The Maine Edge spoke with comedian Bill Engvall ahead of his Feb. 24 stand-up routine at the Collins Center for the Arts. “It’s always fun to do shows there in Maine,” Engvall said. “The people there definitely love to laugh and the crowds are always good. And honestly, I feel like I have a lot […]
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Joseph Kelley, a University of Maine professor of marine geology, spoke with the Associated Press for an article about how salt marshes are disappearing due to rising sea levels. The U.S. Geological Survey recently conducted an assessment of eight of the country’s coastal salt marshes, according to the article. It found that half of the […]
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Ian Bricknell, professor of aquaculture at the University of Maine’s Aquaculture Research Institute, spoke with the BBC about the damage sea lice are causing to the salmon farming industry. In Scotland, where salmon farms have the highest incidence of infection in the world, sea lice are the likely cause of a drop off in the […]
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Professionals with the Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine were cited in a Down East magazine post featuring facts about Maine oysters. According to Dana Morse, an aquaculture specialist, there are 75 oyster farmers in the state, and the number has been on the rise for years. It takes about 18 […]
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The Washington Post reported temperatures in the Arctic are 20 degrees warmer than average for this time of year, according to the Climate Reanalyzer website run by the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. The Sydney Morning Herald also cited the Climate Reanalyzer website in a story on record-setting summer temperatures in the […]
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The Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel published a column by Maine outdoors writer George Smith, titled “Composites Center among the amazing things happening at University of Maine.” “The Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine in Orono is an amazing place, working with 500 clients all over the world, and winners of […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the University of Maine women’s basketball team’s annual Play4Kay breast cancer awareness game Feb. 12. The team wore pink jerseys in the game against Stony Brook, which they won 78–71. Play 4Kay is named after Kay Yow, a longtime North Carolina State women’s coach who died of breast cancer in […]
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Lynne Holland, a community education assistant with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, will lead a March 9 talk in Freeport on pesticide-free methods of combating the browntail moth, The Forecaster reported. The insects damage trees and can cause rashes and “severe reactions” in some who touch the caterpillar’s fur, according to the article. Holland’s talk […]
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Basic Income European Network (BIEN) published the opinion piece, “Conservative carbon dividend proposal is a welcome development for introduction of partial basic income,” by Michael Howard, a philosophy professor at the University of Maine.
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Mainebiz reported Habib Dagher, executive director of the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, has been named one of 2016’s Top 25 Newsmakers by Engineering-News Record (ENR). The award will be formally presented in April in New York City. At that time, ENR also will announce which one of the Top 25 Newsmakers […]
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