What role do face masks play in how people are judged during the pandemic? Find out in Episode 6 of Season 3 of “The Maine Question” podcast. There’s an adage that people don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. Mollie Ruben, assistant professor of psychology, examines how face masks affect people’s first […]
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WVII (Channel 7) interviewed Torsten Hahmann, associate professor of spatial informatics, about research that seeks to predict the impact of flooding on specific neighborhoods, roads, municipal service sites and infrastructure. The project, Urban Flooding Open Knowledge Network (UF-OKN), is funded by the National Science Foundation. “So it’s a big project. The vision is really like to […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot, the Mount Desert Islander and the Bangor Daily News cited assistance from University of Maine graduate students and researchers in an article announcing the publication of the Checklist of Maine Spiders by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Conservation’s Maine Forest Service. The story noted that many of the specimens cataloged were contributed by UMaine […]
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University of Maine Assistant Professor of Animal Disease and Diagnostics Pauline Kamath talked with News Center Maine about a three-year collaborative study of moose parasites intended to inform population management practices. UMaine collaborators include Sandra De Urioste-Stone, an associate professor of nature-based tourism, and Anne Lichtenwalner, director of the Cooperative Extension Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
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Two University of Maine professors contributed to a report that explores how governments can help mitigate ecosystem and species loss through their COVID-19 stimulus and recovery plans. While many countries hope to implement regulatory and funding measures to help “return to normal,” the authors of a Rutgers University-led paper, including Michael Howard and Cynthia Isenhour […]
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The National Science Foundation and the magazine Science reported on a study co-authored by Greg Gerbi, an assistant researcher professor of oceanography at the University of Maine, that found that marine invertebrates are responding to climate change by moving into warmer waters, a troubling development for the animals, and the shellfish farms and wild fisheries […]
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AlKhaleej Today and The Free Press shared a media release about research from Dudu Meireles, an assistant professor of plant evolution and systematics at the University of Maine, about how plant reflectance spectra, or the light profile leaves reflect across different wavelengths, can illuminate the evolutionary history of seed plants. Meireles and his colleagues found […]
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The way leaves reflect light can illuminate the evolutionary history of seed plants, according to an international team of scientists led by a University of Maine researcher. Plant reflectance spectra, or the light profile leaves reflect across different wavelengths, capture the change and diversification of seed plants as a result of evolution, according to Dudu […]
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A new Institute of Medicine at the University of Maine will coordinate and support the research and public outreach efforts of some of the state’s leading experts whose research and scholarly work at UMaine advances rural health care, diagnostic medicine, immune system diseases and disorders, and medical humanities. The newly formed institute will serve as […]
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Over the past decade, Maine has seen 2.2% annual growth in aquaculture, which has had an overall economic impact of $140 million annually. Tackling the growing challenges for the sector — from emerging finfish and shellfish diseases to the effects of climate change — is critical. To address these issues facing the industry in Maine […]
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