The Bangor Daily News reported on a Bowdoin college student’s research on American eels in the Merrymeeting Bay estuary under a fellowship with his professor and Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative. SSI is a partnership between the University of Maine, University of Southern Maine and other higher education institutions that aims to help Maine increase economic […]
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Environmental Leader reported the company Tom’s of Maine is working with researchers at the University of Maine and the Sustainable BioPlastics Council of Maine to develop a polylactic acid packaging that could be made using waste potatoes that are produced in Maine.
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The Bangor Daily News article “Gov. LePage touts potential for ‘microbusiness’ growth in Maine” cited research compiled by James McConnon, an economics professor at the University of Maine. The information states of the 133,000 microbusinesses in Maine, four out of five operate with no employees other than the business owner.
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Ed Grew, who has a history of discovering minerals throughout the world, was invited to collaborate with an international team of scientists in the finding and classifying of a new boron mineral. Geologists at the University of California, Riverside discovered a cubic boron nitride mineral in the southern Tibetan mountains of China. The mineral, named […]
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network spoke with University of Maine doctoral student Kristine Hoffmann about her research on the blue-spotted salamander. Hoffmann is studying breeding ecology, habitat selection and life histories in an effort to conserve the amphibians.
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A quarterly jobs economic report released by the Maine Development Foundation and the University of Maine’s School of Economics was the focus of the Bangor Daily News editorial “Where are Maine’s high-paying jobs?” The study found the productivity of Maine workers is one of the worst in the nation due to the state’s rural nature. […]
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Alaska Dispatch reported on a collaborative ice core-drilling project in Alaska’s Denali National Park by the University of Maine, Dartmouth University and the University of New Hampshire. UMaine researchers include climate change scientist Karl Kreutz, Research Assistant Professor Sean Birkel and graduate students Seth Campbell and Tim Godaire. The project aims to help researchers better […]
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Edward Grew, a research professor in the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences, was one of several researchers to aid geologists at the University of California, Riverside in their discovery of a new mineral, which they named qingsongite. Australian Mining and UCR Today carried reports.
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ThinkProgress spoke with Robert Steneck, professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, and Andrew Pershing, professor in the Gulf of Maine Research Institute at UMaine, for the article “Lobster bubble: Maine’s lobster boom, and why experts predict a dramatic bust.” Steneck and Pershing spoke about the warming temperatures […]
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University of Maine, Maine Maritime Academy and partners receive $983,997 from the National Science Foundation for the creation of a unique offshore wind-wave generating system.
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