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UMaine News - Monday, July 14, 2008
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Rice Elected Fellow of International Academy of Wood
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Robert Rice, a professor of wood science
in the University of Maine’s School of Forest Resources,
was recently elected a 2008 fellow of the International
Academy of Wood Science. A UMaine faculty member for 17
years, Rice has published more than 60 research papers on
the physics of wood, many of them involving the human
health and environmental issues related to wood
processing plants. His work also includes research in the
fields of wood energy, heat and mass transfer in wood and
wood-based composites. The International Academy of Wood
Science was founded in Paris in 1966 as a non-profit
organization whose mission is to promote worldwide the
concerted development of wood science by recognizing the
meritorious achievements and high scientific standards of
its elected fellows. |
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UMaine Experts in Growing Season Story |
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Comments from UMaine agriculture experts
Rick Kersbergen, David Yarborough and Donna Coffin were
included in a Saturday Bangor Daily News story looking at
conditions affecting Maine's summer growing season. |
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Fisheries Biologist Notes UMaine Assistance |
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The Saturday Central Maine Morning
Sentinel includes a column written by representatives of
the Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. In the
column fisheries biologist Forrest Bonney notes that
UMaine Prof. Stephen Coghlan and graduate student Paul
Damkot have assisted the department in a research project
related to brook trout. |
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Poverty Report in BDN Story |
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A Monday Bangor Daily News report on a
recent Aroostook County Action Program forum on poverty
in that part of Maine referenced "Poverty in Maine:
2006," an extensive report on the subject created by
UMaine's Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. |
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