Mary Ellen Camire, professor of food science and human nutrition, was an expert source in an Ars Technica story about a recent CBC piece that indicated the chicken in Subway sandwiches could be about 50 percent chicken. “The CBC’s story would not dissuade me from getting a chicken sandwich at Subway if I wanted one,” […]
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University of Maine paleoecologist Jacquelyn Gill and her students are working with the University of California to uncover fossils of prehistoric plants and animals preserved in tar pits from the ice age, WVII (Channel 7) reported. “We have a lot of these ice age survivors, things like squirrels and rabbits and coyotes. And those persisted […]
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News outlets worldwide reported on research that identifies a group of new minerals that formed either principally or exclusively through human activities. Edward Grew, a research professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences collaborated on the research team led by Robert Hazen of the Carnegie Institution for Science. The results underscore humans’ impact […]
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Kelley Strout, assistant professor of nursing, is the lead author of “Interprofessional Mass Casualty Incident Simulation Design Protocol to Prepare Prelicensure Nursing Students to Respond to a Disaster,” in the journal Nurse Educator. The simulation on campus in April 2016 was designed to train nursing students and first responders. It featured a simulated bus accident […]
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A 2014 study by University of Maine economics professor Todd Gabe was cited in a Bangor Daily News article about contract negotiations between the city and the company that manages Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion. The city has been negotiating what at first was described as a 10-year contract with Waterfront Concerts, according to the article. Gabe’s […]
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The University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center will host a talk March 1 by Jonathan White, author of “Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean,” The Free Press reported. The talk will take place at noon in Brooke Hall on the lower waterfront campus in Walpole.
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The Morning Sentinel cited a University of Maine study in the article, “Some central Maine farms already producing maple syrup.” The sap has already been flowing for some central Maine farmers, but others are holding off tapping trees as maple sugaring season ramps up, the article states. Maine’s maple syrup industry, which is the third-largest […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported University of Maine graduate students have been leading a monthly discussion at the Old Town Public Library on different fish found in the area. “It’s just an opportunity for the public to come learn a little bit about what students at UMaine are doing and learn a little bit about some […]
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Mainebiz, The Associated Press and Boston.com reported School of Marine Sciences researchers at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole have been testing a new technique for figuring out the age of lobsters. Currently, a lobster’s age is estimated by size, but it’s a rough estimate because a lobster’s growth rate is affected […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article about a new food studies program at the University of Southern Maine that began in January. The program aims to teach students how to tackle the scientific, environmental, social, economic and political questions facing food systems using an interdisciplinary approach, according to the […]
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