Contact: Paul Mayewski, (207) 581-3019 or paul.mayewski@maine.edu University of Maine volcanologist Andrei Kurbatov and glaciologist Paul Mayewski, along with 21 other scientists, coauthored a scientific paper released late last month that details the discovery of a layer of nanodiamonds in the Greenland ice sheet, which has added to a controversy in the scientific community about […]
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UMaine’s Lobster Institute Executive Director Robert Bayer tells WABI the blue lobster recently hauled in by a Belfast lobsterman could be one in up to five million.
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Newsday talks to UMaine marine archaeologist Warren Riess about some of the items found in an old ship he excavated earlier this summer from the World Trade Center site in New York City.
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UMaine research scientist Andrew Pershing’s research on carbon sequestering in whales was posted on the science website Physorg.com. Pershing says whaling and fishing has altered the ability of oceans to store and sequester carbon.
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Contact: Charlie Slavin, Dean of the Honors College, 207.581.3262, slavin@honors.umaine.edu Keith Hutchison, Professor of Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, 207.581.2827, keithh@maine.edu ORONO — The University of Maine Honors College and the Maine IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) have announced five recipients of Honors Thesis Fellowships of $2,575, and one Junior Year Research Award of $1,030. The […]
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Contact: Ed Grew, (207) 581-2169 ORONO — Charles V. Guidotti, professor in the UMaine Department of Earth Sciences from 1981 to his death in 2005, has been honored by having a new mineral, guidottiite, named after him. The name was approved by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names of the International Mineralogical Association, […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine and Bangor Gas Company have a new agreement that will expand the use of natural gas to heat more campus buildings. The agreement involves transferring ownership of UMaine-owned natural gas piping facilities to Bangor Gas. In conjunction with that transfer, natural gas service […]
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John Diamond, executive director of external affairs, has been named associate vice chancellor for university relations at the University of Arkansas. Diamond is a Bangor native and UMaine graduate who previously served as UMaine’s director of public affairs. He is also a former UMaine faculty member, currently completing a UMaine Ph.D. in communication and public […]
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The School of Performing Arts is holding auditions today, Sept. 7, and Wednesday, Sept. 8, at 6-9 p.m. in Hauck Auditorium for its next production, “The Boys Next Door,” directed by Sandra Hardy of the theater faculty. Callbacks are scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 9. Interested actors should bring a prepared comic monologue. Audition materials also […]
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UMaine women’s soccer opened its home season Sept. 5 with a 3-2 overtime win against Sacred Heart, with Maddie Hill, Kelsey Wilson and Courtney Harnais scoring, with assists from Carolyne Nellis. A UMaine news release has additional detail.
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