The Bangor Daily News advanced a project from the University of Maine McGillicuddy Humanities Center to develop a centralized digital portal that will improve access to Wabanaki historical and cultural resources and archival collections.
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The County highlighted a virtual information session the University of Maine Center on Aging and Aroostook Agency on Aging hosted to discuss how cities and towns in Aroostook County can join AARP’s Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities. “It’s about making sure people of all ages feel welcome and engaged and have their needs met,” […]
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Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) and Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center (TIDC), at the University of Maine, testified on May 13 during the Congressional hearing titled Rethinking Disaster Recovery and Resiliency, Part I: Protecting Our Nation’s Transportation Systems. Dagher spoke before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban […]
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University of Maine researchers are participating in a monthlong research voyage in the North Atlantic Ocean to investigate the degree to which the visual characteristics of the upper ocean captured by satellites reveal information about plankton communities residing there, the amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere they fix, and the amount of carbon they […]
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The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant of more than $59,000 to the University of Maine’s McGillicuddy Humanities Center to support development of a centralized digital portal that will improve access to Wabanaki historical and cultural resources and archival collections currently distributed across UMaine and, in the future, to incorporate collections curated […]
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University of Maine researchers are developing a forest landscape model to monitor sources of carbon in the Acadian Forest Region in the northeastern U.S. and maritime Canada, as well as any changes in them. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded $940,308 for the three-year project from researchers in the Center for Research on […]
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The Portland Press Herald spoke with Susanne Lee, a faculty fellow at the University of Maine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, about a partnership with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection seeking to develop a statewide campaign that will reduce the amount of food waste being sent to landfills. Centralmaine.com shared the […]
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Cindy Isenhour, a University of Maine associate professor, spoke with the Associated Press and New Hampshire Public Radio’s WBUR about donations of unusable items to charity thrift shops. WCVB (Channel 5 in Boston), WPLG (Channel 10 in Miami), the Portland Press Herald, The Middletown Press, The Salem News and the Seattle Times shared the AP story.
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Amalia Harrington, a Maine Sea Grant marine Extension associate at the University of Maine, collaborated with other scientists in the National Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative (ALI) to publish a report detailing how warming waters impact lobsters. The researchers compiled a suite of recently published scientific articles and made the information accessible to the nonscientific community. “A Fishery in […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot shared a University of Maine news release highlighting research findings suggesting that the sea ice cover in the Southern Hemisphere has exhibited seasonal variability for millennia. Dominic Winski, a UMaine research assistant professor, and Karl Kreutz, a UMaine professor, studied the chemistry of a 54,000-year-old ice core sampled from the South […]
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