Sandra Butler, a UMaine professor of social work, was one of four Mainers invited by the national Eldercare Workforce Alliance to meet earlier this week with the state’s congressional delegation in Washington, D.C., to urge funding for programs that support Americans with dementia and their caregivers, according to a Bangor Daily News story.
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Bangor Daily News columnist Joni Averill writes about Sunday’s UMaine Counseling Center-sponsored Out of the Darkness Community Walk, an annual suicide and depression awareness walk which benefits the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The event begins with registration at 1 p.m. followed by the 5K walk at 2 p.m. starting on the mall in front […]
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The website Physorg.com notes research being done by UMaine oceanographer Andrew Pershing into the role played by herring and other small pelagic fish in the Gulf of Maine, including the nutrients they supply to larger animals like tuna and whales and their effect on zooplankton. Pershing and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute are running […]
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Please Contact: Roberta Laverty, AEWC, (207) 581-2110 Mylan Bannon, AIT, (207) 735-7399 BELFAST – The Perkins Bridge in Belfast is going high tech. The 28’ bridge has been carrying motorists across the Little River since 1921. But, wear and tear on the deteriorating bridge has forced the state to consider a more durable option to […]
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Wednesday’s Portland Press Herald includes a story about research by UMaine chemistry professors Barbara Cole and Ray Fort, along with graduate student Gedivinne Nelmini and other collaborators. They have found ways to extract shikimic acid from pine needles. That acid is a primary ingredient in the flu medicine Tamiflu. It’s rare and most of the […]
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Comments from UMaine economist Todd Gabe are included in a Philadelphia Inquirer story based on “Knowledge in Cities,” a report he wrote in collaboration with three other economists. The report lists Philadelphia as a “thinking city.” The study places regions in one of 11 clusters based on the kind of knowledge that drives their workforce.
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The Division of Student Affairs has posted on its webpage a list of dozens of events, activities and special UMaine features in celebration of Family and Friends Weekend, Friday through Sunday, Sept. 24-26. The weekend will be filled with great entertainment, student performances, athletic events, a craft fair and more on campus and off. A […]
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The Bangor Daily News on Sept. 21 carried an article based on a UMaine news release about a $25,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to university School of Forest Resources researchers studying and documenting strengths, weaknesses and challenges facing the Maine logging industry.
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The Bangor Daily News on Sept. 21 carried an article based on a UMaine news release about a $15,000 field trip travel grant received by the Hudson Museum from the Quimby Family Foundation to help area schools defray travel expenses for student field trips to the Hudson Museum and the Collins Center for the Arts.
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Contact: Andrew Pershing, UMaine and GMRI Research Scientist, 207-228-1656; Blaine Grimes, GMRI, 207-228-1655; Ron Lisnet, UMaine, 207-581-3779 The role played by herring and other small pelagic fish in the Gulf of Maine, including the nutrients they supply to larger animals like tuna and whales and their effect on zooplankton, is the focus of a more […]
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