The Bangor Daily News interviewed Clay Kirby, an insect diagnostician with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for an article on a beneficial household arthropod, the centipede. While centipedes can be creepy and startling to some, Kirby insists they are harmless and are actually predators of other pests that could live in your home, including […]
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MedicalXpress carried a University of Maine news release about a study by UMaine researchers on visual acuity and cognitive functioning. The study found that lower visual acuity is linked with lower cognitive function and decline in cognitive functioning over a period of five years, according to the release. Contrary to their hypothesis, the researchers found […]
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The Ellsworth American interviewed David Yarborough, a wild blueberry specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for a report on the production and value of blueberries. Both production and value of the crop declined in 2017 — the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported a drop in production of 33 percent and a drop in […]
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The Bangor Daily News cited a University of Maine Cooperative Extension fact sheet in the article, “10 monsters that dwell in Maine’s waterways.” The article presented different freshwater creatures living in Maine that people might be unfamiliar with, including the fishing spider. The largest spider native to Maine, it hunts by walking over land and […]
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The American Prospect quoted Amy Fried, a professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Maine, in an article on Senator Susan Collins and her potential actions related to President Donald Trump’s nomination for the next Supreme Court Justice. Sen. Collins has suggested she will not focus on “ideological litmus […]
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SimpleMost quoted Robert Bayer, the executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, in an article on facts about lobsters. The article listed some less well-known facts about the crustaceans, including that they are a good source of several vitamins and minerals and that the Maine lobster industry began as early as […]
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David Yarborough, a wild blueberry specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and a professor in the UMaine School of Food and Agriculture, was interviewed for a Portland Press Herald article on the drop in price of wild blueberries, which is at its lowest in more than 30 years. The article cited UMaine data […]
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The Portland Press Herald quoted Stefano Tijerina, a professor of political science at the University of Maine, and Howard Cody, a professor emeritus of political science at UMaine, in an article about the effects of Canadian tariffs on Maine exports. The tariffs, a response to tariffs placed on Canadian steel and aluminum by the Trump […]
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WABI reported news of a $500,000 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services award, given to a University of Maine spin-off company for research on memory loss in older adults, that was announced by Senators Susan Collins and Angus King. The funding will support a home-based sleep monitoring invention developed by UMaine researchers that has […]
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WVII (Channel 7) interviewed Carol Kim, a professor of microbiology at the University of Maine, about her research on the immune response to the influenza virus using zebrafish. A team of UMaine researchers received a grant for more than $400,000 from the National Institutes of Health for the research. The team’s goal is to develop […]
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