WVII recently interviewed University of Maine Advanced Manufacturing Center Director John Belding about a new medical device, an electronic tuning fork, developed by Orono podiatrist Dr. Todd O’Brien and staff and students at the AMC. O’Brien intends to have the device mass-produced and available for physicians and also diabetics, whose foot sensitivity often is measured […]
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Channel 7 (WVII) television news Tuesday evening featured the new special issue of the Maine Policy Review, a 248-page compilation of essays, articles and research about food and food systems in Maine, recently published by the UMaine Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. Ann Acheson, researcher at the center and editor of the special issue, was […]
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ORONO — The University of Maine’s Margaret Chase Policy Center has published a special issue of its Maine Policy Review, a 248-page assessment of Maine’s food and food systems, ranging from economics, energy and the environment to hunger, health and nutrition.
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Prominent Portland attorney Jeffrey A. Thaler has been appointed University of Maine Visiting Professor of Energy Law, Policy and Ethics for a two-year period beginning Aug. 29, 2011 “Jeff Thaler is an acknowledged expert in this field, and he will be instrumental to our efforts as we further develop renewable energy academic programming, research and […]
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A University of Maine workshop, scheduled for July 21-23, will focus on the DIR®/Floortime™ model, which offers a comprehensive framework that allows therapists, parents, and educators to construct an intervention program tailored to the unique challenges and strengths of each child with developmental challenges, including autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities.
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UMaine Dept. of Electrical and Computer engineering doctoral student Abolfazl Razi recently won the best paper award at CANEUS/IEEE International Fly By Wireless Conference in Montreal. His paper, on Interference Reduction in Passive Wireless Sensor Networks, was chosen from a field of 38 entries.
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Assistant professor of anthropology and climate change Gregory Zaro and a colleague from Texas Tech University have received a grant of nearly $17,000 from the National Geographic Society to fund research into the abandonment of one of the many great ancient Maya cities of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras.
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News featured a story about UMaine research involving Prof. Steve Coghlan, a freshwater fisheries ecology expert, graduate student Rob Hogg and their colleagues. Based at a site on Brewer’s Sedgeunkedunk Stream, the researchers are studying sea lamprey and their impact on stream ecosystems.
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Maine Public Radio has posted online a recording of UMaine Prof. Paul Mayewski’s March talk, “Climate Change and the Role of Humans.” The statewide network broadcast the talk last Friday. Mayewski is director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute.
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The June 26 Maine Sunday Telegram includes an opinion column, “Offshore wind has role in Maine’s future,” written by UMaine School of Economics Prof. Mario Teisl, in collaboration with his faculty colleagues Caroline Noblet, Shannon McCoy and Gary Hunt.
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