The Bangor Daily News carried an article advancing this week’s open houses and public tours of the University of Maine’s Aquaculture Research Institute facilities in Walpole, Franklin and Orono. Visitors can expect a showcase of research activities and tours of the facilities at each site starting at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 23 and Friday, […]
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A 1991 University of Maine School of Economics study on the popularity of brook trout fishing in Maine’s fresh waters was cited in a Portland Press Herald article on threats to the species from the illegal practice of stocking invasive non-native invasive fish into ponds and lakes. The UMaine research showed that nearly 90 percent […]
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University of Maine assistant professor of economics Sharon Wagner was one of a dozen AmeriCorps alumni to be recognized for their service to their communities and to leadership during a “Champion of Change” ceremony at the White House last week, according to an article in the Bangor Daily News. Wagner served as an AmeriCorps National […]
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The National Geographic website has posted a series of blogs by UMaine marine scientist Rhian Waller, who is on an expedition in the fjords around Chile to study deep-sea corals. Waller received earlier this year a $30,064 National Geographic grant to establish three long-term monitoring sites in Chile where she will monitor and take samples […]
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In a Portland Press Herald interview, Portland-based singer-songwriter and UMaine graduate Sara Hallie Richardson credited her experimentation with electronic music to an independent study program arranged with help from UMaine music professor Beth Wiemann, who is the chair of the School of Performing Arts’ Division of Music. Richardson will perform a CD release concert with […]
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Mainebiz reported on a decision by the Maine Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee to not investigate operational practices by Casella Waste Systems, Inc., which manages the Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town. A subsidiary of Casella has filed a petition with state regulators to build a methane gas pipeline from the landfill to the University of […]
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Channel 2 (WLBZ) interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension veterinarian Anne Lichtenwalner and UMaine Extension pest management specialist Jim Dill for a report about West Nile Virus (WNV) and Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), which are spread by mosquitoes. Lichtenwalner, director of the UMaine Animal Health Laboratory, discussed ways to protect horses from EEE. Dill said […]
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University of Maine new media professors Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais were interviewed as part of a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report on their family’s move to an ultra-efficient, solar-powered home in the Belfast Co-Housing and Eco-Village Project. Ippolito and Blais said the village incorporates the philosophy of the back-to-the-land movement with a sense of […]
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Habib Dagher, director of the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center and an authority on wind power and offshore power generation, was a recent call-in guest on the Falmouth-based TideSmart Talk with Stevoe program, which airs Saturdays at 11 a.m. on WLOB (1310 AM) in Portland. Dagher discussed the diversity of work and innovation at […]
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The Scientific American has published an article from the journal Nature that includes comments by University of Maine anthropologist Dan Sandweiss about mummification in northern Chile and southern Peru 7,000 years ago. Sandweiss, who also is dean and assistant provost of UMaine graduate studies, said a lack of current evidence makes it difficult to prove […]
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