A five-part series by Voice of America News about how climate change and rising temperatures are affecting Africa includes an extensive interview with University of Maine Climate Change Institute Director Paul Mayewski, who provided perspective on the increasing pace of climate change globally. South Africa is about to host an international conference on climate change.
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Prof. George Criner of the UMaine School of Economics and senior economics major Travis Blackmer were interviewed for a WLBZ television story about an extensive project analyzing the content municipal trash in 17 Maine communities. Initial results suggest that 20 percent of the discarded trash could have been recycled, saving those municipalities significant amounts of […]
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ORONO, Maine – University of Maine geochemist Amanda Olsen is part of a national research team that is starting a database to help scientists understand the speed at which environmental reactions take place.
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Len Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging, was interviewed for a special Channel 5 (WABI) report Monday on the problem of older adults becoming addicted to prescription medications. Mixing them with alcohol or homeopathic remedies, the wrong combination of pills, or even taking them at the wrong time, can lead a […]
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Karen Hutchins, a University of Maine Ph.D. candidate in Communication and Journalism and a graduate research assistant for Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative, was recognized by the National Science Foundation for her research poster on partnerships between universities and municipalities. That recognition came at NSF’s National EPSCoR Conference in October.
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UMaine’s Office of Industrial Cooperation was mentioned in a MaineBiz magazine story about the Maine Clean Tech Corridor, a collaborative campaign to encourage clean tech investment and to attract to Maine small to medium-sized clean tech companies that cannot easily or affordably access necessary services elsewhere in New England. Tom Brubaker, the head of the […]
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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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