The Morning Sentinel, Bangor Daily News, Mainebiz and WVII (Channel 7) reported on the beginning of a federal team’s tour of the state’s forest products industry. U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Matt Erskine and representatives from several federal agencies began the three-day Economic Development Assessment Team visit with a meeting with […]
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Major aging-related challenges in Maine and the state-based research being done to address them will be the focus of a panel discussion open to the public Aug. 22 as part of the second annual Aging Initiative Workshop at the University of Maine. Speaker of the House Mark Eves will provide opening remarks at 10 a.m. […]
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University of Maine professors Marie Hayes and Craig Mason, along with Ph.D. student Jake Emerson, were quoted in a Bangor Daily News report about the increase of infant deaths in Maine. While the nation’s infant mortality rate is worse than many wealthy countries, it has improved since the 1990s. Meanwhile, Maine’s rate has fallen behind […]
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The Portland Press Herald cited University of Maine research in an article about the effects cruise ships have on the environment and economy, specifically in Portland. Studies by a pair of UMaine professors and more recently, a 2015 survey conducted by a private research firm on behalf a collaboration between the city of Portland and […]
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Research conducted by University of Maine sociology professor Amy Blackstone and UMaine graduate Mahala Stewart was cited in the Pacific Standard magazine article, “How the childfree decide.” Blackstone and Stewart’s recent article in The Family Journal, “There’s More Thinking to Decide: How the Childfree Decide Not to Parent,” engages the topic and extends the scholarly […]
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Mainebiz reported two University of Maine students were awarded grants from the Avangrid Foundation and Fundación Iberdrola España to conduct postgraduate research into energy, the environment and data science. AVANGRID Inc. is the parent company of Central Maine Power and Maine Natural Gas in Maine, as well as other energy companies in New York, Connecticut […]
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The Associated Press cited a paper written by Robert Steneck, a marine biologist at the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, in an article about the dispute over a Swedish proposal to ban imports of live American lobsters into the European Union. According to the AP, Sweden is digging in on the proposal after […]
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A 2011 waste characterization study by the University of Maine School of Economics was cited in a Bangor Daily News article about the increasing popularity of food scrap recovery efforts around the state. The study found that organics — food scraps, leaves and grass and some paper products — account for 43 percent of the […]
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Read transcript Charlotte Quigley is a Ph.D. student at the University of Maine studying marine biology. Her research focuses on alaria (a type of sea vegetable) and how changing water temperatures affect its growth. By studying and testing its genetic structure, Quigley hopes to supply a sustainable, temperature tolerant crop for Maine’s aquaculture future.
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Nature NOW, the blog of the PBS documentary show “Nature,” cited research conducted by Brian Olsen, an associate professor of biology and ecology at the University of Maine, in the post, “Can the saltmarsh sparrow keep its head above water?” According to the article, the tiny coastal bird is rapidly disappearing from the eastern United […]
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