Prof. Hemant Pendse will give a presentation, “Forest Bioproducts — why now, why in Maine,” at the next Research Cafe, presented by the UMaine Vice President for Research office. The session is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 10 at 4 p.m. in Fogler Library’s University Club. Pendse is director of UMaine’s Forest Bioproducts Institute (FBRI) and […]
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Marcella Sorg, a forensic anthropologist in UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center who researches issues related to substance abuse, commented in a Saturday Portland Press Herald report about Maine’s problems related to people with painkiller addictions. The story, by Press Herald reporter John Richardson, was the first in a six-part series.
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Prof. Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute at UMaine was quoted in a Fishermen’s Voice news story challenging the assertions published in a recent Boston Globe report on the business of processing Maine lobster. The Fishermen’s Voice report provides perspectives from Bayer and others in the lobstering industry describing the business relationships between […]
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The Huffington Post features a blog entry based on research conducted by UMaine Prof. Sandra Caron and her former student, Nicole Proulx. In a 2006 study, Caron and Proulx looked at marriages where the wife is at least ten years older than the husband.
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UMaine’s Faculty Research Funds Committee will review submissions for the Regular Faculty Research Funds Awards and the Scholarly Materials and Equipment Awards beginning November 18, 2011. Those who are interested can find information on the guidelines for submission, forms and due dates online. The program is open to tenured, tenure-eligible and soft-money faculty.
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Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell will be at the University of Maine on Thursday Oct. 13 to participate in a lecture event on communication between scientists and the public. Free and open to the public, it begins at 12 noon at UMaine’s Wells Conference Center. Those interested in attending are asked to reserve a ticket […]
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Comments from Prof. Lenard Kaye, director of UMaine’s Center on Aging, were included in a Maine Sunday Telegram story about Maine’s efforts to safely dispose of unwanted prescription drugs. A return program is effective but expensive, because there are no approved incineration facilities in Maine. State officials are investigating the possibility of a composting process […]
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Jonathan Paul, who recently completed a neuroscience Ph.D. in the UMaine Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, has received the outstanding dissertation award from the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP). Paul, who finished his UMaine degree in August, is in an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas Medical Branch Maternal-Fetal Center. As the […]
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Maine Public Broadcasting Network has produced “Sustainable Maine,” two half-hour television programs focusing on sustainability science in Maine. Several UMaine experts will appear in the programs which, as noted in an MPBN news release, detail “a new way of combining biophysical sciences with social science and economics to study Maine’s changing landscape, and how to […]
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Prof. Karl Kreutz of the UMaine Climate Change Institute was quoted in a Nature story about the fate of a large collection or Arctic ice cores held by the Canadian government. Scientists who work with the collection differ on the extent to which it’s future is threatened by budget cuts, but Kreutz says he believes […]
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