An Associated Press story on several news websites picks up on a Wednesday UMaine news release about UMaine “bridge in a backpack” technology. Representatives of a Russian company and others involved with that country’s transportation infrastructure are visiting UMaine this week to assess the technology and its possible usefulness for infrastructure related to the 2014 […]
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John Cutcliffe of the UMaine nursing faculty is one of the investigators involved in a research study of suicidal young men in Northern Ireland. A news release from Ireland’s Public Health Agency describes the project, intended to “increase the understanding of suicidal young men, and inform the delivery of accessible, acceptable and appropriate mental health […]
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Comments from Prof. Dan Harrison of the UMaine wildlife ecology faculty were included in a Tuesday WABI television report about reports of cougars showing up in the Maine woods. “In terms of a viable population of cougars, I’m very, very skeptical about that,” he said.
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The work of UMaine Climate Change Institute researcher Gordon Hamilton is featured in a Discovery News story detailing Hamilton’s observations relative to changes in Greenland’s glaciers. The Greenland ice sheet is retreating at what Hamilton has called an “alarming” rate. The Discovery story references an extensive Nov. 14 New York Times report about this issue […]
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CompositesWorld.com noted a recent story in the Boston Globe which highlighted UMaine’s bridge-in-a-backpack technology.
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A recent meeting at UMaine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole about Maine’s oyster industry was the subject of an article in Fenceviewer.com. Oyster growers and state officials discussed an oyster disease that, while not lethal to humans, could affect the oyster market.
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UMaine political scientist Amy Fried was quoted in a Maine Media column on downeast.com about the growth of political blogs in Maine. Fried said openly partisan political blogs are a return to the time when newspapers were openly partisan, which many were until the early 20th century.
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Today’s edition of the Bangor Daily News includes a news release about UMaine business and marketing professor Paul Myer and graduate student Kathy Welch embarking on a collaborative market study with merchants in downtown Orono. The object, Myer says, is to consider new ways to capitalize on the synergy between the University of Maine and […]
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Slate columnist Jack Shafer uses research by UMaine journalism professor to counter opinions offered by former ABC journalist Ted Koppel in a Sunday Washington Post column on the current state of television journalism. In that piece, Koppel writes that network news divisions were “loss leader(s) that permitted NBC, CBS and ABC to justify the enormous […]
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President Obama has appointed 1971 UMaine graduate Pamela White ambassador to The Ghana. White is an Auburn native who earned a UMaine journalism degree before embarking on a career in public service that began with work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon. She joined the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1978, serving in […]
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