Comments from Prof. Bob Bayer of UMaine’s Lobster Institute were included in a Monday Portland Press Herald story about discussions relative to certifying the Maine lobster fishery as being sustainable. A London-based organization provides certifications of this nature, and the possibility has generated controversy among those involved in the Maine lobster industry.
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The Jan. 9 Maine Sunday Telegram included a story previewing the new exhibition at the UMaine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. The new exhibition, which opens on Friday, features sculpture, paintings and photographs. It will continue through March 26.
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The Bangor Daily News has an op-ed piece written by UMaine Professor Emeritus Richard Jagels about the Penobscot River restoration and removal of dams. Jagels, an emeritus professor of forest biology, writes of the benefit of local groups working together to open up nearly 1,000 miles of river habitat to improve migration and reproductive potential […]
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Bangor-based WLBZ reports on work in the lab of UMaine professors Ray Fort and Barbara Cole to extract a starter molecule of antiflu drug Tamiflu from pine needles and other conifer trees.
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Mary Ellen Camire, professor in the Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition and fellow in the Institute of Food Technologists, was interviewed recently for an article about hangovers posted this week on the MSN Health & Fitness website. For those who do suffer from hangovers, Camire extols the virtue of orange juice and bananas […]
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Contact: Sarah J. Nelson (207) 581-3454 or sarah.nelson@umit.maine.edu The University of Maine is offering students a chance to gain training and service in large landscape conservation through a new internship opportunity. The Acadian Internship in Regional Conservation and Stewardship is a 6-week summer course and internship program with the goals of training students, providing hands-on […]
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Gregorio Fuentes, a member of the UMaine mathematics faculty for 22 years beginning in 1967, died on Wednesday Jan. 5 at his Orono home. He was 86 years old. Fuentes, who was born in Spain, is survived by his wife Maria — a UMaine part-time faculty member in Spanish — and four children. He was […]
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Contact: Theresa McMannus, (207) 581-2441 Susan Gardner, associate professor of higher education in the College of Education and Human Development, has been selected to receive the 2011 Outstanding Contribution to Knowledge award from the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), a national Washington, D.C.-based organization dedicated to supporting efforts by educators and others to maximize college […]
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ORONO — Members of the UMaine and surrounding communities are invited to join Maine Gov. Paul LePage and U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins today at 2 p.m. in the Collins Center for the Arts to honor and welcome home from the Middle East 152 Maine Army National Guard members of the Brewer-based Company […]
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The website Physorg.com posted information about a UMaine study that finds warning signs of depression in young romance. UMaine Doctoral Research Fellow Jessica Fales says adolescents and young adults who excessively seek reassurance in their romantic relationships are at an increased risk for depression.
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