UMaine News

The website www.renewableenergyworld.com reports on the successes of a UMaine project in Cobscook Bay near Eastport, Maine. Ocean Renewable Power Company, which has partnered with UMaine on the project, announced Aug. 18 that its Beta Power System, the largest ocean energy “power plant” ever installed in U.S. waters, has successfully generated grid-compatible power from tidal […]

Contact: Margaret Nagle at (207) 581-3745 The Dalai Lama holds that compassion — concern for the well-being of others — leads to happiness. Now a new study has found that compassion may also have health benefits in the form of stress reduction for women. The study involving 59 women found that those who demonstrated high […]

Maine Public Radio broadcast a Tuesday news story about Weight Management 101, a for-credit UMaine course that starts this fall.  The UMaine course is based on a University of Vermont program called VTrim.  The story includes comments from Doug Matthews, the UMaine Ph.D. student who will teach the course.

Contact: Margaret Nagle at (207) 581-3745 The six-state New England region has more than 33 million acres of forestland — a greater wooded cover than has existed in the region in almost two centuries. But recent years have witnessed a reversal of this trend in all the states with a new wave of “hard deforestation” […]

A report on research led by UMaine biochemist Julie Gosse appears on the Physorg.com science news website.  This project involves examining the impact of arsenic on mast cells, which help regulate the human immune system.

Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News reports on the upcoming leadership transition in UMaine’s athletics department.  Athletic Director Blake James will leave on Sept. 7, having accepted a senior associate athletic director’s job at the University of Miami.  President Kennedy is working toward appointing an interim AD, and a national search for James’ replacement will get underway […]

UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Kate McCarthy will present a Preserving the Harvest workshop on Aug. 25 in Farmington.  Wednesday’s Lewiston Sun Journal includes a brief preview story with registration information.

The Republican Journal reports the Bridge in a Backpack technology developed by UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center will be deployed at a bridge site near the intersection of Herrick Road and Perkins Road in Belfast, Maine. The bridge will be the third in Maine built using the technology.

Steven Barkan, a UMaine sociology professor, discusses with the Bangor Daily News his work with an open-source publisher to keep down the costs of his next textbook. Textbook costs have gone up faster than inflation, he says in the article. Richard Young, manager of the UMaine Bookstore, comments in the story on textbook rental programs.

Contact: Julie Gosse, (207) 581-4833 ORONO — In continuing research on the effects of arsenic on mast cells, which help regulate the body’s immune system and organ function, University of Maine biochemist Julie Gosse and a team of student researchers have found a new correlation. Using biochemical, molecular and cellular techniques, Gosse and her students […]