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• New Canadian-American Studies History Published
• New Holiday Light Options Can Cut Electric Bills
• Maine Business School Again Named Among World’s Best
• UMaine Annual Commemorative Ornament Program Benefits Student Organizations
• $2 Million Correll Gift to Boost UMaine Efforts in Energy Research, Graduate Education and Literacy
• UMaine Selected for Membership in Research Organization
• Comedian Bob Saget to Perform at UMaine Dec. 1

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Intertidal invaders
The aliens stowed away in the ballast rock of the great 19th-century sailing ships that brought trade and emigrants from Europe to Nova Scotia.

Once in North America, the rockweed species Fucus serratus and the herbivorous snail Littorina littorea colonized the shores, launching a biological invasion affecting the intertidal community structure in the northwestern Atlantic.

Research

UMaine Professor Researching Way to Make Cancer Detection Easier
A recent discovery by a University of Maine engineering professor and his collaborators is expected to make it easier for doctors to find cancerous tumors and start treatment in the early stages of the disease when it can be most effective.

Student Focus

James Gilmore - Fall 2009
The first time James Gilmore visited the Foster Student Innovation Center, the staff there asked him a single question: What do you want to do with your life?

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