News Center Maine quoted Ali Abedi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and president and CTO of Activas Diagnostics, a University of Maine spinoff company, in a report on a study the company is conducting. Abedi and others at Activas Diagnostics have developed a device called SleepMove, which is a fitted mattress sheet equipped […]
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WABI (Channel 5) mentioned the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab as a useful resource in a report on Lyme disease awareness. If people want a tick identified or tested for diseases, they can send it to the lab, which has “a wealth of easily accessible information and resources about Lyme disease and other […]
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WVII (Channel 7) covered a memorial on the University of Maine campus for two soldiers who were killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb on May 6, 2006. Staff Sgt. Dale Kelly Jr. and Staff Sgt. David Veverka, a UMaine senior, were members of the Brewer-based 172nd Infantry Regiment, also known as the “Mountain Battalion.” […]
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Jon Bomar, a doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Confronting the graduate student mental health crisis.” Bomar is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the country to address public challenges […]
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The New York Times quoted Jaclyn Robidoux, a marine Extension associate with Maine Sea Grant at the University of Maine, in the article “The climate-friendly vegetable you ought to eat.” Kelp is nutritionally dense and actively benefits ocean health by mitigating excess carbon dioxide and nitrogen, and can provide income to small fisheries threatened by […]
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News Center Maine reported Bridget Ziegelaar, operations manager for NASA’s International Space Station Research Integration Office and Old Town native, will give the address at both the morning and afternoon ceremonies for the University of Maine’s 217th commencement May 11 in the Alfond Sports Arena. Ziegelaar received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from UMaine […]
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WABI (Channel 5) quoted Adrianna Del Amo, coordinator for fitness and aquatics at the University of Maine’s New Balance Student Recreation Center, in a report on the summer lifeguard shortage. From now through summer, there’s a local lifeguard shortage due in part to college students leaving campus and going home for the break. “We’re always […]
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The Republican Journal previewed an interactive simulation of World Climate Negotiations to be held 5–8 p.m. May 9 at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. UMaine Climate Change Institute graduate students Anna McGinn and Will Kochtitzky; and Molly Schauffler, a faculty member with the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Hutchinson Center; […]
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The Mount Desert Islander advanced a talk by Darren Ranco, Penobscot Nation citizen, associate professor of anthropology and chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, at 4:10 p.m. May 16 in McCormick Lecture Hall at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor. As part of the Seminar in Climate Change 2019 Speaker […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, Maine Public, WABI (Channel 5), Mainebiz, Maine Startups Insider, Biofuels Digest and The Oak Ridger reported the University of Maine and Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced a research collaboration to help the forest products industry. The federally funded, $20 million manufacturing partnership will involve 3D printing using bioplastics made with wood fiber. “The material […]
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