The National Institutes of Health has awarded $380,000 to researchers at the University of Maine Center on Aging, University of New England (UNE) and The Iris Network to study a falls prevention program for older citizens with vision impairment. Falls among older adults can lead to serious injury, loss of independence or death. The two-year […]
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Aug. 1, the Maine Development Foundation and the University of Maine’s School of Economics released the first of a series of quarterly reports analyzing critical economic indicators in Maine and exploring in detail the reasons for — and impacts of — Maine’s comparatively low worker productivity. Professor Todd Gabe wrote the inaugural report that focuses […]
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Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee, WABI (Channel 5), and Portland Press Herald were among several news organizations to carry an Associated Press article on a nearly $1 million energy grant from the National Science Foundation that was awarded to the University of Maine, Maine Maritime Academy and two partner organizations. The funding will help develop […]
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Robert Steneck, professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine’s Darling Center, and Andrew Pershing, professor in the Gulf of Maine Research Institute at UMaine, were among about 100 scientists, fisheries managers and commercial fishermen to attend an Island Institute-hosted symposium in Portland on climate change and fisheries. Steneck and Pershing […]
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The University of Maine-led offshore wind project and its deployment of the first floating offshore wind turbine in the U.S. was mentioned in a National Geographic blog titled “Getting charged up about blue power.”
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The Washington Post, Boston Herald, Wall Street Journal, Newsday and Portland Press Herald were among several news organizations to carry an Associated Press article on research being conducted by the University of Maine, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Connecticut and University of Delaware on the effects of Superstorm Sandy on plant […]
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FIS, the website of Fish Information and Services, and the Bangor Daily News are among the latest organizations to report on research by Noah Oppenheim, a marine biology graduate student at the University of Maine, that suggests climate change is creating cannibalism among lobsters. Oppenheim came to the discovery after capturing on an underwater camera […]
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University of Maine researchers are seeking 50 volunteers to eat fresh Maine wild blueberries grown under four different types of agricultural practices, including organic. The taste test takes place 3–5:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 31 in the Consumer Testing Center at 168 Hitchner Hall on the UMaine campus. Volunteers will receive $5 cash for participation in […]
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The Associated Press and Foster’s Daily Democrat reported on a $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation for the University of Maine and University of New Hampshire to conduct a three-year study to research how beaches and shellfish beds are closed due to bacteria. The project, known as the New England Sustainability Consortium, is […]
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A Bangor Daily News editorial titled “Turn up the volume on compromise” cites a study by Todd Gabe, University of Maine economics professor. Gabe’s study found Bangor’s Waterfront Concerts have generated more than $30 million in local spending in the first three years.
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