Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine recently was named one of just 18 colleges and universities listed in The Princeton Review’s “Green Honor Roll.” Recognizing schools for their commitment to sustainability, the Green Honor Roll lists those institutions that received the highest possible score on The Princeton Review green […]
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Several UMaine researchers will take part in a conference about the rise and fall of Maine’s sardine industry, according to Village Soup. Pauleena MacDougall of the UMaine-based Maine Folklife Center, and Bill Kuykendall of UMaine’s New Media Center will participate in the Oct. 22-23 conference.
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The website FreshPlaza.com has a report quoting UMaine Cooperative Extension Fruit Specialist Renae Moran about the apple harvest in Maine. Moran said the harvest is down because of an early spring frost.
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Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, commented in a Thursday WABI television story about the installation of a new bridge in Hermon. The structure uses “bridge in a backpack” technology developed under Dagher’s direction at the UMaine center. UMaine spinoff company Advanced Infrastructure Technologies is working with a local construction […]
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UMaine research into the presence of nanodiamonds in Greenland was mentioned in a story in The Daily Nexus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. UMaine scientists Paul Mayewski and Andrei Kurbatov of the Climate Change Institute helped provide expertise related to the flow dynamics along the edge of the Greenland ice sheet and the […]
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Research being done by Mary Davis, and adjunct faculty member in UMaine’s School of Economics, was cited in a Portland Press Herald story about the safety risks of fishing. Davis has found that about 40 percent of the boats in Maine’s inshore fishing fleet are out of compliance with safety regulations, and 16 percent of […]
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The Huffington Post has a blog entry about research done by UMaine’s Andrew Pershing into the idea that whales can effectively sequester carbon, therefore removing it from the atmosphere. Pershing estimates that restoring whale populations could remove up to 160,000 tons of carbon annually.
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An online weight management program recently started at UMaine was mentioned in a newspaper story. Faculty in the food science and human nutrition department began offering the program for the first time this fall
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Contacts listed in text ORONO – September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, and as the school lunch and other child nutrition programs are set to expire Sept. 30, nutrition and fitness advocates are encouraging Congress to act swiftly to pass child nutrition bill for the President to sign. University of Maine exercise physiologists and […]
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Contact: Diane Genthner, 581-1744 ORONO — The University Bookstore at the University of Maine is joining with the American Library Association in its observance of “Banned Books Week” Sept. 25-Oct. 2 and encouraging public participation by reading a controversial book. Thousands of libraries and bookstores across the country plan to celebrate the freedom to read […]
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