WVII (Channel 7) reported 19 students from Hirosaki University in Japan who are at the University of Maine as part of a three-week program visited Brewer Community School to shadow seventh graders. The students from Japan, who are mostly education majors, are staying with host families and taking classes at UMaine to improve their English […]
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The Bangor Daily News quoted Caitlin Howell, an assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at the University of Maine, in the article “Your doctor’s office may soon be less germy because of a Maine paper mill.” As the traditional paper business of Sappi North America continues to shrink, the company is expanding its production […]
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Food in Canada magazine reported on wild blueberry research led by Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, a professor of clinical nutrition at the University of Maine, and Panagiotis Tsakiroglou, a Ph.D student at UMaine. Wild blueberries are rich in compounds including anthocyanins and phenolic acids, which have beneficial effects on chronic diseases. The research team found that when […]
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Judith Rosenbaum, an assistant professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show’s topic was the rise of shaming as a social phenomenon and how it often results in people being condemned, using police departments’ public sharing of the information of […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported two University of Maine graduate students, Brittany Goetting and Darcy Stevens, have been selected as 2019 Visiting History Scholars by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Goetting and Stevens will help the society prepare for the bicentennial of Maine’s statehood by researching and writing articles for the 2020 issue of the […]
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Morning Ag Clips reported registration is open for the Maine Grass Farmers Network (MGFN) Annual Conference 8:30 a.m.–3 p.m. March 23 at Kennebec County Community College in Hinckley. University of Maine Cooperative Extension partners with the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and other producers to host the conference. Livestock producers are invited to learn […]
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Phys.org published a University of Maine news release about a recently discovered connection between an influenza virus surface protein and a host cell lipid that could lead to new antiviral therapies. The research team was led by Samuel Hess, a professor of physics at UMaine, and was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
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Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors interviewed several faculty members and students from the University of Maine for an article about Maine’s history of coastal research. There are roughly 200 marine stations in the world today, according to Kevin Ecklebarger, professor emeritus of marine biology at UMaine. “An explosion of new marine labs occurred in the […]
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The Forecaster interviewed Frank Wertheim, an Extension educator in agriculture and horticulture with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for an article about the Universities Fighting World Hunger Summit. The summit will be held in Maine for the first time March 14–16 at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, and is co-sponsored by the USM […]
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WVII (Channel 7) spoke with Ken Ralph, director of athletics at the University of Maine, about the university’s sports “facilities master plan.” One of Ralph’s goals is to have every sport playing on campus. He said UMaine is exploring different renovation and building plans for all its facilities and sports teams, and that the space […]
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