agriculture, was interviewed by Food Safety Magazine about her latest research on food-borne pathogens. Wu’s project recently received a $150,000 research grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop a magnetic […]
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Janet Fairman, an associate research professor of education at the University of Maine, and Craig Mason, a professor with Maine Education Policy Research Institute and the Center for Research and Evaluation at UMaine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Maine schools can do more to engage parents effectively to help students […]
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Dick Young, auxiliary operations director at the University of Maine’s Cutler Health Center, spoke with WABI (Channel 5) for a report about preparing for the possibility of measles on campus. Young said UMaine officials are closely monitoring the measles outbreak in California and would follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines if there […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported University of Maine women’s basketball player Liz Wood and track and field athlete Wilson Adams received the school’s 2015 “M” Club Dean Smith Award during an academic ceremony Monday night. The award is presented annually to the top male and female student-athletes with outstanding academic and athletic achievement along with […]
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The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release about the university hosting its first full and half marathon this summer as part of the Black Bear Race series. The inaugural Black Bear Marathon and Half Marathon will take place June 21. Campus Recreation also is offering marathon training for runners who are interested […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that Abigail Bennett, a first-year economics major at the University of Maine, is running for vice chairwoman of the Maine Republican Party. Bennett is the daughter of Chairman Rick Bennett. The Republican State Committee will choose officers Saturday, Feb. 14 in Augusta, the article states.
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George Markowsky, a mathematician and computer science professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Scientific American article about how astronomers have discovered variable stars that periodically dim and brighten at frequencies close to the golden ratio. The golden ration is the irrational number 0.61803398875, known as the Greek letter phi, according to […]
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Double Blue Sports Analytics, a University of Maine Target Technology Incubator company, was featured in The Boston Globe article, “Technology gives goalies edge in advancements.” The startup’s hockey goaltending analytics app was mentioned in the article as being used with GoPro cameras and iPads to help goalies at Tufts. Dan Kerluke, a former associate head […]
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Robert Dana, the University of Maine’s vice president for student life and dean of students, and Barbara Smith, who runs UMaine’s commuter and nontraditional student program, spoke with the Portland Press Herald about beneficial student services for an article about increased tuition on college campuses. Smith said although services such as the commuter lounge, costs […]
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Boothbay Register published a University of Maine news release about University of Maine researcher Ivona Cetinić being one of four Maine scientists featured in The Oceanography Society’s “Women in Oceanography: The Next Decade,” a supplement to the December issue of “Oceanography” magazine. The report reviews progress in career advancement for female oceanographers over the last […]
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