Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News includes a front-page story looking at a variety of economic issues related to deepwater offshore wind power. UMaine Prof. Habib Dagher, who is leading efforts to develop that technology through the DeepCWind Consortium, is a primary source for the story, which also references comments from Dean Dana Humphrey of the UMaine […]
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Several news outlets were on hand last week in Rockport Harbor for the launch of a lobster habitat mooring, which is a project involving the UMaine-based Lobster Institute and UMaine’s School of Aquaculture. A story on the Village Soup website, which covers midcoast Maine, mentioned UMaine’s involvement, including the work that graduate student Chris Roy […]
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UMaine glaciologist Gordon Hamilton was quoted in a story on the Scientific American website about the links between climate change and social collapse of Greenland since 800 B.C. Hamilton commented on more recent ice melt, telling the magazine that the area of the Arctic around Greenland has warmed significantly since the 1990s, and the way […]
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Mary Cathcart of UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center was interviewed Friday morning on local Cumulus Radio News about the Maine NEW Leadership program, which begins on June 2. The program seeks to increase the number of young women who participate and engage in politics. More information about the program can be found in a […]
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The Portland Press Herald ran an Associated Press story about Mike DeVito, a former UMaine football player now on the roster of the New York Jets who has been using his extra time during the NFL’s lockout to strengthen his faith as he plans to become a youth minister or pastor after he is finished […]
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A Bangor High School student whose father is on the UMaine engineering faculty has been named the Maine state winner of the U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize, according to a Bangor Daily News story. Leila Musavi is the daughter of Mohamad Musavi, the former chair of UMaine’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department who will take […]
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The UMaine baseball team, which won the America East championship last week and will play host North Carolina in an NCAA regional tournament game, was mentioned in a Bleacher Report capsule look at the lineup for the regional. The website said the Black Bears have a balanced offensive attack, solid pitching, and enough talent to […]
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Comments from Prof. Mary Ellen Camire of the UMaine Dept. of Food Science and Human Nutrition were included in a Saturday Los Angeles Times story about HMB, a dietary supplement said to help middle-aged people build muscle. Camire says the best solution for those looking to improve muscle strength is a balanced diet combined with […]
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Prof. Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, was interviewed for the May 28 edition of WZON-FM’s “Maine Green Advantage” program. Mayewski and host David Neally engaged in a lengthy discussion about climate change, its impact on the environment and UMaine’s research in that discipline.
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A Friday Maine Public Radio story detailed efforts at UMaine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research in Franklin to develop viable sea urchin aquaculture techniques. Nick Brown and Steve Eddy from the center are heading up the project and they were interviewed for the story.
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