Contact: Beth Calder, (207) 581-2791 ORONO — The season is here for consumers to take their pick from the bounty of fresh, locally grown produce at farmers markets. To help ensure proper food handling practices by farmers and vendors, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Food Science Specialist Beth Calder has compiled a fact sheet. A […]
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Contact: Deb Eckart, (207) 255-3345 MACHIAS, Maine — For many older adults, a fear of falling can steadily decrease their physical activity, well-being and independence. At a minimum, their quality of life is jeopardized. “Falling is a fact of life. As we age, it’s just what happens to us,” says Deb Eckart, a University of […]
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Contact: Pete Elias, (207) 581-2097; George Manlove (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — According to a new study led by University of Maine psychologists and epidemiologists, high blood pressure is indirectly related to lowered physical ability by way of lowered cognition. Professor Pete Elias (Merrill F. Elias) and colleagues have established the relationships using a comprehensive […]
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Contact: Joe Carr, UMaine, at (207) 581-3571 Tom Moore, Cerealus President (207) 504-0374 or tmoore@cerealus.com ORONO — The University of Maine and Cerealus Holdings, LLC, a Waterville-based product development and technology commercialization company, have received a patent for an innovation that can provide a sustainable alternative to traditional food packaging materials. Known as Holdout (TM), […]
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Contact: Betsy Arntzen, (207) 581-4225 ORONO — For the first time in recent Killam Fellowship history, the University of Maine is the only North American university to have three qualified undergraduate students accepted as 2010 Killam fellows, a Canadian-United States exchange program that awards $10,000 scholarships to study at a Canadian university. The students are […]
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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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