UMaine researchers explore the possible use of a newly discovered pathogenic fungus to help scale back invasive fire ant populations in Maine.
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David Yarborough, wild blueberry specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension was quoted in an Ellsworth American article about cooling temperatures and the affect they have on blueberry crop pollination by keeping temperature-sensitive bees from pollinating blueberries. “If they had adequate bees, they probably did OK,” said Yarborough. “But I would say conditions are […]
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According to an article that appeared in Boothbay Register, Noah Oppenheim, graduate student at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, was recently awarded a Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship.“I am humbled and grateful for the opportunity to pursue a career in marine affairs at the federal level through the Knauss Fellowship,” said Oppenheim. Rick Wahle, […]
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As outlined in the Bangor Daily News editorial, three UMaine social work students — Mikala Thompson, Alaina Crowley and Daniel Cohen — were cited for conducting a phone survey earlier this year, in which they contacted 112 physicians who were included on the Maine State Opioid Treatment Authority list of Suboxone providers. The students wanted […]
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Mary Jane Perry’s research was included in a list of 10 things people might not know about the ocean that the National Science Foundation compiled in celebration of World Oceans Day on June 8. Perry is interim director of the Darling Marine Center and professor in the School of Marine Sciences. Her research appears as […]
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Noah Oppenheim, a graduate student at the University of Maine Darling Center in Walpole, Maine, has been awarded a Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship. The one-year paid fellowship provides a unique educational experience to graduate students interested in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources, and in national policy decisions affecting those resources. It matches graduate students […]
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Amy Blackstone, University of Maine sociology professor, was referenced and interviewed in Pacific Standard Magazine as an expert sociologist who studies the child-free. Blackstone has interviewed dozens of people who’ve opted out of parenthood, in which she found that at least half of the child-free subjects reported tensions between themselves and their friends that had […]
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Tracy Vassiliev, a middle school science teacher at the James E. Doughty School in Bangor, and David Neivandt, a University of Maine professor, associate vice president for research and graduate studies, and director of the Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, co-wrote Let Them Eat Cake … OE-Cake!, which was published in the April/May […]
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The Bangor Daily News and WCYY 94.3 FM reported the Maine Sea Grant Program at the University of Maine partnered with O’Chang Comics to produce a short video on lobsters and climate change. The video, which was based on the UMaine report “Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update,” explains how rising sea temperatures in southern New […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported that University of Maine students and researchers are studying the science of tree ring dating during the 25th annual North American Dendroecological Fieldweek (NADEF) in Acadia National Park. NADEF is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and aims to train students in dendrochronology, or the scientific method of dating […]
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