The University of Maine’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs invites staff who support research activities at UMaine to attend the launch of the Research Administrators’ Network (RAN) from 2–4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12 in Wells Conference Center. RAN aims to promote networking; share information, expertise and best practices; identify and develop tools and resources […]
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Throughout January, the Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Morning Edition” will feature a series of interviews focused on the challenges faced by Maine’s increasing population of older adults and how public policy is addressing them. Guests will be authors who contributed to the Maine Policy Review’s “Special Issue on Aging.” The publication is produced by the […]
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Linda Silka, a senior fellow at the University of Maine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, wrote the article, “What Maine can learn from how Lowell, Mass. welcomed immigrants, rebuilt its city,” for a Bangor Daily News series on how to improve Maine’s economy. In the article, Silka cited UMaine research that has […]
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A 1998 study conducted by the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine was cited in a CBC News report about whether cooking lobsters with rubber bands on their claws affects the taste of the meat. Through its study, the Lobster Institute concluded the rubber bands didn’t make a difference in taste, according to the […]
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Paul Rawson, a marine scientist at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a Philippine Star article about blue mussel research conducted by Michael Rice, a professor at the University of Rhode Island. Blue mussels along the Brazilian and Colombian coasts of South America traversing the Panama Canal have reached coastal waters in the Pangasinan […]
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Research conducted last year by a group of graduate students in the University of Maine’s social work program was mentioned in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “One way to address Maine’s drug epidemic: Maximize treatment access we already have.” The students reached out to the physicians in Maine who are listed by the U.S. Substance […]
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The University of Maine Center on Aging was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article about a grassroots effort to help the state’s senior citizens live at home. At Home Downeast began operating in 2012 as a program of the nonprofit Washington Hancock Community Agency, and serving the towns of Surry, Blue Hill, Brooklin, Deer […]
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Bruce Segee, the Henry R. and Grace V. Butler Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maine; Craig Mason, a UMaine professor of education; and Ami Gaspar, an advanced computing outreach specialist with IT and the Maine LearnToMod project manager, were recent guests on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Maine Calling” radio […]
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Mainebiz reported Congress on Friday passed a $1.8 trillion package of spending measures and tax legislation that was then signed into law by President Obama. The bill includes a five-year extension of the New Markets Tax Credit program, which encourages investment in low-income areas, according to the article. In a press release, Sen. Susan Collins, […]
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Recent research by Jonathan Borkum, an adjunct associate professor of psychology at the University of Maine, was cited in the Boston Globe article, “On the pathway to preventing migraines.” Borkum scanned through more than 2,000 scientific studies about migraine triggers, then focused on a subset of about 30 key papers on how given triggers, such […]
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