University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management specialist Jim Dill was interviewed by Boston’s Channel 4 (WBZ) television station for a news report on the threat to blueberries and other soft-skinned fruit by a pest new to Maine and New England, the Drosophila Suzukii fly, which is far more damaging to crops than traditionally common […]
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Robert Milardo, professor of family relations at the University of Maine, was interviewed for a Lewiston Sun Journal story about a nationwide trend in the rising numbers of unmarried mothers and decline of married mothers. Milardo estimated some 50 percent of unmarried mothers are living with a partner and some will become single mothers if […]
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News organizations covered Saturday’s graduation ceremonies at the University of Maine and profiled several graduating seniors, including triplets from Belfast who received UMaine degrees, and a student from Rockland who overcame homelessness and dire personal circumstances to graduate with high honors. The Chicago Tribune also published the latter article. Local TV stations airing features about […]
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University of Maine mechanical engineering professor Mick Peterson spent the weekend at the Churchill Downs racetrack in Kentucky consulting with Kentucky Derby race managers and testing the status of the track in the days and hours before the 138th running of the world-famous horse race. Peterson, who is “widely considered the world’s foremost racing surfaces […]
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Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of blog posts from UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, which is currently conducting fieldwork in the Alaska Range. Seth Campbell, a University of Maine graduate student pursuing his Ph.D. through UMaine’s Climate Change Institute and Department of Earth Sciences, is leading an expedition with several other researchers […]
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University of Maine President Paul Ferguson has established a new Faculty Liaison Program with the Department of Athletics in which faculty members volunteer to serve as academic mentors, role models and advocates for each of UMaine’s intercollegiate athletic teams.
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One of the largest classes in University of Maine history graduated today in the 210th Commencement ceremonies at Harold Alfond Sports Arena. This academic year, 2,467 students — 1,875 undergraduate and 592 graduate students — earned degrees from UMaine.
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The business and technology magazine website CIO, the California-based Campus Technology, Mainebiz and the Maine Public Broadcasting Network carried reports about the Gig.U high-speed Internet broadband collaboration announced this week among UMaine, GWI Inc. Internet provider and 36 other leading research institutions across the country. The collaboration will provide Maine’s first commercial and residential gigabit […]
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Jon Ippolito, a member of the UMaine new media faculty, was interviewed for a recent Channel 7 (WVII) news report on a patent Nokia has obtained for a vibrating tattoo to silently alert cell phone users to phone calls or messages. Ippolito discusses the desire for many people today to remain connected to communications technologies […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried an article about University of Maine senior Samantha Paradis of Frenchville, who will graduate Saturday summa cum laude with degrees in nursing and psychology. Her mother Stacy Paradis will receive a degree in rural public safety May 12 at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, while her sister Sarah […]
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