UMaine mechanical engineering professor Mick Peterson is quoted in a Los Angeles Times report and several other stories about a Thursday California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) ruling. The group decided against the Oak Tree Racing Association’s proposal to use the Santa Anita race track in Arcadia, Cal. for fall facing. CHRB engaged Peterson to assess […]
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Prof. Jon Ippollito of the UMaine New Media faculty is quoted in a technology report on an Australian news Web site about his 12-year-old son’s Legohacker blog. The blog details the young man’s work with LEGO kits, building original creations from parts shipped in a kit for making a specific object. His latest efforts involve […]
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Bob Bayer and Cathy Billings from the UMaine Lobster Institute will appear on the Sunday Aug. 22 edition of “Back to Business,” hosted by Deb Neumann. During the program, which airs from 2-3 p.m. on 103.9 FM (Bangor), 101.3 FM (Augusta) and 96.7 FM (Portsmouth), Bayer, Billings and other guests will talk about the state […]
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Rick Kersbergen of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty is the lead source for a Bangor Daily News story looking at the impact of the summer’s dry weather on Maine’s August hay crop. Kersbegen, who estimates that 30 to 40 percent of Maine is experiencing drought, notes that corn and other “shallow-rooted” crops are also feeling […]
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Comments from Prof. Gayle Zydlewski of the UMaine School of Marine Science are included in a Wednesday Maine Public Radio story reporting on advances in technology developed by Manie-based Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC). Zydlewski is part of the team working with ORPC to assess the impact of the company’s underwater power turbine on the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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” […]
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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.
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