News Center Maine featured potato variety testing at the University of Maine’s Agricultural Research and Development Farm in Presque Isle. The process starts at the UMaine campus in Orono, where potato plants are cross-pollinated in greenhouses, which results in thousands of true potato seeds. After that, researchers and students use those seeds to grow 50,000 […]
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Phys.org shared that a University of Maine-led team of researchers developed a new type of model for predicting whether any given kind of microplastic would adsorb any specific type of PFAS and at what concentration.
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The National Fisherman reported on a national survey about direct marketing practices among U.S. seafood harvesters, developed by the University of Maine, Agricultural Marketing Services of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and National Marine Fisheries Service.
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In an article about a record-breaking heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, Axios used data from the University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer to create a map of forecast temperature departures from average during Monday through Wednesday May 17 in degrees Fahrenheit. The Climate Reanalyzer was developed by Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor […]
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New information is emerging on how climate change is impacting American lobster populations and their connections to other species in the marine food web in the earliest stages of their life cycle. New research conducted by two graduate students at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) has revealed more information about how these […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Angela Mech, assistant professor of forest entomology at the University of Maine, about this year’s browntail moth outbreak. “We haven’t had this big of a browntail moth outbreak in 100 years. There are still so many questions we don’t know the answers to,” Mech said. The PPH noted that this […]
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The Bangor Daily News noted that the Maine Department of Transportation may use GBeams, which were developed by Advanced Infrastructure Technologies in cooperation with the University of Maine, to repair the Llewellyn G. Estes Memorial Bridge.
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The Bangor Daily News and Phys.org reported on a study co-authored by Esther Enright, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine, that shows writing helps elementary school students better engage with civics.
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The University of Maine Institute of Medicine has awarded summer fellowships to nine graduate students to support their research in health science and biomedicine. The fellowships, which include up to $6,000 for a stipend, one graduate credit and health insurance, will allow graduate students to conduct their research full time during the summer months alongside […]
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University of Maine junior Katelyn Amero of Mapleton, Maine has been named a 2023 Goldwater Scholar. Amero, a double major in biochemistry and microbiology, and a member of the Honors College, is one of 413 college students nationwide who were named Goldwater Scholars for the 2023–24 academic year, according to the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and […]
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