The Portland Press Herald editorial titled “Welfare bills will worsen plight of the most needy,” cites a study by Sandra Butler, a University of Maine social work professor. Butler’s study, “TANF Time Limits and Maine Families: Consequences of Withdrawing the Safety Net,” found 39 percent of the 16,000 people who lost Temporary Assistance for Needy Families because […]
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MPBN will air season three of the Maine EPSCoR produced “Sustainable Maine” series, highlighting the research of Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI), based at UMaine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center. SSI is helping communities solve interconnected economic problems while advancing sustainability science. Information about the MPBN documentary series is online. The broadcast schedule is: Return of […]
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In early October, Bob Steneck sets sail from Christmas Cove, Maine to the Caribbean to research resilience of coral reefs adjacent to the Antilles islands. The professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, who is based at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Maine, is on sabbatical this academic year. With funding from […]
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Reuters produced a video on VolturnUS 1:8, the first grid-connected offshore wind turbine to be deployed off the coast of North America and created by the University of Maine-led DeepCwind Consortium. Habib Dagher, leader of the consortium and director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at UMaine, and Elizabeth Viselli, global communications manager for the […]
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A Kennebec Journal editorial titled “Oversight of Maine lakes shouldn’t falter,” cited information from former University of Maine graduate student Ian McCullough’s study on water clarity in Maine lakes. The study found lake water clarity, particularly in the northeastern and western lake regions, decreased consistently from 2005 to 2010.
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Lad leads team developing instruments to operate in extreme industrial environments.
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Adrienne Leppold, a Ph.D. student in Rebecca Holberton’s Lab of Avian Biology at the University of Maine, spoke with Down East magazine about her research on songbird migration in the Gulf of Maine. Leppold and Holberton are among more than two dozen researchers in the U.S. and Canada who are working together through the Northeast […]
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Former University of Maine graduate student Ian McCullough’s study of water clarity in Maine lakes was cited in a Portland Press Herald story about lake quality decline. The paper covered the Natural Resources Council of Maine’s report titled “Troubled Waters” that indicates programs to protect lakes have been eliminated due to cuts in staffing and […]
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Yahoo Finance, The Sacramento Bee, WLBZ (Channel 2) and Boston.com were among several news organizations to carry an Associated Press report that states despite increasing pressure from lawmakers and environmental groups, lawyers for the University of Maine and Maine Aqua Ventus said the detail of the proposed offshore wind project must be kept secret as […]
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The University of Maine’s National Study on Student Hazing was cited in a News Channel 9 WSYR (Syracuse, N.Y.) report on hazing following the suspension of the men’s lacrosse team at Cornell University and the boy’s cross-country team at Baldwinsville High School in Baldwinsville, N.Y. The UMaine study found 61 percent of male college students […]
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