Vivian Chi-Hua Wu, a professor of microbiology and food safety at the University of Maine, was quoted in a DNA India article that listed seven health benefits of blueberries. One of the listed benefits of the superfood is that it improves digestion. “Addition of wild blueberries to diet can alter the balance of gut microbe […]
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The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has upgraded to the university’s new website template. The University of Maine Diversity Leadership Institute, Maine Food and Agriculture Center, Leadership Studies, Peer Relations Lab and Leslie Lab: Marine Conservation Science also recently upgraded. The new umaine.edu and related pages debuted in summer 2015. For more information on […]
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Mainebiz published an article on a science of brewing course being offered by Jason Bolton of University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Brian Perkins of the School of Food and Agriculture. They developed FSN FSN 121 Brewing with Food Science three years ago. The undergraduate course is so popular that enrollment is capped at 80 […]
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A 2014 study by Sandra Butler, a University of Maine social work professor, was cited in The Daily Signal article, “How Maine’s time limit on welfare pushed one woman to pull herself out of poverty.” Since Maine reinstated the 60-month lifetime limit for benefits, which took effect in 2012, the number of cases in the […]
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University of Maine archaeologist Dan Sandweiss was quoted in an article in “Science” about stone tools and butchered mastodon bones dating to 14,550 years ago being found at the bottom of a Florida river. That’s about 1,000 years before scientists previously thought humans were in the New World. “It’s still a limited number of really […]
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A report created by the Maine Spruce Budworm Task Force was cited in a WLBZ (Channel 2) report on the next cyclical infestation of the pest that could cause severe economic damage to the state’s forest products industry. Described as the most damaging forest insect in North America, the spruce budworm is already killing trees […]
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Following a widely reported collaborative study that found eating chocolate improves cognitive function, researchers at the University of Maine, University of South Australia and Luxembourg Institute of Health have published additional research to determine potential causes. The initial research involved 968 participants ages 23–98 from the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study. Participants who ate chocolate at least […]
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When Laura Garey wades into tidal marshes at sunrise to survey saltmarsh sparrows, the University of Maine graduate student also spies deflated balloons, trash and pollutants. These reservoirs at the intersection of land and sea also are increasingly being damaged by coastal development, sea-level rise and more frequent storm surges. All of which makes it […]
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The Associated Press and Maine Public Broadcasting Network reported on research conducted by Scott Morello, a visiting researcher at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Morello found mussel larvae swim toward odors from adult mussels, and swim away from odors from predators, including green crabs and dog whelks. According to his research, […]
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An international research team led by Heather Leslie found fishermen’s decisions are shaped by differences in both natural and social environments. The team discovered the community with stronger fishing rights exerted more control over fishermen’s decisions than communities with weaker rights, and did so in a way consistent with the impacts of climate variability on […]
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