UMaine in the News

Republican Journal advances project management program at UMaine Hutchinson Center

The Republican Journal reported the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast will offer a three-day certificate program in project management. Participants from a variety of organizations involved in project management will benefit from the training, including nonprofit businesses, construction utilities, insurance and banking organizations, the article states. Program sessions will be held 8:30 a.m. […]

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BDN cites Bouchard, economic impact report in 2019 aquaculture news recap

The Bangor Daily News cited the 2017 Maine Aquaculture Economic Impact Report from the University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute in the article “For the Maine coast, 2019 was the year of the fish.” According to the report, aquaculture is now among the fastest-growing food production sector in the world, and the economic impact of […]

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Lincoln County News reports on Semester by the Sea presentations

The Lincoln County News reported on end-of-semester presentations by students in the University of Maine’s Semester by the Sea program at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Five groups of undergraduate students in an estuarine oceanography course explored why the Damariscotta River is known for the quality, size and quantity of its oysters. Each group […]

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Maine magazine highlights Composites Center’s innovation 

Maine magazine detailed how a research and development team at the University of Maine printed the largest 3D object in the world. “It started as a glob of bioplastic. At the end of 72 hours, it was a 25-foot-long patrol boat weighing 5,000 pounds,” began the feature about how the University of Maine Advanced Structures […]

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Speaking in Maine airs Mayewski’s ‘Arctic Climate Change and Maine’ talk

Maine Public’s Speaking in Maine is sharing Paul Mayewski’s address titled “Arctic Climate Change and Maine” in December to the Mid-Coast Forum on Foreign Relations in in Camden. Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, recently led National Geographic and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mount Everest. The world-renowned climate scientist […]

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Dill talks with Press Herald about increase in tick-borne illnesses

Griffin Dill talked with the Portland Press Herald about the increase of tick-borne illnesses in Maine last year. Anaplasmosis diagnoses reached a record high in 2019, with at least 685 confirmed cases of the tick-borne illness, while the number of Lyme disease cases also were up. “Ticks were abundant and highly active in 2019,” said […]

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Atlas Obscura mentions 2006 UMaine tree study 

Atlas Obscura mentioned a 2006 University of Maine study in its story, “The Canadian Arctic Once Probably Looked a Lot Like Present-Day Florida.” Ellesmere Island, just north of Greenland, has musk oxen, hares, brown grasses and shrubs. But about 56 million to 34 million years ago, the landscape was totally different, according to the article. […]

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Bangor Daily News interviews Coffin about chickens

Donna Coffin was a source for the Bangor Daily News for its story discouraging people from keeping chickens as house pets because they harbor bacteria harmful to humans, including salmonella and Campylobacter which can be fatal in extreme cases. At the very least, both can cause a great deal of digestive and intestinal discomfort, including […]

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