Christopher Richards, director of undergraduate enrollment at the University of Maine, was invited to serve as a member of the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Selection Committee earlier this month. Richards served on a 14-member committee to select the finalists of 2023 National Merit Scholarships from an estimated 15,000 semifinalists. The UMaine alumnus and native of […]
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Tolu Esther Alaba, Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Biological Science and Engineering at the University of Maine, received the Junior Investigator Speaker Award and third place Poster Award at the Berry Health Benefits Symposium (BHBS) Ninth Biennial Conference in Tampa, Florida for her work entitled “Phenolic acids from wild blueberry facilitate wound healing […]
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Onur Apul, a University of Maine assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been inducted into the 2022 Class of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists’ (AEESS) 40 Under 40 Recognition Program. According to AEESS, the program recognizes researchers who have helped advance the fields of environmental science or environmental engineering in […]
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Bruce Hall has been named the Maine delegate to the Council for Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching (CARET). Hall will represent the University of Maine’s Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station and the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture. CARET is a nationwide collaboration that advocates for understanding and support of the food and […]
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Edward Grew, research professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, has helped a team of Chinese and European scientists obtain official recognition for three new minerals discovered as tiny inclusions in corundum (Al2O3) from a chromite mine in Tibet, China. Read more on the School of Earth and […]
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Hollie Adams, assistant professor of English at the University of Maine, has been selected as one of 13 artists selected for Acadia National Park’s Artist-in-Residence Program in 2023. Adams is the author of the novel “Things You’ve Inherited from Your Mother” and the hybrid prose-poetry chapbook “Deliver Me from Swedish Furniture,” which was a finalist […]
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In recent years, health care professionals and patients have become concerned that blood pressure, as traditionally measured in the medical clinic, is not done correctly. That includes blood pressure measurement in a dental office, where it is equally important that it be done correctly, according to University of Maine researchers. Merrill Elias, UMaine emeritus professor […]
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The herd of Holsteins at the University of Maine’s J.F. Witter Teaching and Research Center is among ten best at U.S. colleges and universities, an annual ranking by the Holstein Association says. The 26-cow herd placed third in New England and tied for eighth in the association’s nationwide 2022 Breed Age Average ranking. Breed Age […]
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The Maine Press Association awarded scholarships to three Maine journalism students in January — two of them from the University of Maine. Recipients of 2023 scholarships are Grace Bradley of Orono, a UMaine senior and editor-in-chief of Maine Campus Media; Hope Carroll of Portland, a UMaine junior in the Honors College and opinion contributor to […]
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University of Maine food science professor Mary Ellen Camire has been named the first dedicated editor-in-chief for the journal Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety (CRFSFS). The journal ranks third among more than 140 food science and technology journals worldwide. Camire has served as scientific editor of the journal since 2018. In that […]
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