Contact: Margaret Nagle (207) 581-3745 Contrary to popular perception, forest biomass is not waste. In today’s growing bioenergy industry, forest biomass is better described as “energy wood.” Usually energy wood includes the tops, limbs and stems of poor form or size removed during harvest. But if market conditions are right, a growing energy wood market […]
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Contact: Margaret Nagle (207) 581-3745 When the oceanic phenomenon El Niño strikes every four to seven years, it wreaks havoc on the world’s weather patterns, fishing and agriculture. University of Maine anthropologist Dan Sandweiss wants to know how ancient civilizations coped with these blows to their way of life. For the past five years, Sandweiss […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — More than 1,800 new first year students will join the University of Maine community on Friday Aug. 27 during the traditional Maine Hello move-in event. Part of Fall Welcome Weekend, the award-winning Maine Hello features more than 800 volunteers — faculty and staff members, students and alumni […]
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In an article about a bread conference in Skowhegan, the New York Times mentioned a UMaine-University of Vermont partner program that finds the best grain in New England.
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The 100-foot meteorological tower that UMaine leased to a Portland-area environmental group in order to gather data about wind resources on Peaks Island, was erected Aug. 24, the Island Institute reports. UMaine researchers will analyze the data logged at the site.
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In eastern Maine, landings of soft-shell clams have been in steady decline for nearly three decades. Despite the $12.25 million clam harvest in Maine in 2007, the fishery is but a shadow of its former self when compared to highs in the past century. Particularly hard-hit is Washington County, once the state’s largest source of […]
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Mary Ellen Camire of the UMaine food science and human nutrition faculty is the lead resource in an MSNBC online story about the value of certain dietary supplements, including vitamins A,B,C and D.
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In a USA Today story about Bangor’s fairly stable housing market, UMaine’s James McConnon discusses the city’s lower unemployment rate compared to the rest of the state.
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UMaine’s Summer Tour 2010, UMaine’s largest-ever student recruitment open house, drew an estimated 1,600 people to campus on Monday. VP for Student Affairs Robert Dana was interviewed for stories on three television stations, including WLBZ, WABI and WVII.
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Comments from Marilynne Mann, interim director of UMaine’s Center for Tourism Research and Outreach (CenTRO) are included in a Tuesday Bangor Daily News report about economic factors associated with the American Folk Festival on the Bangor Waterfront. Mann says that CenTRO research indicates a $10 million regional economic impact associated with the 2008 event and […]
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