Research

Balunkeswar (Balu) Nayak

Food science majors to engage in active learning to prepare for industry demands

Balunkeswar (Balu) Nayak is leading a charge to strengthen food science majors’ understanding of science and engineering by replacing lecture-centered instruction with active-learning strategies. The University of Maine associate professor of food processing is directing a multi-university project to boost math knowledge and problem-solving skills of food science majors for careers in food processing, food […]

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Sun Journal features Ranasinghe’s virtual cocktail creation

The Sun Journal highlighted Nimesha Ranasinghe in a story that imagines a New Year’s Eve of drinking with no calories or hangover and eating broccoli and tasting chicken wings. Ranasinghe, a University of Maine assistant professor in the School of Computing and Information Science, created a vocktail glass with an electronic module on the rim, […]

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The Politic interviews Wahle about effect of climate change on lobsters

Rick Wahle was a source for a piece in The Politic about the impact of climate change on lobsters in Long Island Sound, where the crustacean population has reached historically low levels, and continues to dip. In 1998, Long Island Sound fisheries hauled in 3.7 million pounds of lobster. In 2015, they yielded 200,000 pounds. […]

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Jackson, Gallandt sources for BDN look at climate change, farming

Tori Jackson and Eric Gallandt were sources, and the Maine Climate and Agriculture Network was referenced, in a multifaceted Bangor Daily News story about climate change as it relates to agriculture. The Maine Climate and Agriculture Network indicates the average length of the growing season in the state is 12–14 days longer than it was […]

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Media post Fastook’s findings about Mercury ice accumulations

Phys.org, an internet news portal that carries science developments, ran a University of Maine media release about glacial deposits on Mercury. James Fastook, a UMaine professor of computer science and a Climate Change Institute researcher, studied the accumulation and flow of ice on Mercury, and how glacial deposits on the smallest planet in the solar […]

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Gill talks with Down East about her favorite place

Jacquelyn Gill recently talked with Down East Magazine about her favorite place — Gorham Mountain in Acadia National Park. The University of Maine paleoecologist first experienced the park as an eighth-grader on a field trip. When she was a student at the College of the Atlantic, the park was a classroom, laboratory, gorgeous recreation area […]

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Beyond Pesticides shares Gardner’s mosquito control findings

Beyond Pesticides published a University of Maine media release about a study that found adding blackberry leaf litter in stormwater catch basins creates an “ecological trap” that entices mosquito females to lay eggs in sites unsuitable for larvae survival. This new “attract-and-kill’ mosquito control tool shows potential for preventing the breeding of mosquitoes that may […]

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