The Associated Press quoted Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias, in articles about new harvest rules for Maine’s clam industry. Maine is the country’s leading producer of soft-shell clams, but the harvest has fallen in recent years — 2017 and 2018 had the lowest harvest for any […]
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The Conversation published an opinion piece by Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine. The piece is titled “Fox News isn’t the problem, it’s the media’s obsession with Fox News.” The San Francisco Chronicle carried The Conversation piece. The National Interest republished the piece with a different headline: […]
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The County covered a talk about climate change and the last ice age by Aaron Putnam, the George H. Denton Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Putnam spoke at the Geological Society of Maine’s annual spring meeting on April 5 at the University of Maine at Presque Isle […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported José Eduardo Meireles, assistant professor of plant evolution and systematics at the University of Maine and director of UMaine’s herbarium, will give the keynote address at a symposium hosted by the New England Wild Flower Society. The symposium, “Native Plant Conservation in the 21st Century,” will be held 10 a.m.–5 […]
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VillageSoup reported Sonja Birthisel, a postdoctoral research associate in the University of Maine School of Forest Resources, will give a talk about how climate change is affecting Maine farms at noon April 16 at Merryspring Nature Center in Camden. Birthisel will draw on interviews she is conducting with farmers and crop advisers as part of […]
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The Associated Press reported Chuck Peddle, a pioneer in the world of personal computers and a University of Maine alumnus, visited campus on April 5 to deliver the keynote address at a moderated panel titled “Disruptive Innovation.” Peddle graduated from UMaine in 1959 with a degree in engineering physics and is recognized for his work […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) interviewed senior nursing students from the University of Maine who have been collecting children’s pajamas and money for the past month to donate to Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. The students — Caroline Bush, Brooke Hammond, Lauren Martin and Jordan Richards — came up with […]
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The Associated Press covered this year’s Canadian/U.S. Lobstermen’s Town Meeting April 5 and 6 in Portland. The University of Maine Lobster Institute hosted this year’s event, which had a theme of “Two Nations, Two Fisheries: Shared Challenges, Shared Opportunities” and attracted lobstermen, dealers, processors, scientists and others from both countries, according to the article. News […]
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Vox spoke with Amy Blackstone, a professor of sociology at the University of Maine, and cited her research in the article “The Biden allegations are a reminder of the small invasions women deal with every day.” Blackstone, who has studied the effects of harassment, said, “If you’re spending time and energy and emotion working to […]
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J. Michael Weber, dean of the Graduate School of Business in the Maine Business School at the University of Maine, was featured in the “Ask the Experts” section of the WalletHub study “2019’s Best Airline Credit Cards & Miles Credit Cards.” Weber gave advice on how often someone needs to fly to justify getting an […]
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