UMaine in the News

Lowell Sun reports on Flagship Match, cites Provost Hecker

The Lowell Sun of Massachusetts published a State House News Service article titled, “UMaine luring out-of-state students with match program.” In in 2015, the University of Maine launched its Flagship Match scholarship program, offering qualifying out-of-state students the chance to attend the Orono campus for the price they would pay to attend their own state’s […]

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Pond scum health concerns discussed at water conference, Free Press reports

The Free Press reported researchers, technologists, lake volunteers and water quality specialists spoke about the connections between blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, blooms and human health at the 2017 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference. Sponsored by the University of Maine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and the U.S. Geological Survey, the annual water […]

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Dill speaks with BDN about mosquito, tick season predictions

Griffin Dill, an integrated pest management specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was interviewed by Bangor Daily News for the article, “Pest experts predict bad tick, mosquito season for Northeast.” The article states pests may be especially abundant this spring in the Northeast, according to the Bug Barometer, a bi-annual report produced by […]

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Amherst News/Citizen-Record cites UMaine analysis on tidal turbine impacts

Amherst News and the Citizen-Record out of Nova Scotia, Canada, cited a data analysis by the University of Maine in an article on fish monitoring at the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) tidal power site in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. The UMaine analysis found mean relative fish densities were the same after deployment of […]

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Down East magazine cites Morse, Bartlett in aquaculture article

Dana Morse and Chris Bartlett, professionals with the Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine, were quoted in a Down East magazine article on the state’s aquaculture industry. Maine’s traditional fishing culture is on the verge of forced change, the article states, but fishermen have been wary of an aquacultural shift. In […]

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Gardner speaks with Maine Public about European wood chip market

Doug Gardner, a professor of forest operations, bioproducts and bioenergy at the University of Maine, spoke with Maine Public for an article about how the lucrative European wood chip market has the potential to rejuvenate the forest products sector in Maine. Wood chips, which are burned for fuel in biomass energy plants, are in strong […]

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Vachon named women’s basketball interim head coach, media report

The Bangor Daily News, WLBZ (Channel 2), Portland Press Herald, WABI (Channel 5), WVII (Channel 7) and WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) reported Amy Vachon will serve as the interim head coach of the University of Maine women’s basketball team for the 2017–18 season. Head coach Richard Barron, who began an extended medical leave in […]

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Politico quotes Socolow in article on Bill O’Reilly, advertiser boycotts

Michael Socolow, a professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Politico article “Not in defense of Bill O’Reilly.” Since sexual harassment claims have been made against the Fox News Channel host, at least 47 advertisers have dumped their buys on his show, “The O’Reilly Factor,” according to the […]

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