Rick Kersbergen of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty is the lead source for a Bangor Daily News story looking at the impact of the summer’s dry weather on Maine’s August hay crop. Kersbegen, who estimates that 30 to 40 percent of Maine is experiencing drought, notes that corn and other “shallow-rooted” crops are also feeling […]
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University of Maine Sports Hall of Fame to induct five on Sept. 24.
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Comments from Prof. Gayle Zydlewski of the UMaine School of Marine Science are included in a Wednesday Maine Public Radio story reporting on advances in technology developed by Manie-based Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC). Zydlewski is part of the team working with ORPC to assess the impact of the company’s underwater power turbine on the […]
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Contact: Kylie Cole (kylie.cole@umit.maine.edu) ORONO — The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s research initiatives will benefit from a University of Maine fundraising event scheduled for Sunday Sept. 26. The annual Out of the Darkness Community Walk is set to begin at 2 p.m., with registration starting at 1 p.m. Staff from the UMaine Counseling Center […]
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Contact: John Rebar, 581-2811; John Jemison, 581-3241 ORONO — UMaine Cooperative Extension professor and water quality and soil specialist John Jemison has been awarded a yearlong University of Maine System (UMS) Trustee Professorship. Qualification criteria for a UMS Trustee Professorship includes the approval of a research proposal that will have significant impact, contribute to an […]
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The website www.renewableenergyworld.com reports on the successes of a UMaine project in Cobscook Bay near Eastport, Maine. Ocean Renewable Power Company, which has partnered with UMaine on the project, announced Aug. 18 that its Beta Power System, the largest ocean energy “power plant” ever installed in U.S. waters, has successfully generated grid-compatible power from tidal […]
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Contact: Margaret Nagle at (207) 581-3745 The Dalai Lama holds that compassion — concern for the well-being of others — leads to happiness. Now a new study has found that compassion may also have health benefits in the form of stress reduction for women. The study involving 59 women found that those who demonstrated high […]
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Maine Public Radio broadcast a Tuesday news story about Weight Management 101, a for-credit UMaine course that starts this fall. The UMaine course is based on a University of Vermont program called VTrim. The story includes comments from Doug Matthews, the UMaine Ph.D. student who will teach the course.
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Contact: Margaret Nagle at (207) 581-3745 The six-state New England region has more than 33 million acres of forestland — a greater wooded cover than has existed in the region in almost two centuries. But recent years have witnessed a reversal of this trend in all the states with a new wave of “hard deforestation” […]
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Contact: Lisa Morin, (207) 581-4194 ORONO — The University of Maine Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism and First and Second Year Programs are sponsoring the first-ever UMaine Welcome Weekend Day of Service on the afternoon of Aug. 28. Occurring on the first week that students arrive at UMaine — Aug. 27-Sept. 3 — the […]
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