The Bangor Daily News reported on a five year, $3.3 million grant awarded to UMaine in order to increase the number of female faculty in the STEM and social-behavioral science fields. The grant will create the Rising Tide Center, which will seek to define the practices that attract and support the retention of female faculty, […]
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The midcoast newspaper Village Soup has an article about a lecture series a Aarhus Gallery in Belfast that will include a reading of the works of UMaine professor emerita Elaine Ford. A creative writing and literature professor, Ford is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories, “The American Wife,” for which […]
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The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered issued a news release relative to wetlands issues on the University of Maine campus. UMaine has provided the following response to that news release: Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 University of Maine officials expressed appreciation today for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approach to helping the university manage […]
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Mary Ellin Logue, a faculty member and researcher in the College of Education and Human Development, provided perspectives on questions about the significance of rough play by boys for a recent MSNBC article on the topic. Logue also was featured in an extensive Radio Health Journal program interview on the same subject. The program was […]
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UMaine oceanographer Andrew Pershing is quoted in a National Public Radio story about the benefits of whales in the oceans. Pershing says research into whales’ role in moving nutrients from one part of the ocean to another is still unknown, but recent research into how whale excrement affects fish populations could get scientists to think […]
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The University of Maine Museum of Art was one of 14 Maine museums that participated in a survey about the connection between the state’s economy and its museums, according to a Portland Press Herald story. The survey, which was commissioned by the Maine Arts Commission, found 442,000 people visited the 14 museums in 2009 and […]
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UMaine engineer Mick Peterson was mentioned in an article on the website Bloodhorse about the replacement of the surface of the thoroughbred horse racing track at Santa Anita Park in California. Peterson, the executive director of the Racing Surfaces Laboratory, will test the track’s new surface.
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The blog EdibleGeography.com interviewed Paul Mayewski, the director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, about ice cores. Mayewski was questioned about a variety of issues, including the search process for sites at which to drill for ice cores, the logistics of getting the cores back to the lab, and even whether or not scientists drink the […]
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Comments from Amy Fried of the UMaine political science faculty were included in a Monday Bangor Daily News story about polling related to the Maine 1st District Congressional race between incumbent Chellie Pingree and GOP challenger Dean Scontras.
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Contact: Jasmine Saros at (207) 581-2112 Melting glaciers in the American West are releasing chemicals that cause ecosystem changes in alpine lakes, including large quantities of nitrogen that reduces biodiversity, according to an international research team led by University of Maine paleoecologist Jasmine Saros. The study, funded by a $509,000 grant from the National Science […]
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