Contact: Barbara Murphy, 1-800-287-1482 (in Maine) or (207) 743-6329 SOUTH PARIS — The University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Plant-A-Row for the Hungry Program has set a goal of collecting 125,000 pounds of fresh produce from volunteer gardeners across the state, a significant increase from the 87,319 pounds donated last year to food pantries, shelters and […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine doctoral student Juan Luis Garcia has earned the Geological Society of America’s prestigious J. Hoover Mackin Student Research Award. That society’s Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division provides the annual award. Garcia is a native of Chile studying in UMaine’s Dept. of Earth Sciences. He […]
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Contact: Carol Kim, (207) 581-2803 ORONO — Understanding how cancerous tumors grow. Learning why some people feel pain more acutely than others. Searching for ways to cure vascular diseases. In biomedicine, the focus is on the basic underlying processes — how our bodies work. Greater understanding of disease through biomedical sciences research holds the promise […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at joe.carr@umit.maine.edu ORONO — The University of Maine police department is leading the investigation into the breach of two UMaine computer servers this spring. Sensitive data related to approximately 4,585 students were exposed as a result of these hacker attacks. Compromised files date as far back as 2002. “This is an insidious […]
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Contact: Jon Prichard, (207) 324-2814; Laura Jaquays, (207) 251-4058 SPRINGVALE, Maine — A small but powerful 4-H art program coordinated by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s York County office in Springvale is bringing messages of cheer to patients at York Hospital Oncology Care and the Hospice of York. Jon Prichard, an associate Extension professor, […]
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Contact: Kate Yerxa, (207) 581-3109 ORONO — Think of green baby food, and pureed peas or string beans come to mind. But when Kate Yerxa was asked how people could save money by making their own baby food, the green she saw was dollars. Yerxa, the statewide educator for nutrition and physical activity at University […]
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Contact: Mary Ellen Camire, (207) 581-1627; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — As Maine’s congressional delegation and the Maine Potato Board lobby the USDA to rescind its recent decision to exclude the potato from eligible fruits and vegetables available to WIC program participants, a UMaine food science and human nutrition professor is offering science-based evidence […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571, joe.carr@umit.maine.edu ORONO — The U.S. Department of Energy has announced that it will invest an additional $20 million to develop and test deepwater offshore wind technologies. University of Maine Prof. Habib Dagher credits Sen. Susan Collins’ efforts promote the University of Maine’s pioneering work in this technology development, including […]
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Contact: Irv Kornfield, 581-2548 ORONO — Decomposing carcasses. Sexual assault. Intoxication. The story lines sound like they’re straight out of a prime–time television crime drama, but for students in UMaine professor Irv Kornfield’s Introduction to Forensics course, they are the basis for scientific inquiry. Since its inception in fall 2003, Kornfield’s course has opened students’ […]
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Contact: Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, (207) 581-3124; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — Nutritionists have long known that one of Maine’s most prized and prolific natural resources, the wild blueberry, provides health benefits that we’re still just learning about. The Wild Blueberry Association of North America calls the Maine blueberry “nature’s antioxidant superfruit,” and cites its […]
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