ValueWalk, Mainebiz and WLBZ (Channel 2) reported on a wireless leak detection system created by University of Maine researchers that is scheduled to board a SpaceX rocket bound for the International Space Station this summer. The prototype, which was tested in the university’s inflatable lunar habitat and Wireless Sensing Laboratory (WiSe-Net Lab), could lead to […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported Catherine Schmitt, communications director for Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine, will release her newly published book, “Historic Acadia National Park,” at a launch party May 18. The event will take place at 5:30 p.m. at the Northeast Harbor Library in collaboration with the library and the […]
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald article on Central Maine Meats, the first new USDA-inspected meat processing and packing facility to open in Maine in years. The owner of the Gardiner business said he knew enough about the local food movement to know that there was a need […]
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DigitalCommons@UMaine offers online conference hosting to members of the university community. The platform allows organizers to manage workflows, recruit submissions, embed multimedia features, accept registrations, and publish proceedings in an open-access forum that is search engine optimized and expands the scholarly impact of a conference to a global scale. An example of online conference hosting […]
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Something’s brewing at the University of Maine. Two professors in the School of Food and Agriculture at the University of Maine have been teaching about the science of brewing, and have been conducting research related to brewing. For the past three years, Jason Bolton and Brian Perkins have taught a course they developed — FSN […]
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Research from the University of Maine was cited in The Alternative Daily article, “The truth about organic and non-organic fruits and veggies.” A study conducted by UMaine’s Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition found distilled water is equal or better than three different commercial fruit and vegetable washes, according to the article. Using water […]
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The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release about the 24th annual Harold W. Borns Jr. Symposium to be held April 14–15 in Stodder Hall. UMaine graduate students and faculty will make more than 60 presentations about emerging climate change research on topics from lobsters to deer ticks. The symposium namesake, Professor Emeritus […]
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Carol Kim, University of Maine’s vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School, has named economics professor Jonathan Rubin the director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. The Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center is a nonpartisan, independent research and public service unit of UMaine. Rubin has been a member of the center’s […]
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Todd Gabe, an economics professor at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a CityLab article written by Richard Florida, co-founder and editor at large of CityLab and a senior editor at The Atlantic. Florida wrote the article based on his analysis of the geography of this year’s Republican primaries, which he conducted with a […]
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The Sun Journal quoted research and personnel from the University of Maine in an article on Maine’s warming weather and its effect on insects and the diseases they carry. Between 1895 and 2014, Maine warmed 3 degrees, according to “Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update,” a report produced by UMaine’s Climate Change Institute (CCI) and Maine […]
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