UMaine in the News

Down East quotes Kraus in article on bluefin tuna skeleton

Down East magazine published an article about a bluefin tuna skeleton on display at the University of Maine at Machias. Gayle Kraus, a professor of marine ecology at UMM, assembled the skeleton with students in her skeletal articulation course, according to the article. “We used hot glue because we were just learning,” she said, “and […]

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Media report on Black Bear pitchers being selected in MLB draft

The Bangor Daily News and Portland Press Herald reported University of Maine baseball players Cody Laweryson and Nick Silva were chosen by Major League Baseball squads June 5 during the First-Year Player Draft. The Minnesota Twins picked Laweryson, a right-handed pitcher from Moscow, Maine, and the Chicago White Sox selected Silva, a right-handed pitcher from […]

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Outdoor leadership program being offered at Bryant Pond, Daily Bulldog reports

Daily Bulldog reported the University of Maine Early College program is offering a new outdoor leadership pathway program for western Maine high school students to earn UMaine college credit tuition-free. The outdoor leadership program at UMaine’s 4-H Camp and Learning Center at Bryant Pond focuses on developing an individual’s leadership skills while providing intensive training […]

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Free Press advances NOAA scientist’s DMC talk on shellfish filtration

The Free Press reported Darien Mizuta, a postdoctoral research associate at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Laboratory, will speak June 12 at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole. The 6 p.m. presentation, “In situ feeding performance for shellfish culture,” will describe how shellfish filtration is affected by local environmental factors such […]

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Washington Post cites UMaine research in article on washing produce

The Washington Post cited University of Maine research in an article about washing produce. Researchers in UMaine’s Food Science and Human Nutrition program tested three commercial wash treatments and found that distilled water was just as effective or more effective at removing microbes and pesticides from produce, according to the article, which noted clean, cold […]

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Fatherly speaks with Milardo for article on being a good uncle

Robert Milardo, University of Maine emeritus professor of family relations, was interviewed for a Fatherly article about how to be a good uncle. Expectations for uncles vary wildly by family and culture, the article states. Milardo interviewed hundreds of uncles, aunts, nieces and nephews for his 2009 study and book “The Forgotten Kin: Aunts and […]

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Climate Reanalyzer cited in article by The Buffalo News

The Buffalo News cited the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in the article “It’s a lock: A warm, sunny, dry weekend is heading our way.” In addition to discussing the upcoming weather for the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area, the article reported the Arctic Ocean will continue this month to experience record warm temperatures […]

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Seacoast Online previews climate change lecture by Gill

Seacoast Online previewed a lecture by Jacquelyn Gill, an assistant professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the University of Maine, titled “Of Mice and Mammoths: Ice Age Perspectives on Climate Change, Extinction, and Resilience.” Gill’s lecture will be at 6 p.m. in the Mather Auditorium at the Wells Reserve, and is part of the […]

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WABI covers prison art exhibit at Hutchinson Center

WABI (Channel 5) covered an art exhibit at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center’s H. Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery that features works created by inmates at the Maine State Prison in Warren. The show, titled “From Behind the Wall 2.0,” is on display in Belfast through Aug. 30, WABI reported. More information is […]

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