Monday’s Boston Globe includes a story about “bridge-in-a-backpack” technology created at UMaine. The story features comments from Prof. Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, along with Brit Svoboda, chief executive of Advanced Infrastructure Technologies. His company licenced the technology from UMaine to develop it for commercial applications.
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a report about Friday’s UMaine forum, “The Promise and Problem of Transparency.” The session, which featured an address by Cary Coglianese of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, was part of UMaine’s William S. Cohen Papers Forum series. It was sponsored by UMaine’s Fogler Library (home of the Cohen papers), […]
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Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty provided comment for a Maine Sunday Telegram story about the impact and relevance of political parties in Maine politics. The story is based in part on post-election comments from Eliot Cutler, the independent candidate who lost Maine’s gubernatorial election by about one percent of the vote.
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Comments from Tori Jackson of UMaine Cooperative Extension were included in a Sunday Lewiston Sun Journal story about Thanksgiving alternatives to turkey. She provided some historical context about how turkey came to be associated with the holiday meal.
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Sarah Nelson, a researcher in UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, was interviewed last week for a segment on WERU radio’s “Talk of the Town” program. Along with representatives of Old Town High School and the Schoodic Education Research Center Institute, she discussed a collaborate project in mercury ecosystem science.
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Comments from Gordon Hamilton, a professor in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, are included in a front-page Sunday New York Times story detailing scientific research related to changes in Greenland’s glaciers. The story says that Hamilton and others are working “to answer one of the most urgent – and most widely debated – questions facing humanity: […]
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The website Horsetalk.co.nz highlighted a story about UMaine’s work to develop new and inexpensive field test kits that would detect certain bacteria in animals, including the bacteria that causes equine strangles. Robert Causey, a veterinarian and associate professor in the university’s Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, is driving the research.
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Members of UMaine’s Army ROTC program were photographed at a Veteran’s Day event Thursday in Portland.
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Portland-based WGME has a report on UMaine research into the extraction of a starter molecule of antiflu drug Tamiflu. Chemistry professors Ray Fort and Barbara Cole were interviewed for the report. Canada-based Digital Journal also ran a story about the findings.
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The website allaboutfeed.net, which is based in the Netherlands, mentioned UMaine’s plan to build a high-level containment cold-water lab in which fish pathogens can be studied in order to develop vaccines and medicines for fighting diseases. UMaine received a $600,000 grant from the Maine Technology Institute for the new lab.
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