Comments from UMaine Prof. Rebecca Holberton, leader of the Gulf of Maine’s Northeast Regional Migration Monitoring Network, were included in a Maine Public Radio report about a new report documenting the migratory patterns of certain bird species off the Maine coast. Holberton notes that the study is important to helping scientists identify the species that […]
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A newly published article in the national Fish Farming News aquaculture newspaper about the MSX oyster disease outbreak in the Damariscotta River that threatens Maine’s million-dollar oyster industry included an interview with Debbie Bouchard, UMaine researcher and manager of the Maine Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory. Bouchard says that while this parasitic disease isn’t new to […]
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UMaine’s growing number out-of-state students was mentioned in a Connecticut Post story about the intersection of admission standards and high rates of accepted out-of-state students at the University of Connecticut. UMaine’s out-of-state student body is growing, according to the article, with about 17 percent of the student body coming from outside Maine.
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Sargentville author Jessica Kerwin Jenkins told the Bangor Daily News she used UMaine’s Fogler Library to research her book “The Encyclopedia of the Exquisite.” According to the story, Jenkins’ book is about more than 100 wondrous, delightful individuals, objects and ideas that make life a little more fantastic.
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Comments from Prof. Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, were included in a Saturday Maine Today Media story about the federal government spending bill defeated in the U.S. Senate last week. The bill included a $10 million appropriation for ongoing UMaine-led R&D efforts in deepwater offshore wind power technology.
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The Waterville Morning Sentinel has a profile of Waterville native and UMaine music major Judy Pancoast, who was nominated for a Grammy award for a children’s album she wrote. Pancoast’s CD “Weird Things Are Everywhere” is nominated in the category of Best Musical Album for Children and is up against previous Grammy winners Pete Seeger […]
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Comments from Brian Robinson of the UMaine anthropology story are included in a Monday Boston Globe story about research looking at the impact of climate change on prehistoric New England-area culture. New data are available to scientists, allowing them to build on a 2005 report looking carefully at a 1,300 “mini ice age” reflecting significant […]
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Lois Berg Stack of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty comments in a Maine Today Media story about the notion that poinsettias are poisonous to ingest. While she doesn’t advise eating them, Stack agrees with other experts who call reports of the plant’s toxicity “a myth.”
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A Science Now online news story describes a new measurement technique developed by scientists using seismometers to monitor icequakes, seismic activity caused by calving and other physical changes in glaciers. Gordon Hamilton of the UMaine Climate Change Institute comments in the story, which describes the data collection method and its potential impact on climate and […]
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Habib Dagher, the director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was quoted extensively in an article in the Thibodaux Daily Comet of Lafourche Parish, La., about the potential for offshore wind in the Gulf of Mexico. Dagher said there is a heightened level of interest on the part of the Obama administration in moving […]
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