News Releases

Sculpture Symposium Announces Sculptor-Site Matches

UMaine campus to feature works from Taiwan, New Zealand and Maine artists.

Ancient Rocks Provide Critical Clues About Modern Earthquakes

Student’s research suggests assumptions about faults may need to be reevaluated.

Study Finds Humble People are the Most Helpful to Others

Humility trumps arrogance when it comes to offering assistance to others.

The Race is on to Ensure Horse Track Safety

Racing Surfaces Testing Laboratory founder Michael “Mick” Peterson has been contracting with track owners and racing industry leaders to test track surfaces, both natural and synthetic.

Study Identifies a Hormone that May Help Hibernating Bears Avoid Bone Loss

A hormone that plays a role in regulating body weight may be a key to understanding how hibernating bears can remain inactive for so long and not experience bone loss.

Loon Lakes

Research explores how lakes affected by climate change could impact distributions of the iconic northern birds.

Fatal Beech Weather

Maine’s Beech trees have been under attack for decades by beech bark disease that typically appears as disfiguring cankers on a tree species that’s supposed to have a smooth and silvery bark.

Gig.U Network Will Bring Gigabit Internet Speeds to UMaine, Orono, Old Town

Installation of Maine’s first gigabit Internet network commercially available to business and residential customers has begun in the Old Town and Orono communities surrounding the University of Maine.

JAMA Editorial Focuses on Prescription Opiate Abuse Epidemic in Newborns

As the national epidemic of opiate abuse and addiction continues to swell, the social and financial burden of treating infants born to drug-addicted mothers grows, too.   The current issue of the “Journal of the American Medical Association” features an editorial co-written by University of Maine psychology professor Marie Hayes.

Study Finds Maine’s Golf Industry Generated $270 Million in 2011

Activity at Maine’s 144 golf courses, along with tourism-related spending by out-of-state golfers, generated a $270 million statewide economic contribution in 2011, according to research by University of Maine economists Todd Gabe and James McConnon.

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